For those not yet in the know, Scuba Dice are the winners of the 2006 Battle Of The Bands by Hype Entertainment. Sponsors also included Adlib Music (to the tune of €1000 worth of equipmment), The Mill Studio (to the tune of €1200 worth of recording time), Essaness (sponsor of the individual prizes), Brodericks (sponsoring the live recordings) and of course ourselves here at KilkennyMusic.com.

The final was highly contested and ye didn’t make it easy to pick a winner, let that be known. From the get-go with Original Lineup up first the performances were fantastic. Everyone had amped up their energy on stage, got the crowd behind them and gave it socks on the day. Judges for the final were myself (Ken), Alan Lennon and Alan Dawson who also went on to provide a 30 minute Itchy Trigger Finger set while the judges made their decisions.

Running order for the day was Original Lineup up first around ten to five or so, followed by Act Of Vengence (who I think snuck in a sixth track), Blue Meryl and finally Scuba Dice who looked like they had brought the whole of graigue with them.

The level of performance was terrific, the Zoo never looked better for a gig and the crowd never gave up with their jumping and moshing around.

We’ve got photos coming up from yesterday’s final and they’ll be published to the site today or tomorrow, don’t forget you can leave your comments and thoughts on the [url=http://botb.kilkennymusic.com]official blog for the 2006 Battle Of The Bands[/url] and let us know what you thought of each of the acts in turn.

I know there’ll be some disappointment and some disagreement with the result but everyone did fantastically well to get as far as the final and not finishing in the top spot isn’t a bad thing at all, hopefully all the bands will be back again next year to compete and I’m looking forward myself to seeing them in action on the gig circuit in town over the coming months.

Comiserations to those who lost out, thanks to the few hundred of ye who showed up on the day and hopefully we’ll do it all over again on an even grander scale next year.