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The Break 3 and 4 at the Comedy Café
AKG microphones, in conjunction with their UK distributor Harman Pro UK, have announced their involvement in new music evening The Break for the fourth time this year, on May 30th. This will be the last time that the event coincides with Unsigned Heroes 2008, AKG's competition to find the best unsigned band in the UK and Ireland.
The Break is a monthly event held to promote new music and up-and-coming unsigned groups at Shoreditch's Comedy Café, sponsored by AKG and Strummerville, the charity set up in memory of the Clash's Joe Strummer to promote new bands around the country. Over the past four months, The Break has featured guest appearances from London's finest all-girl band The Veez, purveyors of country Americana The Cedars, indie superstars-in-the-making Sol Devious, brassy-edged punks The Fool, Johnny 'the new Dylan' Flynn, bluesy rockers Marner Brown and Kent's finest Rhythm & Roll band Maker, alongside a host of unsigned bands playing in AKG's Unsigned Heroes competition, which has always taken place on the same night as The Break.
From songwriter-orientated ska-pop to synth/guitar-spattered thrashcore and moody, mean-streets rap to indie bluster, Unsigned Heroes has given the bands a chance to prove themselves in front of a highly critical judging panel of music industry producers, writers, and record-label owners. The final heat of Unsigned Heroes coincides with the final night of The Break on May 30th.
The winners of Unsigned Heroes 2008 will get to play at some of the UK's biggest summer music festivals later this year, as well as having one of their songs remixed by UNKLE and released as the lead-off track on a 12-track unsigned compilation album, to be released by Universal Records label No Carbon records in the summer.
Unsigned Heroes entrants must be unsigned to any record label, and must all be over 18. Only original compositions are eligible for entry, and bands must be capable of reproducing the tracks live on stage.
15th April 2008
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