Clapometer installed at The Hippo
SCORES of people are expected to pack The Hippo live music venue tonight for the first heat of this year's The Herald South West Battle of the Bands competition.
Music lovers from across the region will see Melancholy, Violent Virtues, The Rising and The Quantize wage a war of riffs to see who will be the first to make it to the quarter-finals in August.
Doors at the Bath Street venue will open at 7.30pm tonight.
A total of 32 bands from all over the region will descend on The Hippo over the summer for our competition. It will be the fourth competition run at The Hippo, formerly The Hub, by The Herald.
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The winners will take a £1,000 prize from sponsors St Austell Brewery, as well as four days' studio time at Plymouth's Deep Blue Sound and a CD duplication sponsored by Plymouth Volksfest.
A 'clapometer' has been installed at The Hippo to help with the judging – so the more people who cheer for their favourite band, the more chance they have of going through.
The second heat of the competition will take place tomorrow . Roadhouse Bound, Melancholy Moose Society, The Vics and Digital Bob will be vying for the quarter finals. Doors open at 7.30pm, with the first band on at 8pm.
Comments
by Norman, Elburton
Wednesday, July 01 2009, 7:16AM
“Its a great little club. We need more live venues intent on bringing in new blood and prepared occasionally to sink to the depths with events like this.”