Smokefreerockquest Canterbury Final

Be at the Town Hall auditorium on Saturday 28 June 2008 to see the regional finalists battle for the Canterbury title which includes a place at the National Final being held on Friday 5 September 2008 in Christchurch. Live performance from The Valves.

These are the 15 bands that will compete for the Canterbury regional title, plus prizes and the chance to be selected as finalists:

Christchurch Finalists
Beneath the Silence Kaiapoi High School & Cashmere High School
Custard Bear Christchurch Boys' High School
The Unfaithful Ways Christchurch Boys' High School
3rd Inertia Burnside High School
Galaxy Stampede Burnside High School
Subtle Impression Burnside High School & Middleton Grange
Skatelly Kat Gang St Andrew's College
James Hart St Andrew's College
Celluloid Jam St Andrew's College & Cashmere High School
Sand Fly Bay Cashmere High School
Warble Shirley Boys' High School & Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti
The Producers Middleton Grange School
Strategy Chisnallwood Intermediate
Morti Humani Papanui High School
Trigger Happy Lincoln High School & Hagley Community College

The Canterbury finals are at 8pm on Saturday 28 June at the Christchurch Town Hall. Tickets are $20 at Ticketek or at the door. The guest band is high-octane Christchurch rock band, The Valves.

The Heats were held on Sat-Sun 14-15 June at The Civic with the following bands

Saturday 14 June 2008
Aforementioned Chaos Burnside High School
Dynamix Catholic Cathedral College
Wet Louise Christ's College
GALAXY STAMPEDE! Burnside High School
Babylon of the Limp Bang Catholic Cathedral College
Paralyzer Chisnallwood intermediate
The Young Souls Burnside High School
Bughum Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School
Strategy Chisnallwood Intermediate
3rd Inertia Burnside High School
Desert Yeti Darfield High School
cherry black Akaroa Area School
Subtle Impression Burnside High School & Middleton Grange
Incision Heaton Normal Intermediate
Metric Imperial Hagley Community College

Lunch break

The Chaos Theory Hornby High School & Hagley Community College
Nexus Linwood College St Andrew's College
War Crimes Burnside High School
bluetifulsoulz Marlborough Girls College
Quixotic Linwood College
Plague Of The Fallen Shirley Boys' High School
Millenium Burnside High School
Corrupted Omen Aranui High School
The Producers Middleton Grange School
Something Contagious Burnside High School & Riccarton High School
City in Chaos Papanui High School
Grandpa Burnside High School
Pak 'n' Slave Aranui High School
Some Kind of Noise Shirley Boys' High School
40 Days & Nights Middleton Grange School
Morti Humani Papanui High School
Sand Fly Bay Cashmere High School
Spying on Joe Rangi Ruru Girls' School
Warble Shirley Boys' High School & Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti
The Unprotected Sextet Cashmere High School
oliver gardners lonely trio Riccarton High School
5thDayOfMay Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti
TSOR Thorrington
The Corsairs St. Andrew's College
Earl Grey Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti
Funks Fault Riccarton High School
James Hart St Andrew's College
Glass frogs, electric peppers Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti
Boulevard Riccarton High School & Christchurch Boys' High School
Skatelly Kat Gang St Andrew's College
Soul Sista Rangiora High School
Celluloid Jam St Andrew's College & Cashmere High School

Sunday 15 June
Satanic Tea Towel Christchurch Boys High School & Aranui High School
Molydenum Hurunui College & Linwood College
Beneath the Silence Kaiapoi High School & Cashmere High School
Epileptic Dinosaurs Christchurch Boys' High School & Burnside High School
Twist Of Fate Hurunui College
Team Ryan Kaiapoi High School
Custard Bear Christchurch Boys' High School
27 degrees Hurunui College
Kaliber Kaiapoi High School
The Unfaithful Ways Christchurch Boys' High School
Whiplash Hurunui College
Revamp Kaiapoi High School
The Greater Good Mairehau High School
googleish Villa Maria College
Leverett Place Mairehau High School

Lunch

MeerKatSuicide St. Bedes College
Steel Smoke Riccarton High School
bob norris's gang Oxford Area School
Three Flights Up Lincoln High School
Leviathan and Zizz St Bedes College & St Margarets College
Going Nowhere Fast Rangiora High School
Anti-Freeze Oxford Area School
Hanamomy Lincoln High School & Hagley Community College
One Man St Bede's College
Lydia Solvander Rangiora High School
Scratch n Sniff Oxford Area School
Trigger Happy Lincoln High School & Hagley Community College
The Shifty Drifters St Bede's College
Lydia's Grace Rangiora High school
Vynal 68 St Thomas' College
The muffin men Lincoln High School
Blizzard St Thomas' College & Villa Maria College

The Canterbury finals are at 8pm on Saturday 28 June at the
Christchurch Town Hall. Tickets are $20 at Ticketek or at the door. The
guest band is high-octane Christchurch rock band, The Valves.

TV
Over the winter, heats and finals from around New Zealand will be
filmed by music and youth culture television channel C4. The national
finals of Smokefreerockquest will be held this year at the Christchurch
Town Hall on Friday September 5, with a 20 year commemorative concert
featuring past Smokefreerockquest successes on Saturday September 6.

Prizes
Prizes at the national final include musical equipment from NZ Rockshop
to the value of $10,000, and The Edge Airplay Award with NZ On Air
where the winning band's music and video are recorded at York Street
Studios with guaranteed airplay. Other awards reinforce the key
Smokefreerockquest aim of encouraging students to write and perform
their own music. Individual prizes are awarded for best lyrics, women's
musicianship and the best song. A scholarship to the Tai Poutini
contemporary music course is awarded for musicianship, along with
selected bands being matched with past successes in a mentoring
programme supported by the Music Industry Commission and the Ministry
of Education.

About Smokefreerockquest
Smokefreerockquest is the biggest and most influential nation-wide youth event held in New Zealand, reaching audience numbers in excess of 100,000 every year. Founded in 1989 by music teachers Glenn Common and Pete Rainey, who now run Rockquest Promotions full time out of Nelson, it has become a New Zealand institution. Musical successes from Smokefreerockquest over its 20-year history include Evermore, Die!Die!Die!, the Datsuns, Brooke Fraser, Anika Moa, Cut off your Hands, Flight of the Conchords, The Electric Confectionaires, Elemeno P, So So Modern, Steriogram, Fat Freddys Drop, Aaradhna, Atlas, The Feelers, The Blackseeds, Nesian Mystic, Bic Runga, The Have, Fur Patrol, Liam Finn, Pine, King Kapisi, and The Checks. Smokefreerockquest aims to motivate young musicians to prove their ability and realise the heights they can reach in their music careers, and encourage their peers to support 100% original New Zealand music.

About Smokefree
Smokefree exists to encourage New Zealanders to adopt and maintain healthy attitudes and lifestyles. Smokefreerockquest and Smokefree Pacifica Beats ensure the positive Smokefree message reaches young people in their own environment.

More information is available from the official Smokfreerockquest website www.smokefreerockquest.co.nz