Last week we joined James Owen Fender for another round of his Battle of the Bands competition, in association with his Plumpton Presents band night in Leeds. James set up the competition to promote undiscovered bands and win a fantastic prize: some quality prizes, such as the winning band getting a track waxed by ace producer James Kenosha, which gets onto a limited edition Plumpton Presents Record (via ADA distribution) and get to play the Beach Break Live 2010 music festival.
We joined James (above) for this leg at the Leeds Metropolitan University.
As well as being a charming & witty fellow, he’s a terribly good musician and might just be the next big thing waiting in the wings.
Check his myspace here.
One act that night was my good man Gavin Mart. Generally a more acoustified act, he & the Saturday Vandals let loose with a rare full kit set.
He worked that usual G-Mart shabby chic.
Phil Barber & myself (Barnaby Aldrick) both attended this one, and it’s always shooting a gig from 2 angles. There’s less pressure to get the standard shots and more scope to try new things. Here’s of Phil’s.
One of Phil’s snaps of Rob, the Saturday Vandal’s drummer. Only 16, Rob’s one of the top 10 young drummers in the UK. He’s got some skills.
Dan Norton’s also what I’ve always described as a ‘lead basist’ and has a gift & years of experience behind him.
The following act were Dododeaddead, an instrumental post-rock act.
I’m liking Phil’s detail of the Fender Bass.
…and this wide one of the stage
The guitarist liked his ebow. Those post-rock bands normally do.
A detail of the basists foot, poised to break into distorted fuzz
The dododeaddeadrummer
And a sweet, colourful shoe shot
I quite like this one of everyone lost in the rock.
The final act that night were Dead Sea Colour. They had a beautiful singer, who occasionally looked right into the lens like so.
Their guitarist, up on the 12th fret of his Telecaster.
The basist sang some tracks too. They were pretty cool actually these guys.
The singer Natalie drummed her way through some tracks on her own snare.
I liked this catch of her resting while the rock flowed around her.
Anyhoos – enough flowery chat! It was another night of stellar bands, and big thanks to James for asking us along. Sadly Gavin Mart didn’t win this heat. That honour went to Dododeaddead.
A night or so later, the finals were held at Oporto’s bar. Dododeaddead went up against Moody Gowns, Charlie Bath & The Luminaries and the Moody Gowns walked out victorious!
They were ace at the Wardrobe leg, and really looked like they had a wicked time on stage. Congrats to them.
They’ll be joining us to play a marginally paired back set at the next Sunday Service on Feb 28th if you’re in the area & fancy a listen.
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