On Sunday, my band Exempt played a concert at a Battle of the Bands and did fairly well. We've played hundreds of similar things before but, never really did that great, and knew we wouldn't because we'd always be before some really big band in my area.
As for this show, we had a pretty good set, everything went according to planned, and people said they really liked us. We learned later that night, we ended up placing 4th, one point out of third! A band named My Thoughts In Color, really good friends of our got third, which was asstounding since they're one of the bigger bands in the area, and it's very suprizing we finshed so close to them.
The top three bands got invited to "Zanafest", which is a festival for a former school teacher who taught chorus and band when my parents were in school. Unfortunatly, the band who won the Battle of the Bands was already in, was already in Zanafest, so why they were in this, we're still trying to figure out. As I said, they take the top three bands to the festival, but if one of them is already in, wouldn't it be logical to take the next three: second, third, and fourth?
Granted we were disappointed not scoring in the top 3, I think we did really well, probably one of our best shows to date. Only thing the judges said we needed to work on was stage presence. Really can't complain about fourth place, one point out of third.
Just felt like sharing.