Tickets for the best-ever BurySOUND go on sale this Friday, (19 September), and demand looks like being hot. Eight bands have been short listed, all young, local musicians, with keen followings.
Two heats are scheduled for 17 and 31 October with the two best bands from each going forward to the final on 14 November at the Corn Exchange in Bury St Edmunds. The line-up for Heat one on17 October includes ‘Amberlight’, ‘Headfull’, ‘Luv Dump’, ‘My Little Red Door’, and ‘Suicide Dollz’. The bands competing in the second heat on 31 October are ‘Its not me, Its You’, ‘Beneath the Inferno’, ‘Selective Walk’, ‘Solstice’ and ‘Vanilla Kick’. Tickets priced £4 are available from Soundsplus, Risbygate Street; Bury St Edmunds Bus and Coach Station, St Andrews Street North; and Tourist Information Centre on Angel Hill, all in Bury St Edmunds. They will also be available on the door at £ 6 if tickets are not sold out.
‘Student’, last year’s winners, were really pleased to win the competition. They went on to produce their first EP ‘Robot’.
Last year saw a capacity crowd and people queuing for tickets. The winners, based on a popular vote plus a judges’ vote, receive £250 of equipment, recording sessions at West Suffolk College, Recording Sessions at The Shrubbery Studios, 500 CDs duplication as well crowd adulation. Even though the event has an overall winner, the aim of the competition is to develop the talent of musically-talented young people within St Edmundsbury each band member will also receive a Soundsplus voucher for taking part in the competition.
BurySOUND 2008 is an alcohol, drug and smoke free event. More information at www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/thescene or call Simon Pickering on 01284 757077.
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Issued By Sally Easton, Communications Unit, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, Phone: 01284 757046 email: sally.easton@stedsbc.gov.uk
