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Camden BLASTBEAT Concert/SemiFinals*****

1 month ago

//This Time I'm writing a Blog on my space 1st- get myself updated abit then move on with the others to the FM page where we'll be Uploading So much MEDIA from this recent Concert event and the Last, so keep in contact with us from FM.

Down in Camden another BlastBeat Gig was set, but not just any Gig- it was a Gig formed by 4 different Companys around London representing themself for BlastBeat itself to get down to Dublin to enter the finals: A Music Company Face Off!

Well...not really a Face Off, lol- there wasn't much friction. The setting was in a place called 'DingWalls' btw, (I hope thats how it's spelt), which was a Bar/Pup/Concert like Venue with its own market area and 'town square'. With all the Gothic setting around me- I actually was enjoying the Day once I got there.

FM got there a few hours early before the Other Companys, Allegro Records from Highbury Grove School, Dynamic productionz, another Company who's name just slipped out'a my mind just now so i'll get back to it... We even got there before some members of BlastBeat! We brung a small cavalry with us to help out- a small number of year 9's who love music (I just wanna say thanks to all of them! Couldnt of done it without them). Because we got there alil early, FM and yr.9 (who I believe worth calling mini FM representitives), set up the whole scene! Making the setting basically FM's and BlastBeat's work; a joint effort: Moving all heavy stacks of Tables back stage, Tons of Chairs, Decorations, basically the lot- so if you liked the Gig because of all the space, thank them mainly.

Not so long after the Whole place was set up and we even set up the 'boarders' for each company so they can have their own 'representitive space', Allegro Music just came in to join the early group, a great bunch (expect my 'busy and shyness' got the better of me that night). Soon after we was all finished setting up, the rest of the Companys and even the rest of BlastBeats team turned up, lucky enough- just before a crowd started to build...

All ready, important people and the public came to the Company Boarders to see what their company is all about- surprisingly a camara crew did too!
Not to long later, everything was set up- Tons of Drinks and Food including- and we was up and running to the public.

The Night was great- we got Tons of people from the Bars above us coming down for a look and ending up not going back upstairs until the whole thing was over! About 3 songs came from the following bands:
-The Cyklones
-Ben Schulz, 2 bands we from FM chose to represent us, sadly only The Cyklones were able to make it.
and special Guests;
-Steer Clear
-Home Star Runner
-Look Im A Ghost
-The Story So Far
and last but not least:
-Lights Go Blue!

A unique individual style from them all, Home Star Runner and Steer Clear were the bands chosen to open and close the show. We were hoping Ben and The Cyklones would pass, but sadly something urgent came up with Ben so we had to haveour luck betted on 'The Cyklones'! The Band Leytonstone and its surrounding areas really was looking foward too.
Sadly Tom, Tom, George and Lewis of the Cyklones didn't make it pass the round- which disapointed alot of the crowd, but they was given a congrats party at the Bar and back home for their unique work. Real congrats guys.

The winning Band was 'Hydro'- a unique band from another area and company, who are lucky enough to enter the Finals in Dublin!
The winning Music Band was (wait for it....) FM! Lucky us! We were lucky to pass to go Dublin, which actualy surprised everyone (especially Max from the Company...I would say his hair stood on ends...), so we're lucky to be one step closer to going straight for the BlastBeat Dublin prize.

Without much warning- alot of the crowd was surprised to find out that the Concert was joint with a second event; another but smaller Gig called the 'Next Best Thing'. I can't really say much on that because I was busy working when the event took place- that...and eating but what I saw, it was like another Battle of the Bands Competition. I am unaware of the name from the Winning band so you might have to find someone elses page with the info on the' Next Best Thing' event.

So BASICALLY:
FM and Hydro would be going to Dublin representing London and showing them our Music skills.

BTW- I just wanna say big thanks to everyone who went- and to Seth, Luke, ALL the year 9's, The 2 unique members of FM (not including myself.), A BIG thanks to Grant Collier and the rest of the staff who turned up, Dan and the Whole BlastBeat team and to you all of the Public and I hope to see you all at the GRAND FINALS in DUBLIN!

BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2008 LONDON: RESULTS

4 months ago

The first ever BlastBeat Battle of the Bands in the UK lasted almost 3 hours and was a huge success.
We had performances from:
The Cyklones
Kyma
Ben Schulz
RLD.
Norlington Spitters
Tom Hood.

The Bands played 2 or more songs each, trying to get the crowds best attention (which seemed pretty easy to them seeing that everyone was enjoying it).

