RSS
Facebook

Tuesday 10 December 2013


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, 10th Dec at Solidarity Park, the Winner of The Great Hornbill International Rock Contest was decided as
1st Prize- Underground Authority
1st Runner Up- We The Giants
2nd 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
- 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.

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…
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!



3 comments:

  1. ua bribed the judges.fuckall competiton..we the giants deserved it.not some hindi rap band.hornbill shame!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Wrong Judgment, Panels ,,,,,,particularly Undr Authry,,,Really they r t winner???????? There are other deserving Bands performed, tik hai ,,,,,judge judiciously nxt time.....

    ReplyDelete

  • 2