battle of the bands

Rubber Jack

Last night was the final of our Fruitstock Talent Search. Every year we choose an unsigned band to come and play at our free festival - we've spent the last couple of months listening to all sorts of stuff, trying to whittle it down to four bands.

The Savage Jazz

After a rock'n'roll evening full of beer, crazy axe licks and some strange percussion (those things that are a bit like cowbells but make more of a woodpeckery sound), we came to decision time. Our four judges (Sarah from Observer Music Monthly, Dominic from The Times Knowledge, a nice man called Sumit [Nitin Sawhney's manager] and our very own Adam Rostom) chose a band called The Savage Jazz.

Scouting For Girls

But the people's choice was Scouting For Girls, mainly because all of the girls at innocent fancied the singer. So we did what any good, decisive business should do and fudged it - both bands will be playing at Fruitstock on the weekend of 5th-6th August.

Comments

[joanna caldwell]

Are you doing another talent search for unsigned bands this year also?

[Cathy Dunford]

I would also (like Joanna) be very interested to hear if you are going to do another talent search for a Fruitstock band as I would like to recommend an excellent fabulous one. Thanks, Cathy

[dan at innocent]

We hope so. Keep your eye on the blog for more news.