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Christchurch loves to rock!

Smokfreerockquest logoEighty Christchurch bands have entered this year's Smokefreerockquest regional competition

Director Glenn Common says playing in bands gives performers a whole range of useful skills.

"There's a lot more to it than three chords and a drum beat," he said in a statement.

Kids learn to co-operate, to express their thoughts and emotions in words, to front up on time, to promote themselves and their ideals.

The Christchurch bands competed on Saturday 14 June and Sunday 15 June, starting at 11.30am both days at the Civic Theatre in Manchester Street.

Winners in 2008

National winners: Christchurch band Beneath the Silence

Regional winners: 3rd Inertia

National final in Christchurch

The national finals of Smokefreerockquest were held at the Christchurch Town Hall on Friday, September 5, and a celebration concert the following night featured past Smokefreerockquest successes.

Regional heats line-up

The bands that comnpeted in 2008 regional competitions were:

Saturday

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
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 break
MeerKatSuicide St. Bede's College
Steel Smoke Riccarton High School
bob norris's gang Oxford Area School
Three Flights Up Lincoln High School
Leviathan and Zizz St Bede's College & St Margaret's 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

After the heats

The top 14 bands will go on from the heats to the Canterbury final at the Christchurch Town Hall at 8pm on Saturday 28 June. Tickets are $20 at Ticketek or at the door. The guest band is high octane Christchurch rock band, The Valves.

Heats and finals will be held in 24 centres around New Zealand, and footage from several of these events 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, and a celebration concert is planned for the following night featuring past Smokefreerockquest successes.

Prizes

At stake in this year's Smokefreerockquest is first prize of 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.

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