Floors and Walls win World Final
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A band from Brighton, England, Floors and Walls, were the winners of the GBOB Challenge 2008 World Finals. The event featured national final winning bands from 26 countries playing two-song, eight-minute sets to an appreciative audience at the Scala, King’s Cross, London last night (December 15 2008).
The panel of judges were Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols bassist/songwriter), Jim Lowe (producer: Stereophonics, Charlatans etc) and Ben Adams (ex-member of A1 and now producer). They were impressed by Floors and Walls’ extraordinary on-stage energy as well as their well-crafted rock-rap songs.
In second place were teenage rockers Powerage from Australia who played with the swagger and assurance of old pros, and the delightful all-girl punk band Pinky Piglets from Japan took third place. Fourth place went to melodic rockers Baby Jenx from Ireland and joint fifth place went to Lady Fire from the Faroe Islands and indie rockers The Leads from Scotland.
But as well as those six bands, all the bands who took part in the GBOB Challenge 2008 World Finals played their part in making the event such a success. A special shout therefore goes out to (in no particular order: C’Cord from Indonesia, Curanderos from Germany, Christine from Norway, Sorry Boys from Poland, Lab Rat from Malaysia, Tea Break from Serbia, Restless Soul from Italy, Wallace Vanborn from Belgium, Metro from Denmark, The Marker from Romania, Killer Soap from China, Kali-Mist from Wales, Darksound from Spain, ToDo from Moldova, Agent Fresco from Iceland, Broke City from the USA, Abroad Experiments from Croatia and Fable from Canada.
A heartfelt thanks also goes out to Tango Tempo from the Ukraine and Phoenix from Pakistan, who won in their respective countries and should have played in the World Finals but were unable to come because of delays in getting visas to fly to London.
Three of the bands are still in town and will be playing a special gig at the Bridgehouse II in Canning Town on Wednesday, December 17, which should be a special treat. On stage will be Powerage from Australia (who came second in the World Final), The Marker from Romania and Killer Soap from China. It’s free to get in too! Bridgehouse II, Bidder Street, Canning Town, London E16 Tel: 020 74 74 32 00 website: http://www.bh2live.com
