And the winners Of Hornbill International Rock Contest 2013 are.....

The Contest has come to an end it’s time to learn who the winner is of the Great Hornbill International Rock contest in 2013. Decisions have been made and we are pleased to announce that .A big thanks and congratulations to all the participatingbands, it was a truly impressive group of musicians who made it a fantastic night and festival as well! In a tough competition at the Battle of the Bands finale today, 10^th Dec at Solidarity Park, the Winner of The Great Hornbill International Rock Contest was decided as

1^st Prize- Underground Authority

1^st Runner Up- We The Giants

2^nd Runner Up- The F16s

Most Promising Band (By TSM) - The F16s

Best Nagaland Band (By TSM) - We The Giants

Individual Prizes

Best Vocal Band- Underground Authority

True School Of Music’s Best Vocals

- 1^st Runners Up- We the Giants

- 2^nd Runner ups- Nigambodh

Best Lead Guitarist- Infuse (₹ 30000+ Ibanez Guitar)

True School Of Music’s Best Guitarist

1st Runners up- Underground authority

2^nd Runners up- We the Giants

Best Bassist- Underground Authority

True School Of Music’s Best Bassist

- 1^st Runners Up- Nigambodh

- 2^nd Runners up- The F16s

Best Drummer- Underground Authority

True School Of Music’s Best Drummer

- 1^st Runners Up- The F16s

-2^nd Runners Up- Sycorax

Best Keyboardist- The F16s

True School Of Music’s Best Keyboardist

- 1^st Runners Up - White Noise

- 2^nd Runners Up- Ground Zero

The Hornbill crew had a tough decision, but in the end it was the best of the best for the win!

White Noise, a five piece band from Nagaland opened the stage and followed by the following in sequence

Sycorax (Darjeeling)

The Urban EarlyMen (New Delhi)

Nigambodh (New Delhi)

The F16s (Chennai)

Making Merry (Nagaland)

We the Giants (Nagaland)

4 Degrees Of Freedom (Jharkhand)

Underground Authority (Kolkata)

They contest witnessed the biggest crowds of the 4 days long event and is ended by a guest performance by the band Divine Connection.

This year the winner of the Contest will walk home (apart from the Official Cash Prize) with A recording contract by VENUS, Mumbai. TSM is offering a sponsorship in the form of scholarship worth ₹ 11lakhs which includes 3 months professional training with accommodation and travel expenditure for free of cost for the winning band. Besides they will be taking stage at a blue frog gig, Mumbai Pune tour, audio/video recording and the list goes on...

Best band from Nagaland is offers with packages worth ₹ 5 lakh which includes video and audio recording and music training at TSM, audio-video recording and lots more with accommodation and travelling expenses for free.

And many many individual prizes.....for more details on the packages and prizes Click Here

This year HIRC was packed with various genres of bands from all the four corner of the country and competition was very obviously set to be bigger and better than ever! This year the bands on stage forced the audience despite the freezing cold weather to pull out their hands shoved in the pockets, jump with the beats and have fun with Music. The aim of the Hornbill International Rock Contest is Simple- to discover new bands and new music, and give the deserving winners a shot of fame, fortune and exposures. T he Audition flagged off on the 6th of December, 2013 which lasted for 3 days. The Participating Bands confronted with The Best of the best Bands from the Country and the Globe as well. Indeed it was a tough decision for the judges’ panel to bring out the best 9 bands out of the total for the grand finale. This year the packages of the winner are massive, the attention from the audience and media is enormous, and the bands are just Awesome!!

The participating bands this year are

Johnmpamei and the Band

 4 Degrees of Freedom

 Circle's End

 Yesterdrive

Purple Fusion

Street stories

 Underground Authorities

Phobia

 Turnkey

 Red Light Passengers

The Wishes

The White Noise

The Urban Earlymen

The F16s

 Ground Zero

Nigambodh

Colossal Figures

Sycorax

 Zero Gravity

Eye Still

 Death Note

Infuse

Making Merry

We the Giants

Find out more about each band below…

Band Details(Click Here)

THANK YOU TO ALL THE BANDS AND FANS WHO MADE THIS YEAR’S Contest SO MUCH FUN!  See you at next year’s contest, too!