“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

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

Josh @ HPP

Now for the runner’s up stats:

Marilyn @ High Priestess

Jim @ High Priestess

George @ High Priestess

Jeff Peck @ High Priestess

We FINALLY got this Sh*t up and running again… For a while there the site wouldn’t let us post graphics or photos, and the font would change colors without us telling it yo! (Twilight Zone music in the background creeping up behind ya.) And you know about all of the missing posts… well.

Let’s do this thang! Here’s a recap of the stats from the Sexiest Tattoo Artist and Sexiest Piercing Artist games…. We’ll start with the Tattoo Artists:

Chris 51: The Sexiest Tattoo Artist Winner!!

The Winner is Chris 51 of Area 51 Tattoo! He had 477 votes in all.

Here are the runner’s up:

2nd Place:	Dani @ Area 51	270

Dani @ Area 51 Tattoo

3rd Place:	Kendra @ Evolved Ink	237
4th Place:	Russell @ Area 51	157

Russell @ Area 51

Splat Ter @ High Priestess

Josh @ The Parlour

Anji @ HPP.

Demian @ The Parlour

Everyone at Area 51 Tattoo

Erich @ High Priestess

Sydney

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