Final Scores

	Chris	Rajeev	Hari	Prasad	Guru	Total
The Peter Cat Recording Company	36	40	35	40	36	187
Frank’s Got the Funk	39	43	40.5	43	40	205.5
Farmer	35	38.5	41.5	40	34	189
Goddess Gagged	37	45	48	50	43	223
Dark Helm	38	37	40	37	35	187
Abandoned Agony	37	41	36.5	45	39	198.5

Strawberry Fields- Prelims Scores

	Guru	Rajiv	Prasad	Total
Blank Country	23	23	22	68
Narbakshi	20.5	27	25	72.5
Forsaken!!	14	11.5	9	34.5
Black Sun	35	38	36	109
Medieval Jesus	5	5	5	15
Dark Desolation	29	29	30	88
Bliss	31	33	34	98
Blueflare	15	19	8	42
Tiifin Box	33	31.5	35	99.5
Orcus	23	20	15	58
The Mechanix	31	33	36	100
Blood Orchid	30	31	27	88
Trojan	24	24	27	75
Distortion Culture	32	35.5	36	103.5
Farmer	39	41	40	120
Limit Zero	21	23	29	73
Chaos	30	35	34	99
Eagle Riders	30	26	33	89
The Lightyears	30	36	35	101
Voyage 3405	19	25	16	60
Jekyll and Hyde	32	37	34	103
Supervibe	28	22	27	77
God Particle	22	22	20	64
Drones from the Tribune	30	39	27	96
Goddess Gagged	44	44	48	136
Highway 61	32	31	32	95
Dark Helm	38	41	40	119
Infidels of Sanity	27	30	31	88
Verses	27	35	33	95
Abandoned Agony	40	41.5	46	127.5
Frank’s Got the Funk	39	40.5	41	120.5
Transit Point	27	29.5	30	86.5
Today’s Special	36	37.5	39	112.5
The Peter Cat Recording Company	39.5	40.5	39	119
Rusted Strings	28	29	32	89

Our Judges

The judges for the preliminary rounds were Rajeev Fallen, Guru Somayaji, and Prasad Bhat. For the uninitiated, here’s a small write up about each of them.

Rajeev has been an active musician for over 20 years, having played previously with bands such as Stomp and Retronome. He is currently a solo recording artist working on his third studio album with his group, Rajeev and the Rebels. He is the owner of Kyra, Bangalore’s most popular live music destination, and is in the process of launching his own record label next year.

Guru Somayaji is drummer for Bangalore based band Parachute XVI. Guru’s musical career interestingly began off-stage working on the road for Thermal And A Quarter. With over 150 stage productions, he understands the in’s and out’s of stage production. He played at Strawberry Fields 2002 with Road Crew and made it into the finals that year. In 2006, he organised Thermal And A Quarter’s – ‘Getting There’ UK tour. Between 2004 and 2007 he played drums for His Girl Friday (Glasgow), an experimental/ ambient/ folk band. Between 2007 and 2008 he performed with alt-rock band Fangle Dangle & the Skoogle Skangle (Glasgow). Returning back to Bangalore, Guru gave up music for a year and pursued a career in journalism, conceptualising and launching Sunday DNA.

Prasad has been in the music scene for the last six years in bands Inviktus and Extinct Reflections. Both the bands, were the finalists of Strawberry Fields in 2005 and 2006. Extinct Reflections has opened for Sataricon and Lamb of God.

For the finals, we had the honor of having two more musicians in our roster, Hari Adiwarekar and Chris Avinash. Here’s a bit about both of them.

Hari Adiwarekar is a former member of the rock group Zebediah Plush. He worked with Worldspace for three years, in a dual capacity, as an RJ on their rock music station Spin, as well as as an editor for their music magazine. An accomplished freelance journalist for the last five years, Hari specializes in photography and writing, with music journalism being one of his strong suits as well as his most enduring passions.

