OOC: Hope this means I can post this now?


The band had been sitting back stage talking about the old days when a small man walked in and told them it was time to go out on stage. The group only had 3 more gigs before they were to go their separate ways and tensions were a bit high. The crowd has just seen some of the best live bands in the business today and they were wanting more. This left a sick feeling in the pit of everyone's stomach. Even after many years of touring and many different competitions, the excitement was still there and it was still fun. It made them think of their impending split, and wonder if it was really for the best. Too late now, the curtains are open and the audience awaits.

Johnny walked straight to the piano, an instrument that he loved and was using more often. Joey walked to his bass and Randy to his guitar. Garry was already sitting at his drums before they came out. The crowd which was made up of the other contestants and a few fans was cheering loudly but they slowly died down. This arrangement of an audience made them even more nervous but finally Johnny hit a single key. He began a slow solo piano solo and built up into a loud and fast rambling of notes until he suddenly stopped and Randy joined in with a blazing chord melody starting the first song.

Break Free is a new song compared to some of The Rockers work and may still be unfamiliar to some people, but the audience began to dance and sway as Johnny sang the first chorus. Johnny's blue suit was ripped and dirty as was the others black ones. This was a symbol of being battle worn and of the long road they have traveled. The song drew to its quick solo and Randy stepped up to the front of the stage to shake hands with people in between note strings. The song ended with a bang and Johnny stood up to walk to the other microphone. The audience cheered.

"Hello, how are you? (cheers) Good! We're gonna make you feel even better if you'll let us, and we plan on having a fun time tonight. Everyone ready for that? (cheers) Come on, you all sound like crickets, I said are you ready for some fun? (cheers louder.)

Alimony Blues is a brand new song from the bands latest album and has a comedic element along with its rocking style. Guitar is used heavily here and the only thing louder is Johnny's voice as he belts out the many pleas for forgotten love. The lyrics talk about a man who has to live in a hotel room, eat bologna and work 3 jobs to support his wife who divorced him, and his son who he doesn't think is his. This song ends in a sudden burst of flaming notes from the guitar and the crowd cheered wildly as the next song quickly began.

Too Tough is one of The Rockers oldest hits and is still one of the main staples of their live show. Its a casual rocker with heavy chords and sounds similar to an Ac/Dc song. The vocals are rough and ragged while the guitar is clean and smooth. The song is one of their most popular and while they have played it over 900 times, the band all agree that its still fun to play and have no complaints. Randy Wilde changed the solo for this performances and rather than a quick bursting solo that switches between high and low notes, he plays a mid-tempo-ed solo that started low and built up to a high end.

"Hows that for kick ass? We would like to do another new song for you...er...new-er I guess. Its called Evil.

Evil is a song about the evils in the world and is a much more serious song compared to the bands other work, as is the album which it comes from. The lights dimmed and Black lights show down on the crowd as Johnny sang about the darkness in people and the pain they cause to each other. The solo again hits hard here but it is not a guitar solo like on the album. Instead Joey steps on to the platform and plays a quick paced bass solo that sets the mood even more until Gary ends the song with a loud clash of cymbals.

Immediately the lights went on shining an almost yellow hue and the crowd cheered loudly as the band began playing Good. This is the opposite of the last song in every way. The songs lyrics speak about the people in the world who work to make it better and the saving graces out there. Johnny sat back down at the piano midway to play a solo that would have gone to Randy normally. Again the song was changed up a bit and seemed fresh again for the band, and the crowd. The song is a quick one and ends again in a loud clash of cymbals.

"Our time together is almost up, and I hope you have had as much fun as I have. I want to leave you with something that makes this night different. I want to talk about the future....ah screw it this is more fun."

The Road Home is an old song that the band doesn't normally play but has had a lot of requests to do so. It is a slow ballad and is piano based. The song is about a man who has just been discharged from the marines and his trying to find his way back home through roads he never knew and people he thought he did. It is a somber song but ends with a smooth and moving guitar solo that sets the mood that the band is feeling and when they all stood up at the front of the stage and the lights dimmed making them appear as shadows, even their combatants in the competition felt the sorrow, but as the lights came back on...Johnny and the boys were reminded that their is happiness ahead and left the stage feeling confident and anxious about the next round. After twenty years, you cant ask for more.

"Alright, get ready to go"

"Well hey"

Insolent Paradox enters the stage, adorned with nothing but the band name, all four members are clearly nervous, they take a little too long getting ready. Erik then starts a kickass, complex, eastern-styled riff.... about 2 seconds before the other members even turn on their amps, Jose tries to save the band with a flashy, virtuoso bassline.... only to realize he's playing an entirely different song.

"Dammit!"

All four burst into laughter.

