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The Behrend Beacon
Battle of the Bands 2004
The Juliana Theory headlines IEB 's year-end spectacular
by Lauren Packer
editor in chief
April 30, the last day of class, is go
ing to rock. Literally.
That’s when Lion Entertainment
Board presents its second annual “Battle
of the Bands” concert. This year, the
stage will spotlight 12 bands in compe
tition to be labeled best band. The
bands are local bands, coming from as
far as Aliquippa, The age of the bands’
members vary also, with some as young
as high school.
Headliner the Julianna Theory, fea
turing Number One Fan, will round out
the concert with a performance at 8 p.m.
LEB members had been trying to find a
headliner for some time and ran into
roadblocks such as scheduling conflicts
and lack of funding, explained LEB
executive director Dave Daquelente.
Number One Fan was one of the
board’s first choices but the band’s tour
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“The funny thing with Number One
Fan is that we got a press kit from them
and I really wanted to book them be
cause I really liked their sound,” said
Jen Bragan, nightclub director of LEB.
“But I couldn’t get ahold of them so we
went ahead and booked the Julianna
Theory, who was like ‘Hey, by the way,
we’re bringing Number One Fan with
The music is set to rock at 2 p.m. with
each of the 12 bands playing 20 min
utes sets. Ten minutes in between each
band will allow for set-up and tear
down. While the stage rocks, students
have the opportunities to take advan
tage of listening to the bands or partici
pating in the day’s other events.
Inflatable sumo wrestling and joust
ing, in addition to food, will be happen
ing from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the food
will be served at 5 p.m.
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Brett Deter of the Juliana Theory
will be at LEB’s Battle of the Bands
on April 30.
"We kind of planned the event to be
sort of a blowing-off,” said Bragan.
“It’s something you can just come to
and listen to music after a semester’s
worth of work. You can beat out your
frustrations with the joust or sumo wres
tling, or you can eat nachos until your
brain explodes. You’re just going to
have a good time.”
Bragan described The Julianna Theory's
style of music as alternative rock.
“Of the 12 bands, there’s a good
streak of hardcore going through.” said
Bragan. “One band in particular sounds
likes the early Beatles.”
The number of applicants raised sig
nificantly this year thanks to relaxed en
try rules.
“We got rid of the restrictions that
said at least one band member must be
from Behrend, Mercy hurst, Edinboro or
Gannon,” said Bragan. “This year there
was 21 entries and we had to turn nine
away.”
The selection process involved 15
members and took approximately six
hours, explained Bragan.
The bands were randomly numbered
and their tracks judged by three differ
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and overall fee.
“Say a band was really musically tal
ented,” said Bragan. “If they had tight
composition, but you just didn't like
their feel, then you could discount them
in that category.”
This year’s winner will receive a
cash prize to be determined, in addi
tion to other various prizes and an au
tomatic bid to next year’s Battle of the
Bands.
Close to 1.500 students enjoyed the
first annual battle last year, with 600
students crowding the stage to listen
tothe headliner. Daquelente has ap
proximated the LEB has spent the last
four to six months intensively planning
this event.
“It takes every single member of
LEB to pull this event off,” said
Daquelente. “A lot of time and effort
was put into this event.”