We had 4 judges:
Rob (Head of BlastBeat)
Dan (from BlastBeat)
Mr.Burton (Head of Leytonstone)
Dave Hughes (Magnolia Productions)

The judges gave their results after an excellent raffle (prizes included electric and acoustic guitar) and after our guest band STEER CLEAR had played 5 fantastic songs.

Their were two winners. BEN SCHULZ and the CYKLONES were both chosen to take part in the National Finals!
Congratulations to them and we will be seeing them playing in the Finals very soon.

A quick word also for Luke Bailey and Seth Finegold. Luke and Seth presented our concert and were superb. The Head of BlastBeat, Rob Stephenson, was so impressed with them that he has given them the opportunity to host the World Finals of the 2007/08 BlastBeat competition. This means that they are off to Dublin in May. Well done to them!

For all of you that were at the concert - thank you!! You helped us to raise money for charity and make the evening a success.
All the bands were very good and very proffesional on stage. We had a great range of people old and young coming along. Bands like Kyma and RLD JUST missed out on winning so good luck to them and be sure to see them back again to battle it out with the bands once again very soon!

Month 3

5 months ago

This is the 3rd Month from FM's space; I've said our FM space many times so you get the picture.
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Currently 7 days till the concert and things are getting tense - not much has happened recently but selling tickets...selling tickets...and selling more tickets. But we recorded a few scenes for a MUSIC VIDEO coming up soon, its really good, keep checking this page for updates.

The Music Video includes a really cool song by the People of 'The CYKLONES': 'Louis', the people in the Video is FM and some extra lucky people, the Recording is by FM including a great Video Recorder/Artist/Music Maker: Seth Finegold (link on page). The Video is currently in the making of editing on Systems for cool animations and extras.

Month 3 (although not much has been happening) has been stressful, and one of the best months yet!
Another Blog is to be coming up really soon, on the Results of the Special Star Guests, Amazing Bands, Ups and downs of the results and the Leytonstone BlastBeat Battle of the Bands Concert!

Month 2

6 months ago

This is a copy from our Company Space (www.blastspace.com/fm). We faced alot from the past month but are getting through all these challenges as a group and are ready to proceed to making the Battle of the Bands Concert. Other than my words, here is the group space's blog:
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Entering the second month of the BlastBeat competition, we had a few bumps along the way to our Concert Production making it a harder task to perform, a main problem was the date change of the Concert itself: (From the 27th March to the 2nd April.)

The reason to the change of day was someone (unannouncingly) booked the location on the exact day we had, meaning a change of- nearly everything.

Changing the date wasn't to hard, the problem to it was having to replace all Tickets, Posters, Flyers and online promotion to the new date and resending everything with a whole-new set day. (Not to mention putting up all the Posters and sending Tickets and Flyers again).

The time of the tasks seem to have slowed down speed than expected due to us being told about the Date Change during work experience and then Half term being right after it, another problem being now we are back at school- the school's system has messed up: not allowing anyone in our year to log in.

Although we faced all these problems, we are on top of everything and ready to prepare for the 'Battle of the Bands' 2008 concert!

Month 1

6 months ago

This Blog has been obtained from the work on my group/company space. Quite a few events we are preforming are coming up soon, you should check it out- www.blastspace.com/fm:
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A blog is usually used to look back/reflect on what we've done and share it with all you wonderful people. Luckily, as you can probably see from the above page, we have been hard at work.

Firstly, at the beginning of January we began to organise the concert and sort out some auditions to take place towards the end of the month. We started thinking about where we wanted the concert to take place. We found that the best place would our very own school. This would not only be free but would be very easy to organise. We then decided on the date of the event, which we made the 2nd April.
We then tried to think about what bands we wanted in the concert and we started to list people who we knew and who were interested. We then told these bands/people when the auditions were and told them to come along. So far we have 4 amazing bands in our concert: KYMA, THE CYKLONES, RED LIGHT DISTRICT and BEN SCHULZ.

We then began to think of alternative ways of making money. This meant raffles, refreshments, DVDs etc. and found that, because we weren't spending much on venue, advertising etc. that we could make loads of money.

We also had the idea of deliberately choosing bands from local schools and around the area. This, not only might get us extra points, but would automatically advertise the concert and get a variety of acts. These bands will be picked next month.

This is up and running and is looking fantastic!!

The Begining.

7 months ago

This site is really cool as I'm looking on it, but anyway, back to business; I was 'luckily' chosen to be IT Manager and concert work is getting a move on.
Its getting kinda messy with coursework and having a Blastbeat Concert work clashing with our school's Christmas Concert- things are clashing and making work appear in alot of places, but it's good to see we are on-top of everything.
Some of my workmates in my group are finally ready to get all the detailed work into action after a few important things popping up at school, so now were past all that, Ready Team?