Live Photos of Hornbill International Rock Contest 2013

       2013's Hornbill International Rock Contest 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.

This Year Hornbill International witnessed the following bands

·        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

The 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!! However, it's a competition and the tagging of being the winner is not possible for all the competing bands. The nine bands that was selected for the grand Finale are:

·        The F16s

·        Underground Authorities

·        Making Merry

·        Sycorax

·        Nigambodh

·        We the giants

·        The urban Earlymen

·        4 Degrees Of freedom

·        White Noise

The Contest came to an end and it was time to learn who the winner is of the Great Hornbill International Rock contest in 2013. 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 on 10th Dec at Solidarity Park, the Winner of The Great Hornbill International Rock Contest was decided as

1st Prize- Underground Authority

1st Runners Up- We The Giants

2nd Runners 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

- 1st Runners Up- We the Giants

- 2nd Runner ups- Nigambodh

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

True School Of Music’s Best Guitarist

1st Runners up- Underground authority

2nd Runners up- We the Giants

Best Bassist- Underground Authority

True School Of Music’s Best Bassist

- 1st Runners Up- Nigambodh

- 2nd Runners up- The F16s

Best Drummer- Underground Authority

True School Of Music’s Best Drummer

- 1st Runners Up- The F16s

-2nd Runners Up- Sycorax

Best Keyboardist- The F16s

True School Of Music’s Best Keyboardist

- 1st Runners Up - White Noise

- 2nd 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. Here are some of the live actions photographed by our ground Photographer.

Photo Courtesy-  Akuto Levine

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