Futuresound Music can now confirm which thirty bands have got through to the next round of their unsigned competition, Futuresound 2004. There had been a huge response to the competition where over 150 bands entered and the standard of the acts has been of the highest quality to date. This goes to show that the calibre of local bands is at an all-time high at the moment and it has been extremely difficult to whittle it down to only thirty.
The chosen bands will play at a series of gigs at the Cockpit venue in Leeds over the summer – beginning on Monday 28th June – and Music industry judges and an audience vote will decide upon the top six bands who will strut their stuff on stage with other top acts at the Leeds Carling Festival.
The selected thirty bands are: Yellow Stripe Nine, The Old House, The Sunshine Underground, Buen Chico, The Printed Sound, The Kicks, The Black Helicopters, O Fracas, The Xenith Sound, Forward Russia, Ten Seconds Of Chaos, Delta Volts, This Et Al, iLiKETRAiNS, Ridgevex, Threekseven, Zealous, Baby Food, Soberskin, FineApple, Project New City, Nine Pound Note, Robochrist, Indicator, Charly Six, The Alamo, Drat, New Legends, Downdime and ADT.