The Metro Garage Band Series

Tune in, garage bands. Here’s your chance to make it big – well, at least a bit bigger. It’s a great gig for talented amateur musos to get out of the garage and on to the world stage in the Metro Garage Bands competition.

Rough and ready or silky smooth – it doesn’t matter. As long as you’ve got three good covers and can clamber on stage you’re in with a shot at first prize of a day’s recording time at the Red Bull Studio in Auckland.

The Metro Garage Bands competition kicks off in May with three heats and a final in June. The only rules are you must be an amateur band – barman backhanders are OK – and you’ve got to get your CD or tape to the organisers before May 23, 2011.

Entrants will be whittled down to 12 semi-finalists competing over three nights in front of three judges and a ‘discerning’ Sale St audience which will have one vote of four. The first round of heats is on May 29, 2011 at 5:00pm.

There’s a $5 cover charge for the first round of heats and all proceeds go to the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre which provides music therapy services for disabled children.

Send your contact details and a sample track (must be a cover) – an online link; a CD; an MP3; and yes, if you insist, a C60 tape.

Entries and more information, contact Catherine McGregor at Metro: cmcgregor@acpmedia.co.nz or Private Bag 92512, Wellesley St, Auckland. Find us at Facebook.com/METRONZ

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