Hello Echoman

It's been a busy weekend. We went to check Echoman rock it up at Battle of the Bands on Friday night. The boys were great!! They didn't get into the finals but that's ok because they made it to the finals and they sounded 'o for orsome'.


Before them there was this island-style band, with - surprisingly enough - a white chick as their vocalist. They weren't TOO bad (considering it was the semis) but they did use a drum machine instead of the actual kit.

Minus points for their drummer not actually having the ability to drum on a kit!

Okay, I admit it, I am selfishly loyal to Echoman...

AFTER them was the heavy metal band that made us all leave the room. Seriously! They had two guitarists - one who had a Hello Kitty guitar (I mean, street cred completely out the window...) and one who had more pedals than he knew how to use. Both of whom played EXACTLY the same thing. Now what, I ask you, is the point of having two guitarists if they're going to all play the same thing???

And the bass player...ugh. Seriously, he either did one-note plucking or just played chords. CRAP. He had NO style whatsoever and his strings were WAY too low and kept hitting the fretboard.

The vocalist was all right. At least, he had the ability to interact with the audience. Ability to sing/screech/shout something remotely understandable he did not have. Shame really.

We all met before hand to hang out in that pinnacle of University institutions The Common Room:

Erhm...

Take two??

It took about 3 tries to get this right :P

Happy couple?

NOT (in a very Borat tone of voice...)

Mel!!!

Take three...

The soon to be married...

Anyway, it was fun. It's not often we ALL get together like this. And we cheered lots for the boys. AND even though they didn't get into the finals they were asked to play while the judges we deliberating at the finals. Which is good exposure to say the least!

Finally...Echoman finishing off Election Night by Bic Runga: