NationStates Jolt Archive

I had an idea. Any interested nations send a band to a Music Contest. It'll be a knockout, with IC'ing the off-stage antics, and if you wish, on-stage. Tell me the name of your chosen song for that round of the tournament and I'll find it and link it up. People listen and vote for their favorite songs. The top songs, depending on the round and how many people join, will go onto the next round the losers will beaten with sticks.

Template:
Band name:
Genre:
Number of members:
Members names:
Bio:

EG:
Band Name: Hammerheads
Genre: Rock
Number of Members: 4
Members names: Thomas Nightly, Jacob Bellamy, Christopher Edgewell, John Smith.
Bio: The Hammerheads were a band formed during the Varandian Revolution, from the men of the 67th Armored Column. After the war, there was a contest held in the armed forces to find the best band. The Hammerheads came 1st in both Mainstream and Rock categories. From there, they maintained popularity with the Templarian population. They were chosen to represent the Void in the festival.

Band name: Gobblekoque
Genre: Rock
Number of members: Four
Members names: Jammal Klydesworth (vocalist), Gerth "Hannibal" Port (guitarist), Mack Piper (bass), Jessie Baal (drums)
Bio: Gerth and Jessie met at a summer camp and discovered that both held a talent. They invited their friends to play in their garage band. However, on a roadtrip to Vegas there was a dispute over gas money, and the band split up. Later, Gerth and Jessie would reunite and discover two more members playing at musical talent show. They haven't made the top of the charts yet, but they believe that this music festival could be their big score.

Their current albums are My Planet Could Beat Up Your Planet, Jungle Running, and Nubian Shield. Their first album was actually the beggining of Mack Piper's plans on making an epic story told through their music about a group of orphaned children in Russia.

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Band name: Lemonjuice
Genre: Rock
Number of members: 5
Members names: John Manna (lead vocals, piano), Andrew Forbes (lead guirarist, vocals), Johnathon Price (base guitar, guitar, vocals), and Roger Parsha (drums)
Bio: I am a lazy ass, will post one later.

Band name: BIF
Genre: Celtic Punk
Number of members: Six
Member names: Matthew "BDH" Quigley (acoustic guitar, lead vocalist), Elizabeth "Duchess" Dolittle (fiddle, vocals), Susanna "Losee-Anna" Ole (banjo, mandolin, ukelele, vocals), Harold "Wierd Hal" Pullovich (concertina, bagpipe), Marcus "Mark Eighty-four" Winslow (drums, spoons, bodhran drum, percussion), Stephen "Sunshine" Olgethorpe (bass guitar, vocals)

Biography: BIF was born in the aftermath of the Catawaban Revolution. The Catawaban Air Force was reforming due to heavy losses from inservice fighting after most of the branch defected from the Togovian military to support Catawaban independence. A surviving officer and decorated hero, Matthew Quigley was promoted to colonel and ordered to form a new squadron from some of the remenants of the eight squadrons that had defected.

Rumor has it that between candidate interviews, Quigley would play sped-up version of celtic-inspired ballads his family used to sing. Most would politely wait for him stop playing without much interest for what he was playing. However five candidates expressed interest in his music. All reports say that bandmembers Winslow, Olgethorpe, Pullovich, Ole, and Dolittle were highly qualified, and Quigley expressed great support of and enthusiam in their skills as combat pilots. Some detractors murmur that he might have passed over more qualified pilots for these five. This sort of criticism has been rendered mute by impressive post-training squadron capability and readiness reports by senior officers in the Catawaban Air Force.

After the squadron was firmly established, Quigley and his five other musicians began spending their free time in unused aircraft hangers perfecting their sound. They adapted celtic sounds and ballads to a fast paced punkish style. Mechanics and aircrews alike, who wandered over to the empty hangars to investigate the cacophany, began to express their approval for the sound. The band decided to take their show to the base's officer club and then to clubs in the nearby city of Neshoba. All of their appearence have, so far, garnered good reviews from critics and earned them an avid following all over Catawaba.

The band's name BIF or "Bomb In Face" comes from a difficult and highly-improbably defensive tactic used by aircraft faced with an air to air threat but armed only with free fall bombs. The almost, mythical strategy calls for a pilot to time the release of a bomb exactly right so that the bomb strikes the enemy aircraft thereby ending the air to air threat. Though unconfirmed by the Catawaban military, Matthew Quigley claims an air to air kill using the BIF method.

Due to their duties as active duty fighter pilots, they have not finished recording their first album "BIF: BVRAAMs and Other Ways to Reach Out Touch Someone." The Catawaban Air Force has recently given them extended leave so they can participate in this international music festival.

((I can email you the song I want to play later, VT. ))