Battle of the Bands 2025
Following the huge success of last two year’s East Devon Battle of the Bands, East Devon-based production company R&K Systems are coming back this year with a bigger and better contest for 2025.
The finalk will be at the Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 25th February; Tickets are £8 and available here
50 bands and solo artists entered the East Devon competition alone. We included students from Kings School in Ottery St Mary, Cranbrook School and the Rock Project and many of the bands applied independently.
This year, we are teaming up with the Devon & Torbay Music Education Hub & the Music In Devon Initiative, with four school partners running heats in North, South, East and West Devon. The age limit for this contest is 18 years old and this will bring together four existing Battle of the Bands contests, with young musicians from the whole county battling it out at the Final.
The Prizes
We're not big fans of competitions that reward only a few of those that get involved as we feel that this can be discouraging. So, there will be the following prizes to share among contestants.
A Free Day Recording with R&K Systems
We will record the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize winners, giving them each a day of studio time. This can be either used to record just one song or as part of additional studio days to work on more than one song.
Free Mixing & Mastering From Pete Marten
Peter Marten is the producer we work with for all of our recordings and we have free mixing & mastering of one song for each of the winners available as a prize. They'll be in safe hands, Pete won “Best Producer” at the Devon Music Awards.
Hear the Quality of the Music
We've worked in this way on 2 Kabins single and the Leonard & The Zombies debut EP. Click on the image below to hear the songs.
Once we have finished music from the 3 winners, we'll mentor them to get their music on streaming platforms. We'll help them to develop an Electronic Press Kit and set up local radio showcases such as takeover shows on Phonic FM. Through this mentoring, we hope to support young people in the first stages of getting their music out there.
Paid Festival Appearances
We have arrangements in place with a heap of venues and festivals, more coming soon!