Chris Avinash has had a prolific journey through the breadth of the Indian rock scene. As a former member of Angel Dust, he won Rocktaves (BITS Pilani), Strawberry Fields (NLS Bangalore) and Mood Indigo (IIT Powai) among many prestigious competitions between 1996 and 2002. Chris’s compositions, lyrics and guitar leads were the backbone of bands like Chromatix, Document:Done, S.T.O.M.P, Gudbud Narayan and the Avril Quadros Band. In May 2008, Chris launched Christortion – an independent recording studio where he mixes, masters, records and promotes artistes whose drive and talent capture his imagination. It has already produced two artistes and their debut albums, backed by A-list  sessions musicians. That same year Chris was commissioned to and has successfully set up a recording studio for St Josephs Post Graduate and Research Center. Early in 2009, he executed the entertainment design for Kyra Theater, Bangalore His latest adventure in the spotlight is Retronome, a covers band that plays the biggest hits from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90.

Strawberry Fields 2010- Final Score Sheets

Prelims Score Sheets

Strawberry Fields 2010: Registration Details

‘Let me take you down ‘cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields…’

 

Registration for Strawberry Fields 2010 opens on the 18^th of October! With only 50 slots available, bands shall be registered on a strictly ‘first come, first serve’ basis. The Prelims at SF 2010 will be held over two days – the 12^th and 13^th of November. The top five bands shall be selected to play at the Finals, which will be held on the 14^th of November.

 

Bands have an option of registering under the category of Semi Pro or as a College band. Both the categories will be judged together, with the only difference being that college bands alone are eligible for the ‘Best College Band’ prize. You will also have to provide us with further details as will be mentioned in the Registration Form. The form shall be released on the 18^th of October, via e-mail, and the same shall also be available on the SF blog. The Registration fee for SF ’10 is Rs. 500 only.

 

Our preferred mode of payment is cash, but we do accept Demand Drafts as well. Since our College only re-opens on the 21^st of October, we shall be receiving your Demand Drafts only after the said date (21^st Oct), and it is only after the Demand Draft is in our hands that we can register you. Therefore, we would encourage you to have the money, in cash, sent to the NLS Campus via your friends in Bangalore. However if this is not possible, I would request you to speak to us before you send your Demand Draft. Please remember that your registration will be confirmed only when we receive the Registration money.

 

For all of you that wish to pay in cash, please contact Govind (+91 962 004 6687)

 

For those of you that wish to pay through a DD, please keep the following details in mind:

1. The DD is to be made in favour of “SBA LeGala”
2. The DD should be payable in Bangalore
3. The covering letter should contain the name of the band, and your contact details
4. The envelope and covering letter should be addressed to
   “The Convenor,
   Event Management Committee,
   Student Bar Association,
   National Law School of India University,
   Nagarbhavi, Bangalore – 560 242”
5. These DDs should preferably be sent through a Courier/Registered Post/Speed Post to ensure that they are not lost on the way.
6. Moreover, please do remember to call Govind (+91 962 004 6687) the moment the DD is sent, so that we are aware of the same fact.

The registration form shall be available on this blog, and will carry a few basic questions we will need you to answer, but it should not take you more than 3-4 minutes. That form, along with the registration fee, is all that is required. That’s right, folks. No preview tracks, no original compositions, no samples that you must send us, Nothing! Just fill out the Registration form and send it along! As soon as we receive your form, you’ll be put on the primary registration list. However, do remember, your registration shall only be confirmed once we receive the Registration fee in cash/via DD, upon which you shall be sent a confirmation mail within 24 hours. As mentioned earlier, registration shall be done on a first come, first serve basis, which means Registration shall close as soon as we have 50 registered bands.

 

In order to keep us all connected, the Facebook page is up, running and available at <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strawberry-Fields/157307123918>. Do join it so that you can receive the latest news and information regarding Strawberry Fields 2010.

In addition, SF ’10 has its very own website that we’re sure you would all be interested in, available at: www.strawberryfieldsonline.in

Please feel free to mail us for further clarifications at strawberryfields.nls@gmail.com.

We hope to see you at Strawberry Fields 2010.

 

Cheers,

 

The SF ’10 Committee

~Strawberry Fields Forever~

 

Strawberry Fields 2010

The dates for the 14th edition of Strawberry Fields are now here!

SF 2010 shall be happening at NLS’s field from 12th to 14th November.

Stay tuned for more information regarding Registration dates and procedure.

Start the countdown, folks!