Ok, so it would have been nice to get to home base with the Register Guard’s Ticket coverage of tomorow’s big Eugene Chosen show, but gettin’ to first base aint bad.  Here’s the tease:

“People’s choice bands get their chance Saturday

Eugene has spoken, and the 12,599 votes cast by e-mail led to Sons of Confusion, LYCKWYD, Killer Wails and Half Shark Half Jesus begin invited to make their WOW Hall debut.

The four are Eugene Chosen. They bested 60 participating bands to earn the gig, which starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Tickets for the show are $8 in advance, $10 at the door — or free for those who dress up as Blinky and Vektra. Visit eugenechosen .com to see what they look like.”

— The Register-Guard

We’ve pasted the story for ya here, but you can also find it HERE

The Chosen Few

If you’re a local band without much of a fanbase, gigs are usually limited to any corner bar that will let you plug in an amp, often for no pay. If you’re lucky, a few people might even show up. Bars aren’t readily open to under-age musicians, and without enough eyeballs in the crowd, an all-ages venue like the WOW Hall is out of reach.

Until now. As a former general manager of the WOW Hall, promoter Cindy Ingram knows how hard it is for local bands to get a shot at playing there. She created a website, EugeneChosen.com, in which people could vote by email for local bands who have never played there, and the four highest vote-getters would get to play. Out of more than 60 bands and votes from more than 14,200 unique email addresses, Eugene has chosen, and the winners are: The Killer Wails, Lyckwyd, Half Shark Half Jesus and Sons of Confusion. Ingram also created a contest for the sexiest tattooist (Chris 51 of Area 51) and piercing artist (Josh Bryant from High Priestess).

“It’s so abundantly clear that in this town bands want to play the WOW Hall,” Ingram says. “It’s a nice venue, it sounds great, it has a level of prestige, so I wanted them to have a chance.” Ingram says local bands are reporting more hits on their MySpace pages, presumably from interested music fans poking around online.

A handful of bands who weren’t top vote-getters in Eugene Chosen still won, in a sense, because they were able to get the attention of the WOW Hall and get a gig. Ingram says, “There’s a dozen bands that wouldn’t have been able to play the WOW Hall if it wasn’t for this.” Eugene Chosen bands play at 7:30 pm Saturday, May 16, at WOW Hall. $8 adv., $10 door. Free if you dress like Blinky or Vektra (characters from the Eugene Chosen site) — Vanessa Salvia

Hello Eugene Chosen Fanatics!

We just got off the phone with Cameron from the WOW hall. He’ll be running the sound for the night. He’s stoked. We’re stoked. The bands are stoked. and we know YOU are all stoked!

Here’s the plan for load-in and sets. Everyone will have a 50 min set with 20 min. between bands. The last band has an extra 10 min buffer. If we run behind schedule someone will be punished. Please.. let is be us. We like it.

Doors at 7:00pm

Sons of Confusion 7:30-8:20

Break 8:20-8:40

LYCKWYD 8:40-9:30

Break  9:30-9:50

Killer Wails 9:50-10:40

Break 10:40-11:00

HSHJ 11:00-12:00pm

We’ll see ya there (Or we will hunt you down and put hot sauce in your asses!)

Bajuana Tea

This story features all four of our band game winners as well as a band that landed in 13th place, Bajuana Tea. Right on.

Check it out!

READ THIS

Think this guy likes rock bands?

Here’s a reminder to the winners of the Sexiest Tattoo & Piercing Artist Game, Chris 51 and Josh. The Drunk Puppet Revue is Saturday night at the new re-opening of the District! You won guest passes (two each). Don’t miss out on these puppets bahving wonderfully naughty!

Hey… if any of you band members from the winning bands” The Killer Wails, LYCKWYD, Half Shark Half Jesus and Sons of Confusion were to show up at the show, Cindy Ingram, our promoter said she’s let you guys in as guests too. Check it out!

The rest of you loosers are invited too. Funny stuff.

Hey bands and sexy winners! Check out this page over here to the right under “Press Release 4-09″. Feel free to use this to help promote the show… We now also have the official show poster!