Preparations have started for the 5th!! Battle of the Agile Bands.

Venue – locked in.  John Curtain Hotel in Carlton.

Date – locked in.  Friday 14th July 2017

Participating Agile companies – to be announced soon.  Stay tuned.

 

 

 

All hail the mighty Hellvetica from 99designs.

Congratulations to 2016 winners of Battle of the Agile Bands.  Are they unstoppable?

It was an amazing night of rock for charity.

With honourable performances from the other bands 99designs were the winners once again but it was no walkover.

Check out some great photos here https://www.flickr.com/photos/ultrakml/sets/72157671379022086/

See you next year!

It’s on tonight!  Bands from 99designs, ThoughtWorks, Envato, REA and Urbanise have been practising for months to put on an amazing show for charity.  Who will rock the hardest?

Tickets have sold out for the event once again.  Sorry!  Gotta get in early.

Tickets are on sale NOW!  You’d better be quick if you want to see the amazing show.  The last 4 years have SOLD OUT and each year is bigger and better than the last.

So don’t delay.  Buy a ticket TODAY!

https://battleoftheagilebands.eventbrite.com.au/

Four company bands are locked in for this year’s battle.  99designs, ThoughtWorks, Envato and REA.

Rumour has it new entrants are being considered.

Five bands will compete this year.  99designs, ThoughtWorks, Envato and REA and for the first time Urbanise.

 

 

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around

planning for a new battle of the bands was underway.

Tentative date:  Friday 22nd July 2016

Location:  John Curtain Hotel

Bands competing:  stay tuned

 

 

 

Sparkle Motion Won!

What a fabulous night of truly amazing talent! First to take the stage were newcomers Envatones. We had no idea
what to expect from this band but they quickly owned the stage kicking off with a rocking version of Mrs Robinson.

They followed up with some old time rock’n’roll tunes like Shake Rattle and Roll, and Great Balls of fire making use of their great keyboard player, guy and girl singers and saxophone! The passionate rendition of Careless Whisper was an unexpected treat and a cheeky 99 Red Balloons made reference to last year’s winners – Hellvetica.

There’s no doubting 99design’s commitment to the show. If the contest was judged on costume alone Hellvetica would easily have won.

It was an over the top (gun) set of power pop tunes including You Really Got Me, Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Tenacious D’s Tribute. Wow.

Next up were Sparkle Motion from ThoughtWorks. Such a fun set, opening with Sweet Transvestite and going on to tunes like Killing in the Name Of. Great theatre and fantastic musicianship. Surely the highlight of the whole evening was The Devil Went Down to Georgia. With electric violin no less. How can you compete with that!

Last band for the night was Lost Property Office from REA. Certainly the most consistently on genre band, they picked 90s Britpop. Garbage, Elastica and of course Oasis. A final guitar ever solo from Rich Durnall closed the set.

Photo by Kevin Yank

Hellvetica from 99designs returned in stunning style to take back their crown.  It was a “thrilling” performance by all accounts!

Congratulations.