St
Paul
- Battle of the Bands - St. Paul,
Alberta -May 13th 2006
A couple weeks since
our last gig and all the guys in the band are pretty pumped
to be playing our first Battle of the Bands. Organized
by our buddy Brit in St. Paul (from Cheat2Win), the show
is taking place at the St. Paul Recreation Centre. There
is around 7 bands playing, and Judges include a Recording
Studio Owner, people from The Goat (Llyodminister radio
station), and people from the local news paper.
We
left Saturday afternoon to head out to gig not knowing
when we would be playing (you usually don’t find
out your time slot until you get to the Battle of the Bands).
After arriving, the band got together and met up with Brit
to see if there was anything he needed help with, he was
good to go so I grabbed a table and put out Living Illusion
CDs and other Promo material for people to take.
Sean
(our drummer) pulled straws and we got a pretty good
time slot, around 9:30PM. All the bands competing were
Grassdorf, Se7en Sided, Three Seeds, Hasik, Methodical
Breed, Grey Matter, Living Illusion and Acclaimed Candid
(We’ll at least that’s
whom was on the poster). The show started and bands started
playing. The Venue was massive, and it was a concrete
room, the sound quality I must admit was not very good,
for any of the bands.
One
of the DJ’s from The
Goat did all of the introductions and there was a DJ
playing house music between each band. The switch from
band to band took about 5 - 10 minutes. We started getting
our stuff ready in the green room as our time to hit
the stage was soon to be upon us. Se7en Sided (the band
before us) finished off there set and we started loading
in as they teared down.
The
Goat DJ introduced us and we started our set. The sound
in the room was border line horrible even though we were
very performing well to the giant room. At some point
of the night one of the girls on the floor started stroking
Jason’s
Mic stand, gotta love small towns. The crowd was good,
we had a bunch of people that saw us at The Loft last
time we were in St. Paul and they came out a second time
for another dose. We played are last song hard and heavy
said thank you and had to rush off the stage for the
next band.
After that we all met up in the green room and chilled
as we had to wait a couple hours until the winner was announced.
We killed time via drinking and bullshiting with other
bands. We also found out that the singer from Methodical
Breed, one of the competing bands, used to be in a group
with our drummer Sean Kaminski.
So
after what seemed like forever Cheat2Win (the headliners
who weren’t competing)
were about to take the stage, but before they went on
The Goat DJ announced the winners of the Battle of the
Bands, 2nd Place: Se7en Sided, 1st Place: Living Illusion.
Needless to say we were all pretty stoked about winning
and ran out to the floor to rock out to some Cheat2Win
tunes.
After
the gig we headed over to Brits (as we were crashing
there) and chatted with him about the event and what
not. Needless to say he also agreed that the sound at
the Recreation Centre was horrible. It wasn’t long
after that that we all crashed and went to bed.
The next morning we got up, hit up Smittys for breakfast
and headed home. Another show well done.
Happy and Fulfilled,
Shane Lamotte
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