Week 22: BOTB

Thursday was the most amazing day of the year so far for me. The band I'm in - The Victor's Jig managed to place second in our heat in Battle of the Bands! I didn't expect it at all, especially after seeing the other bands play. The band which went on right after us was pretty good. I was expecting them to place ahead of us. When I heard my band's name announced, I was so shocked. We were all so happy and excited. No one saw it coming. It was amazing.

So, more about the night itself. The first band to go on was playing ambient music which sounded pretty nice. I don't really know much about it but apparently they lost control at the end. I didn't notice it until the guy said sorry. We were the second band to play on the night. Everything went amazingly smooth. No mess ups on anybody's part and the crowd response was pretty good. Bad News Everyone went on after us and they pretty awesome. They had great songs and at that point, I was thinking that they would at least place second. After their performance, basically both our bands started raving about each other and a person from BNE came up with the idea of playing a joint gig in Leam. I hope it happens because it would be so fun.

4th band to go on was an indie/alt-rock band which should have been pretty good if the vocals weren't drowned out by everything else. A solo act went on next. He had pretty cool songs. I liked the meaning of the songs he played but apparently he played the same songs last year. The last band was a metal band. They were very good. I can't say much about the songs but technically they were really, really good. It wasn't a big surprise that they won this heat.

I like my band. Toby (lead singer and guitarist) is a really good songwriter. He wrote all the songs we played. Becky (2nd lead singer) is a really fun person to be with. Victor (lead guitar and inspiration for band name) is really quirky and amazing on guitar. Brian (bass), Eli (mandolin) and Eric (drums) are all fun people. To be honest, I don't really know much about them personally but the time we've spent together so far has been great. We should really hangout properly one day. I really think that we could be good friends - not that we aren't now, but we could be even closer than we are now.

Signing off,

YiJiun :)