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ISSUE 1,140 Friday 21st June 2024
REGIONAL WIN FOR SCHOOL BAND Two days of full-on heats at the Canterbury Smokefree Rockquest 2024 Regional Finals have seen Darfield High School band Artisan take top honours winning first place in their category. The band, which included Barnaby Maude on drums, Camden Waters on rhythm guitar, Daniel Thomas on bass, and Kevin Fagan on lead guitar, was up against 40 acts in the heats, which were narrowed down to just 16 bands at the finals. Darfield High School band Artisan won first place in their category; the band will now move Artisan will move on to the into stage two of the Canterbury Smokefree Rockquest 2024 competitions. next stage of the national Band members from left: Camden Waters, Barnaby Maude, Kevin Fagen and Daniel Thomas. competition. Stage three includes an invitation to assessed and judged by a announced. Stage four what they had achieved. “We submit a three-song video. panel of industry professionals includes a reassessment by a have all competed in The videos are viewed, before the Top 30 are new panel of industry Rockquest previously but heavyweights and the top 10 never got the top spot, so it acts are selected as the was great to get it in our last National Finalists. Stage five is year of school. We were not the opportunity for the expecting the win at all as finalists to shine with live there was a lot of awesome performances at the National talent from the other acts, so Final. our announcement for first Artisan musician and came as a big surprise.” spokesperson for the band Barnaby says the band spent Barnaby Maude says the band many hours writing and was very happy and proud of perfecting their pieces, including countless break times and music periods working on their act. Artisan also had the support of both students and teachers. “It was very cool to see so many people come and watch, and I'd like to think they got their money's worth based on the result,” says Barnaby. He also offered a big shoutout to Yorris Kremers, Blake Wooley, and Felix Jennings for repping the custom-made Artisan merchandise. The national finals will be held later in the year in Auckland.