Spring Break
Musicians dominate campus during weekend
Battle of the Bands, Flat Tail Festival bring professional, student artists to campus
Lisa Riordan
Issue date: 6/2/08 Section: News
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Battle of the Bands was held Friday, followed by the Flat Tail Festival on Saturday. Both events were hosted by the MUPC.
The Flat Tail Festival, featuring headliner Ghostland Observatory, was covered in an article printed in the Friday, May 30 issue of The Daily Barometer.
Honest To Empire won OSU's eighth annual Battle of the Bands, which featured an 12-band lineup, a beer garden sponsored by Rogue Ales and two opening bands that were not competing.
The second- and third-place winners were In Pursuit Of and Action Panther, respectively.
The battle started Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. and continued into the evening, with music lovers mingling in the MU Quad until roughly 11:30 p.m.
The event was a tremendous success with greater sound quality and "a cleaner stage set-up" than previous years, said accounting junior Ryan Weil, who has attended the popular Battle of the Bands for the past three years.
"Overall, I thought the whole thing went very well," Weil said. "I've helped with the setup and take-down process before in the past, and I thought they made great improvements this year."
Weil also described the crowd as more responsive than those of years past, and attributes this change to the shift in setup.
"The crowd was especially excited this time," Weil said. "I think the event was a lot more fluid than the last, and I thought the KVBR setup really added something."
Mike Wilson, a senior majoring in German and psychology, was pleased with the atmosphere of the music festival but cited concerns about the actual judging process.
"In my opinion, Break As We Fall was easily the best band out there, but they didn't even place in the top three… so I really have no idea how they determine the winners," Wilson said. "It doesn't make sense to me."
Senior in English, Nathan Becker, who has attended the event for the past two years, also expressed confusion about the judging process.
"You know, I've even asked some of the bands and none of them seem to know how they're being judged either," Becker said. "It's like the mysterious man behind the curtain is calling the shots, but nobody knows what criterion is actually used to declare who the winners are and who the losers are."
Lisa Riordan, staff writer
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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Matthew Eddleman
posted 6/02/08 @ 2:26 AM PST
I can tell you who is behind the scenes, its the same non-musically diverse biased judges who had an agenda that held try outs for battle of the bands. (Continued…)
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Matthew Eddleman
posted 6/02/08 @ 2:28 AM PST
I can tell you who is behind the scenes, its the same non-musically diverse biased judges who had an agenda that held try outs for battle of the bands. (Continued…)
Charley McGowan
posted 6/03/08 @ 2:55 AM PST
What's your solution then Matt?
And Lisa, I'm glad you appreciate the time and effort that every other band put into making sure that they were at the top of their game. (Continued…)
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