Great Waves, Winners of Sound Off! 2010

Candysound

SEACATS


On a night where basement bands emerge as real life musicians, Great Waves takes the lead. At the final round of Experience Music Project's Sound Off! 2010 Candy Sound (1st Round Winners), Hooves and Beak (2nd round), Great Waves (3rd round) and SEACATS (Wild Card Winners) competed for the grand prize of all of this great stuff:


- Performance at Bumbershoot 2010
- Live on-air performance on 1077 The End's Locals Only
- 2 days of studio time (including space use and engineer) at Orbit Audio
- Production of one song by producer Glenn Lorbecki of Glenn Sound Studio - KORG equipment - Epiphone gear
- Industry consultation from the Recording Academy
- One song featured for sale in Rock Band through the Rock Band Network, the new suite of tools allowing bands to plug their original songs into the Rock Band game

The finalist round took place on a stage in EMP's Sky Church where just the night before HEART performed to a sold out audience. I arrived to work at the Sound Board booth with friend and classmate Roxy to which I pointed at Great Waves on the list of performers and said, "If this band does not win, the Earth will certainly spin off of its axis." Fortunately that did not occur. The winners fell in this order:

4th: SEACATS
3rd: Candy Sound
2nd: Hooves and Beak
1st: Great Waves

Every one of the kids were completely amazing and the experience as a whole was one to remember and be inspired by. I cannot wait to see Great Waves at Bumbershoot!