CORNISH LIVE WIRES TAKE BATTLE OF THE BANDS CROWN
Young Cornish band ‘Hotel Infusion’ are feeling pretty chuffed after their storming win at the Cornish Livewire Battle of the Bands contest in Saltash a few months ago. Following a set of eight hotly-contested heats with 32 competing bands, the group sealed the deal with a tight 17 minute set and energetic stage presence and won a recording session at the renowned Sawmills studio.
With two gigs at Glastonbury, a number of other South West festival sessions, and a string of local appearances under their belt, the young Cornish band are determined to move forward in the music industry and the Battle of the Bands victory is a key step on their journey. Based around the Callington area, the band only started playing together as a four piece early in 2011, however they are swiftly becoming known and are gaining more gigs across the South West.
The Livewire Battle of the Bands was an intensive ten week process with Hotel Infusion up against three other local bands – Elithia, Credicide and the Badland Bandits. The teenagers won £1,000 in cash and a full set of high quality instruments and technical kit worth in excess of £4,000. They’ll use the cash to pay for a recording session at Sawmills studio so they can create a professional demo that they hope will help them carve their way in the industry. Owning the full set of quality kit now means they have everything they need to play gigs in any venue, which will also help them immensely.
Front man Bertie Ellis Dean said, “The Livewire final was truly amazing and winning means so much to us all for a whole host of reasons. We just want to say thank you to everyone who it made it possible for us to come this far already. We owe all of our fans, everyone who took part, and all the people who organised the competition, a massive thank you. We’ve all learned so much from the competition and all of the other bands, Elithia, Credicide and the Badland Bandits were super impressive. We feel totally lucky to have won.”
Hotel Infusion’s underlying aim is to defy current mainstream routes and to get their committed, unique style and blends of music heard and appreciated by other musicians and listeners. Their technical ability, and a hunger to create original material is obvious within their first collection of songs. The band refuses to perform covers and are determined to collectively write pieces with true originality that people can move and relate to.
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