Music Feedback For Bands

Music Feedback for bands and acts from the Live and Unsigned Grand Final Indie category. The best unsigned acts from across the UK took to the stage at London’s O2 to perform in front of a massive line up of music industry judges and fight it out to be named the top unsigned act in the UK.

Judges presiding over the Indie Grand Final included; Tom Deacon from Radio 1, Alex Baker who presents the unsigned show on Kerrang! Radio, Bez from Happy Mondays, Adam Perry from Bloodhound Gang, Gary Powell from The Libertines, Annika Allen Editor in Chief of Flavour Magazine, Head of Future Music Chris Grayston and Head of A&R at Future Music Ben Price.

The competition was hot and all the acts set the bar extremely high, well done to all the acts for putting on an intense show! The judges saw some outstanding performances and had tough decisions to make! Congratulations to all acts that made it through to the National Grand Final at Live Fest in London’s O2.

Find music feedback for bands in the Indie category below. Please be aware views expressed by Judges are opinions and subjective to that particular Judging panel. These views in no way reflect the views of Live and Unsigned, but are published with a view to being beneficial to the performing bands and singers who performed. So please take the feedback on board with a view to helping in the future.

Bands Music Feedback

Ben Noke

Tom Deacon – Gentle performance. Came alive when the dancers came on. Made the band look out of place though.

Adam Perry – Good performers but a bit holiday camp?

Steve Russell – Musically very competent. Waited for it to explode and it never did.

Ben Price – One of the best original songs of Live & Unsigned 2011, I’ve loved it in every round. A few shaky vocals though.

CRAM

Gary Powell – Watch tempo’s, concentrate on locking in the vocal. Voice not strong enough.

Tom Deacon – Loud and powerful. Would have liked to hear the vocals more.

Adam Perry – Good noise. Nice and strong attitude. A bit dated. Good effort though and nice ending.

Steve Russell – Great energy at the start. Singer – look at the audience! Band really needs a leader.

Ben Price – Dated sound and image but a decent band.

Munkinpure

Gary Powell – Good performance. Concentrate on honing your skills. You look like a band.

Tom Deacon – Liked the set-up with three on stage. Drummer and singer were great. Really strong performance.

Adam Perry – Good drummer. Good personality.

Steve Russell – Get a drummer and get out front. Your vocals are great but it’s hurting your groove.

Ben Price – More chemistry needed between front two. Dated but tight. Like the singing drummer.

New Royalty

Gary Powell - Great performance. Now do it together as a band.

Tom Deacon – Loads of energy. Upbeat and excitable. Wish I was in the standing area!

Adam Perry – Good sound. Great singer. Bassist needs same look as the rest of the band.

Steve Russell – Great energy. Close to a fantastic performance. Drummer – play backbeats as rimshots!

Ben Price – Great voice, good band. Nice retro sound with a modern twist. Good image.

Pink Traffic Band

Gary Powell – Guitarist needs to listen to tempo. Lost it in the ‘ska’ section.

Tom Deacon – Good audience banter at the beginning. Original stuff. Like Skunk Anansie

Adam Perry – OK. Played well together.

Steve Russell – Singer performs well. Good musicianship all around. Costumes look like a function band. Doesn’t work, don’t rely on covers.

Ben Price – There’s something about them. Great frontwoman. Tight and with commercial potential.

Soho Dandy

Gary Powell – Check your tuning. Big sound but no cohesive performance.

Tom Deacon – Committed to their performance. Audience came on board.

Adam Perry – Liked the singer. They looked and played like a band. Had unity.

Steve Russell – Pretty good overall. The music was all there for the big ending but the energy didn’t match.

Ben Price – Great voice. Awful choice of cover! Voice diminished towards the end.

Tasty Jailbait

Gary Powell – Singer was out of tune. Convincing performance though.

Tom Deacon – Great voice, tight performance.

Adam Perry – Started well but faded a little.

Steve Russell – Can you hear each other? Vocals off tune (sorry).

Ben Price – Vocally weak to begin with. Out of key at first.

The Dirty Tricks

Gary Powell - Really liked it!

Tom Deacon – Saw these guys in Portsmouth. Smashed it there. Something wasn’t the same this time. Still a strong performance though.

Adam Perry – Original song sounded good. Good image. Looked like a band. Confident.

Steve Russell – Good performance. Good energy.

Ben Price - Cover needed their own stamp. Original song much better, really funky. Good frontman.

The Filthy Habits

Gary Powell – Great performance.

Tom Deacon – Sublime energy. I’m much obliged to watch them again.

Adam Perry – Great attitude!

Steve Russell – Good energy especially the bass player. Good performance overall. Not overly original but well done.

Ben Price – Frontman verging on scary! Loads of energy but a bit dated and a clichéd cover.

The Merry Gang

Gary Powell – Great performance.

Tom Deacon – Didn’t hold back. Gave us London Calling in a massive way.

Adam Perry – Great singer. Performance died a little.

Steve Russell – Good stage presence but nothing new. Dynamically boring. Bass player needs practice.

Ben Price – Dated. Good frontman and great with their instruments but nothing new.

Wayside

Gary Powell – Strong performance.

Tom Deacon – Great performance. Strong frontman and the drummer is insane.

Adam Perry – Singer held it together well. Nice use of keys and samples.

Steve Russell – Singer has good image. Guitar is far too stereotypical. Can’t hear snare at all.

Ben Price – Good frontman but a little flat vocally. Not an original act but good fun.

The Syndicates

Tom Deacon – Looked like they were having a lot of fun up on stage. Fair play they deserved the applause.

Adam Perry – Great band. Unity!

Steve Russell – Moments of brilliance and moments of not. Great energy.

Ben Price – Good stage performance. Vocally shaky at first. Good cover they brought it up to date.

Indie category Top 5 Acts

1st The Filthy Habits

2nd The Dirty Tricks

3rd New Royalty

4th The Merry Gang

5th Wayside

You can now  enter Live and Unsigned 2012 to have your chance to perform in front of music Industry Judges!