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unusual facts about Battle of the Bands



Hangar 17

In the first series the show promoted unsigned musical guests, during a Battle of the Bands feature but this idea was dropped from the second series in favour of more established acts such as East 17.

High School Musical: El Desafio

High School Musical: El DesafĂ­o (The Challenge) is a spin-off of the American film High School Musical for the Argentine market, based on the book Battle of the Bands.

La Mafia

In the summer of 2008 Oscar De La Rosa, leader of La Mafia challenged A.B. Quintanilla and his group Los Kumbia All Starz to a battle of the bands.

Langwith College

The smallest college at the university, Langwith is known to most students by virtue of its facilities - its college bar, for instance, is a common meeting venue, and its lecture theatre, with its retractable seating, is often used for functions such as the Battle Of The Bands and shows by the Gilbert & Sullivan society, as well as Mixed Martial Arts, Capoeira and Dance societies.

Seven Years Past

Seven Years Past has appeared in multiple Battle of the Bands competitions, including the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa's Battle of the Bands, where they have been entered for a chance to win a spot to open for Jon Bon Jovi for the Hard Rock Calling celebration concert in London.

The Dead Lay Waiting

After a few months of writing material and playing a handful of shows, the band entered a regional battle of the bands competition, which they won, collecting sufficient funds to allow them to go into a studio and record a four-track demo.


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Action Item

The band spent the summer of 2008 doing various east coast tours, and played the NJ date of Warped Tour on the Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands stage.

Animate Objects

CZAR Absolute was asked to participate in the 2003 Triangle Fraternity Battle of the Bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Best Love Song

The concept of the video, as well as the battle sequences depicted in the video, is a direct reference to the "battle of the bands" segment from the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Florida Classic

On Fridays, both bands perform after high school bands during the annual Florida Blue Battle of the Bands at Amway Center.

High School Musical: El Desafio Mexico

A new school year begins at High School Mexico (HSM, initially interpreted), and the school has announced a "Battle of the Bands" contest hosted by Jesse & Joy.

Isaac's Aircraft

They followed this win with a second award - winning the London Kopparberg battle of the bands competition in July 2011.

Kid Theodore

Their first show, then as simply Theodore, was a battle of the bands in November 2005 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in front of 2,000 people.

Martin Gerschwitz

In 1972 he got his first big success: He won the "Battle of the bands" in Solingen, where he met Dieter Rubach (amongst other members of the popular heavy metal band Accept), but turned down to play with them as he got the opportunity to play with German entertainer Howard Carpendale, from 1974-1977.

Scott Raynor

RBHS often arranged Battle of the Bands competitions, and Raynor participated: his band, The Necropheliacs, played a cover of Metallica's "Creeping Death".

Scuba Dice

After entering the 2006 Hype Entertainment Battle of the Bands and winning, the band released a highly successful self-titled EP, they then opened for the The Frank and Walters, at a gig in the Olympia Theatre, featuring an additional guitarist Des Foley of Mr Lightweight.

The Heart Beats

They attracted nationwide attention in the summer of 1968, when they won the battle of the bands on the popular ABC-TV variety show Happening 68, hosted by Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere of Paul Revere & the Raiders.

The Scorching Adventures of the Screaming Jets

The Screaming Jets won a national Battle of the Bands contest run by the Triple J network in 1990 and won time in a recording studio to release this EP in 1990.

The Trampformers

Indie-rock four piece The Trampformers first started playing at Calday Grange Grammar School on the Wirral, (The Coral's keyboards player Nick Power is a former pupil) where they won the school's 2005 Battle of The Bands Competition and came to the notice of a local promoter.

Windsor Airlift

After playing at Steele County's Battle of the Bands in summer of 2003, Windsor Airlift made a major change in the band's genre direction.