Leeds music stalwart James Owen Fender decided to host a Battle of the Bands to dig out Leeds’ finest upcoming groups in association with his night ‘Plumpton Presents‘. It’s been cunningly named ‘The Battle of Plumpton’ and has 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.
The Battle kicked off to a roaring start at the Wardrobe in Leeds, with the Leeds College of Music heat. Those kids generally require a grade 8 in something to get in, so musical tightness & mad skills were pretty much guaranteed.
Here are a few of my faves from that night.
Its all about the Vox & Gibson partnership…
…and the rocking out.
It’s also all about the feets…
…and the selective motion blur…
These guys, the Moody Gowns, won this heat, for good reason.
They’re genred under myspace as Alternative / Reggae / Tango. Bunch of nutters to be honest.
The also excellent Germain, an interesting mix of great song writing, tidy drumming, metaly guitar shreddies & funky bass.
It’s all about that strat head.
Working an excellently tormented “I don’t know why I’m so sad” expression
The next band, working a completely different, and possibly constipated expression.
I believe these guys were called Zeon, and sounded a lot like Muse.
Foot + pedal = fuzz
A final detail, after the drummer threw his sticks on the final track.
There are 3 more heats and a final, 2 local Leeds band heats at Oporto on Tuesday (26th) Wednesday (27th) and the Leeds Met heat on Thursday (28th). I’ll defo be down for the Leeds Met leg, and there are some superb acts rocking the town, so if you can, get yourselves down and check the myspace here for info!
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