Title: Battle of The Bands of IPG Kampus Perlis
Date: 2 August 2011
Time: 8.00 pm to 11.00 pm
The People Involved: All students of IPG Kampus Perlis
The purposes of the Battle of The Bands were to develop students’ creativity in composing song and playing musical instruments. The competition was held on August 2, 2011. All the lecturers and students came together to make it success. Battle of the Bands was first held in year 2010 and being organized by the Social Studies Department.
1.0 Official Opening
The official opening was begun with the welcoming of the Principal of IPG Kampus Perlis, Mr. Tan Ying Kee. Mr. Tan Ying Kee gave a short encouraging speech and declared the competition meet open by hitting a drum. A special performance was delivered by the former winner of the last year’s battle after the official opening.
2.0 Introduction of The Judges and Bands
Marshall William, the host of the ceremony introduced the judges and the bands which participated in the competition. There were 6 bands participating in the Battle of The Bands. All the bands roughly comprising 5 to 6 members and played lead guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard and drums. Each band was given 15 minutes to perform. They have to perform two songs originally composed by them and in the second round they have to perform one song from any artist.
3.0 Performance of The Bands
The performances of the bands were started by the King Kong as the first band followed by the Sweet Sour, Badfinger, Infinity, Dead Drum and Black and Yellow as the last band to perform. Each band showed similarities of music genre in composing their songs. They would play either an alternative rock song or indie rock song at the beginning and chose a hard rock song as the second song. Meanwhile, in the second round, the bands mostly chose songs from Green Day, Linkin Park, Muse, Evanescence, 3 Doors Down, Audioslave and Foo Fighters.
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