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TRANSITION YEAR STUDENTS HAVE A BLAST AT THE HALF
MOON.
Showstoppers ‘Spitvalve’ from Cork win Coca-Cola
Blastbeat Munster Final and secure a place in the
National Final in Tripod on 17th May.
TRANSITION YEAR STUDENTS HAVE A BLAST AT THE HALF
MOON.
Showstoppers ‘Spitvalve’ from Cork win Coca-Cola
Blastbeat Munster Final and secure a place in the
National Final in Tripod on 17th May.
Student rockers turned out in their droves for the
Coca-Cola Blastbeat Munster Final at the Half Moon
on Sunday, 6th April 2008. Six bands from secondary
schools around County Cork and Limerick battled it
out for a place in the National Coca-Cola Blastbeat
Final in Tripod on 17th May 2008 to be in with a
chance to win a record deal for their band and 5,000
euro for the school.
The young talented band ‘Spitvalve’ who are from
Cork City were overall winners of the competition.
‘Spitvalve’ are promoted by ‘Audio Circus’, the
transition year mini music company from Ballincollig
Community School who are competing in Coca-Cola Blastbeat.
The overall standard of talent was exceptional and
runners up on the day were
‘Mucky’s Wall’ who are also promoted by students
from Ballincollig Community
School, they will go through to the heats in Tripod
on the 17th May.
‘Spitvalve’ put on an incredible performance to the
capacity crowd at the Half Moon.
They describe their music as ‘sca and punk’, the
band members are Shane
Courtney (17) from Carrigaline on vocals and
saxophone, Clonakilty lads Adrian
Handly (17) on trumpet and lead singer Brian Scully
(16), drummer Adam Forde (17)
and Aoibheann Murphy (15) on trombone. ‘Spitvalve’
performed three original songs
‘Bangin’ End’, ‘Tomorrow’s Another Day’ and ‘Cheer
Up Kid’.
Runners up, ‘Mucky’s Wall’ are Kieran O’Callaghan
(170 on guitar, Darragh Kearns-
Hayes (17) on keyboard and brothers Rory (17) and
Padraig Finn (15) on bass and
drums from Ballinhassis, Cork. Alternative rockers
‘Ape Escape’ from Colaiste an
Chraobhin in Fermoy delighted the crowd with their
performance while pop band
‘Overplay’ represented Davis College in Mallow.
Schull Community College saw
their Indie band ‘Pushplay’ from Clonakilty perform
three original songs, ‘Keep on
Knocking’, ‘Circle’ and ‘Light’.
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