Jupiter Studios Battle Of The Bands Review

Jul 8, 2009 News

Let me start this by saying, “Thank You” to all who came out to support us at Fubar for the Jupiter Studios Battle of the Bands. Alas, we didn’t win, but IMHO we rocked. I am not one to give my band or myself too much credit, I always think we can do better, but I believe that this show was amazing!

I’m not going to give you a play by play of the evening, for that you can read A Night At Fubar on JohnNemec.com, but I will give you the short of the show.

Of the six bands scheduled to play the show, only 3 arrived: Achalachia, The Phranklyn Project, and Almost Modest. We had a half hour set scheduled, July 1 Set List, but with the missing bands we had to fill in 45 minutes. Also, the show was scheduled to begin at 8 but was pushed back to 8:30.

I’ll never understand why a band would drop out of a show, ever. But of all the shows to drop out of, why this one? Just for playing this show every band receives 10 free hours of studio time from Jupiter Studios. If that wasn’t enough, what about the fact that the whole reason people are in bands is to play their music, which they’ve worked hard to create, on stage in front of people other than your mother.

That being said, the set we ended up playing was:

• Vomit
• Self Esteem
• Hey Refrain
• Norman
• Broken
• Sappy
• Personal Canary

We guessed our time wrong and didn’t get to play Petunia Pussylittle, which was the first time we didn’t play the song at a show since it was made. But it turned out well, and it was refreshing not to play it.

The other bands were good, but I truly believe that we were better. “Then why didn’t you win?” you ask, well, bottom line is, we didn’t sell as many tickets. Both of the other bands brought far more people than us, and the judging was based on how loud the crowd gets after the set. After our set the crowd was VERY loud, and I thought we might have a chance of winning, but towards the end of the show about 30 fourteen year old kids walked through the door. The boys balls hadn’t dropped and the girls hadn’t found cigarettes yet so the decibel range had to be off the chart. At least that’s what I tell myself to make me feel better.

Win or lose, we still have our 10 free hours of studio time, so that gives us a grand total of 20 hours at Jupiter Studios to record some songs. We are still thinking of recording Petunia Pussylittle and Personal Canary. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know.

Now we are preparing for the 105.7 The Point and Pop’s Battle for Pointfest show. We will need everyone support if we are going to win this one. The winner gets to play the side stage at Pointfest. So bring your friends, neighbors, and your mom. Also, buy your tickets from us, it makes us look better, and you can get your tickets by sending us an email on our contact page.

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Tags: Battle of the Bands, Fubar, Jupiter Studio, recording, Show Review