The ‘Skrypt’ and ‘Cake Dilemma’ emerged as the city’s two best student rock bands in a National wide hunt for best college amateur rock music bands competition held on Saturday night at Durgam Cheruvu in city. In a close comeptition fought by eight bands viz Caution, Delay 456, Mephistopheles, Pash, Ensigns, Modusvivendi, Cafe Dilemma and Skrypt, Skrypt emerged as winner and Cake Dilemma as runner up.
The band members of the Skrypt, the winning band include Ravij on Drums, Scenic on Vocals, Akhil on Guitar, Abbas on Base. Ms. Ramya Rao, a second year student of Biotechnology was the lead Guitarist. She is the first lady lead guitarist of any band in the history of Hyderabad.
The members of the ‘Cake Dilemma’ the runner up band include Adnan as lead Guitarist, Classics by Naren, Key Board by Rohit, on Base Sandeep and Drums Ancoosch. The highlight of the this band was Ms. Yaminoi Vocalist. She is the first female vocal singer for any rock band in twin cities.
Another highlight of the comeptition was it saw a live wire drummer in the form of Venkatesh Potluri, a fifteen years old tenth standard student of Meridian School. He received the accolades from 1500 and odd audience and the judges for his firebrand performance. Despite of handicap of being visually challeneged, Venkatesh Potluri took everybody by surprise with his amazing performance. Incidentally the band Modusvivendi in which he peformed stood at third place. And judges made a special mention of Master Venkatesh Potluri’s remarkable performance.
Speaking immediately after the results Venakesh said it’s an achievement we have got together as a team. When asked whether visualled impaired comes as a handicap to perform to be the best drummer he said, he is as normaly any human being and doesnt find any difficulty. I don’t do rehearsal everyday. When i decide to do, i fix up a target and try to live up to it. No body taught me drumming. I am a self learner. I have picked it up on my own. I have already given six performances so far. And would like to give more, Venkatesh said in the presence of his parents.
These two teams will compete with winners of Regional Contest from Bangalore and Mangalore. Best two out of the six bands competing at Mangalore will fight for Rock Idol title nationally to be held in Delhi on 2nd December, 2007
Over 30 bands that participated in Hyderabad Regional Selections, the short listed bands get ready to rock their way to victory. With hundreds of supporters from their college fraternities, participants vyied for the winning positions that hasl qualify them for the next round of the event.
The Natioinal winner of this year’s Campus Rock Idol will perform alongside an International Rock Iconic artist. The first runner-up & second runner-up receive cash awards apart from the winners.
CRI 2007 Regional Selections begin in Hyderabad and Jaipur on the same day. After Hyderabad, next in queue to host the regional selections are Bangalore, Chandigarh, Manipal, Shillong, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Pune and Delhi respectively. The South Zone comprises of Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Manipal for the music fest while the West Zone encompasses Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Jaipur, Delhi and Chandigarh form the cities in the North Zone and In the East Zone, the event will be held in Kolkata and Shillong.
Since its inception, Hero Honda Campus Rock Idols has seen a steady rise with regard to awareness & participation among College rock bands. Compared to the previous year where 300 bands participated, 500 bands are expected to participate in Campus Rock Idols 2007. The finals will be held in Delhi on Sunday, 2 December 2007 at University Polo Grounds, North Campus. It is organised by DNA Networks.
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