"Well, let's just play something simple, ok? Fuck ourselves."

Dani starts with some bluesy licks in what seems to be Dylan's Thunder On The Mountain, the drums and bass join in and Hector starts singing with a deep, penetrating voice more reminding of Tom Waits than of Bob Dylan or Hector himself. They seem to just be jamming with a song, without any pretentions or technical skills, halfway through the song Hector starts changing the lyrics, Jose starts shuffling random effects into his playing, while Dani and Erik make their parts more complex.... and surprisingly the song does not fall apart, they continue this way till the end of the song, all four clearly happier with jamming without the burden of doing something innovative or technical.

"That went pretty damn well"
"What now?"
"Fuck the setlist"
"We'll play the heavy part of our collab with Sage Thrasher, how about that?"
"And the drone thing"
"Alright, this is Track"

Daniel and Hector exchange some thrash riffs, while Jose goes nuts on bass, and Erik plays drums in crescendo, they go on for 1 or 2 minutes and then Daniel plays a long drone with no previous advice, the other three members somehow saw it coming and join him in a doom inspired part, while Dani keeps the drone Hector gets into some sort of... riff or solo type of... thing, anyway whatever he's playing was born out of listening to Sleep really, really, REALLY high on a night while seeing horror flicks, and then when it seems they'll reach some sort of breakdown, they hit the reset button and go back to that thrash riff exchange, with the bass madness behind, then again with no advice the song ends on a long, long, long drone.



The band chats between themselves for a few seconds, then Erik starts some latin percussion wankery and then Daniel starts with a heavily processed guitar sound reminiscent of a trumpet, over those two instruments Jose and Hector start building an atmosphere where they end up covering the spanish hit Matador. Instrumentally. Which takes away a lot of the song's attraction, yet it was a fine cover

After a few more chatting and what seems to be a joke about a donkey, Hector does the riff for The Passenger and then everyone joins them, Daniel singing on deep, not-so-penetrating voice the lyrics to Iggy Pop's song, sadly without the crazy behavior. Jose again starts fooling around with bass and at one point he creates a moment of amazing beauty under the thick layers of sound that make the song, really a moment that cannot be explained with human words, apparently he realized this because he kept a face for the rest of the gig that apparently said "well that was pretty amazing/i'll never do that again/i still want pie"

"Oh well, we came here with the purpose of unveiling a couple new songs, but let's just go ahead and finish with another cover"
"Wonderful Tonight"
From the crowd: "I hate love songs!"
"You like Clay Aiken, shut up"

A soulful interpretation is provided by the band, with the song remaining practically the same, with only one difference, Hector once again provides his raspy vocals, greatly different than Clapton's mellower voice, a remarkable thing about the gig, on two out of three songs that had vocals Hector did them and Daniel took over lead guitar, huh?



"That was fun"

Insolent Paradox leaves in silence, to give space for the next band to play

Setlist
Thunder On The Mountain
Track
Matador
The Passenger
Wonderful Tonight

OOC: Wasn't able to start my rp today, so mine will be up sometime on Tuesday.

OOC: Alex from Testament and Dragonforce? Sorry, I like guessing face claims, except only the Dragonforce one's really a guess.

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!

Nick-Are you guys ready to rock tonite
Crowd goes absolutley

Matt- this song is called move on
(after the song)

Charlie-Thank you well as most of you know we are still a relotively unknown band. But Jenny and I are leaving the band after this tour is done and after DTBOTB4 is over.
Crowd boo's.

Matt-this next song is by a band called Papa Roach.. It's called "I Almost Told You That I Loved You"

the crowd starts to mosh to the song


Matt- Well how many of you liked that
"RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!" yells the crowd
Matt- Well then your going to like our next album

The Band starts to play "Baby I Lo... Don't Love You"

Jenny- So right now we are going to slow things down with a band called "RadioHead" this song is entitled "Karma Police"

(Matt singing the ending)

thank you so we actually only have time for about two more songs so we are going to do one more cover right now its called "Im made Of Wax, Larry, how bout you?" by the band "A Day To Remember"

In the middle of a song a giant fight breaks out and security is forced to throw out the people who were fighting.

Dylan- Well now that thoose fuckers are gone how bout we play our last song

YAAAAA! yells the crowd

Matt-Ok this song is the hardest song on the E.P. its called "The End"

in the middle of the song Nick yells"Alright fuckers get up go crazy and dont forget this fucken night for the rest of your god damn lives!!!!

EVERYONE fets up people were jumping on the stage and moshing like crazy

Matt-We love you all, you guys are crazy, GOODNITE!!!!

