Talk:Battle of the Bands

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Contents 1 Regarding edits by Bernard Cochrane 2 Picture of a megachurch 3 In Film 4 how it works 5 Violence in a contest? 6 More than one kind of battle 7 Comment

[edit] Regarding edits by Bernard Cochrane

The contribution by Bernard Cochrane is helpful but seems to violate NPOV as well as function as self-promotion. The website he refers to seems to be unofficial and unreliable. I'm storing his contribution here and reverting to a previous version.

"Starting in The United Kingdom in 1982, The Battle of the Bands became one, if not the biggest and most publicized competition events of its kind, achieving a massive amount of publicity and inclusion from press and media alike. In 1982 as organizer, I brought the event to BBC Television where it was broadcast for a couple of years on BBC 1 television. Such was the considerable amount of recognition and media it received, that even to this day you will often see the 'usage' of the familiarity in headlines such as e.g. " The Battle of the Brides"......"The Battle of the Budgets" and so on, just keep an eye on those headlines or check out all old ones. After a couple of years with the event I left to bring The World Disco Dancing Championships to Channel 4 television and involvement in other projects. You can check out a little bit more by logging into thebattleofthebands.org where I have long since had the title registered on the internet. Alternatively just shove in my name into Google, Yahoo or any good search. Regards, Bernard Cochrane."

[edit] Picture of a megachurch

What the hell... a megachurch you americans are crazy

Uh, since when are battle of the bands hosted at churches? Aren't they hosted by MTV, Muchmusic, etc.? --Bash 03:41, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] In Film

How about a battle of the bands in film section,l with a list of movies theyve been featured in, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, School of Rock, etc...--Atticus2020 05:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] how it works

I've got a question for anyone who has ever been involved in a Battle. I'm going to be playing in one soon, but I don't really know how it works. Does a band usually only play one song, pick their best work kind of situation? Or have there been times when bands were allowed to play more than one song? Malis 18:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)Malis

[edit] Violence in a contest?

Let's say you win at a contest. Is it likely that people will start fighting? My friend is in a band and he claims that it happens and plenty of nasty stuff happened to him (Like having hi's leg broken and being hit in the head with a bass guitar for winning)

[edit] More than one kind of battle

College marching bands are known to battle as well. Maybe this should be included? The rules are simple: When it's your turn to play you have to play, you can't play a song that's already been played, and when you don't have anything to play (or choose not to play) you lose. See the Picnic Day article as an example. JakiChan 07:51, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

I deleted " ( for example, “Battle Of The Bands” [1])." because the example was there just for promotional purposes. Its not a particularly good example of anything. -Kevinebaugh (talk) 22:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)