Set
-Move On
-I Almost Told You That I loved You(Papa Roach cover)
-Baby i Lo... Dont Love you
-Karma Police(RadioHead cover)
-Im made Of Wax, Larry, how bout you?(A Day To Remember cover)
-The End

Thanks to everyone that voted us through hopefully this was a better RP then our last one we did more covers to show what our new sound will be simallar to
Please vote for us :)

OOC: I'll probably have mine up by tomorrow.

OOc: mine will go up tonight, but I'm already at 950 words before the band have played a note...

With the success of getting through the first round of voting, I Spy Mudkipz have taken a break from touring with Zzzonked and have been busy preparing for the second heat of the battle of bands. Before going on stage, each member of the band goes through the setlist, making sure no mistakes are made, and that the instruments are perfect for the new performance they are trying for the one gig. Barrett sends the tweet “Literally just about to go on stage, this is insane”, this could be shown as a sign of nerves from the young vocalist, but it could also been seen as a bonus. He and his band are becoming an internet hit, with social websites such as Myspace, Twitter and Last.Fm helping the music circulate.

“Hello Calton Hill!” Shouts Michael to the crowd filled with fans who are lucky to get at the small gig, “You’ve been going crazy for the other bands, hope you get step it up for us!”

Gemma, keyboardist then begins to play a backing synth, sounding like something from a prodigy song, but with a strange edge that makes the song sound towards the indie style that the band are famous for; Indie, Electronica and Grime, more commonly known as Nu-Rave. As the rest of the band begin to play along to the keyboard loop, Michael tells the crowd “This song was written for this gig, and this gig only, It’s called Circles!” The music is temporarily cut out by the sounds of screams and then Michael starts his part “It goes round in circles, it’s just like a whirlpool, this ain’t no sequel, No i won’t go!” With a circle pit starting, it seems fitting with the song, and it’s lyrics. The song sounds more like a mix between Hadouken and Pendulum than anything in this song, with the lyrics being grime and the music being dominated by keyboard loops and heavy effects.

“Woah you guys really know how to have a fucking good time!” Michael tells the crowd, “This next song, you might have heard, it’s our first single, VAMPIRES LIVE IN MY BRAIN!” More screaming occurs as the band play their most famous song to date, the song causes more circle pits and people dancing along to the synth beats, as Michael and backing vocalist and Guitarist Adam sing “Smashing like glass, we are the night!” the crowd joins in, and gives the band a huge confidence boost, making Michael think that they could make it somewhere in the music industry with the release of the new album/mixtape “We’re Here To Keep Things Moving”
“That was insane people! We’d like to tell you about our merch that is being sold here, we have an EP that we will be giving out for free after our set! List to the tracks and give us feedback, the songs might just be demo copies, but we want to get feedback so we can improve it for the real thing!” Adam tells the excited crowd. “We’re gunna play an instrumental song now, it’s called ‘Fighter Beat’!” The song sounds like a Prodigy song, heavy synths, on a loop, with effects flying around. Michael continues his trademark of jumping into the crowd, and has a short crowd surfing moment before coming back onto the stage for the bands next song which links with Fighter Beat

“Are you ready for a cover of our main influence Hadouken?” The crowd start cheering and chanting for what song they want ‘Liquid Lives, Mic Check and That Boy That Girl’ are all heard, but the band ignore all of these requests “here is MAD!” Michael screams to the crowd just over the sounds of cheering and shouts. The cover of the song is the same musically but Michael adds his own touch to the lyrics, adding his own little rap during the slowdown in the music. The crowd seem to love the cover singing along with the band and dancing to the music.

“We’ve got time for one more song, I think it should be another cover..” Says Michael, aiming this at both his band mates and the crowd, who begin to shout out songs they would like to hear the band cover, ranging from Hadouken, The Prodigy and Pendulum to Mindless Self Indulgence, Lady Gaga and one person is even heard to shout out a Bring Me The Horizon song. “Right, we’re gunna be playing you a song, that you wouldn’t expect us to cover.” Michael informs the crowd, “it’s called Hot ‘N’ Cold!” The crowd here the opening to the Katy Perry song, and begin to jump around to the catchy song “We want you to sing with us!” Bassist Scott shouts at the crowd.

As the song and comes to a close Michael screams to the crowd “You have made this gig one of our best gigs of all time, we hope you have enjoyed it as much as me and the others have, Enjoy the other bands!” The crowd scream the loudest they have the whole night as guitar picks and the drum sticks are thrown into the crowd. Fans are seen rushing towards the I Spy Mudkipz Merchandise area were they are picking up the band’s EP for free.

Setlist
Circles
Vampires Live In My Brain
Fighter Beat
M.A.D (Hadouken! Cover)
Hot ‘N’ Cold (Katy Perry Cover)

OOC: I've now got a horrible feeling i'm going out this round.