Garin bands sweep rockquest regionals

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Garin College teenagers screamed in celebration at the Smokefreerockquest regional finals, as the school’s funky four-piece Oh Blok was named best band and harmonic pairing Livvy and Anna top duo.

Twelve acts, from schools around the region, battled it out in front of a full capacity mosh pit at Nelson’s Theatre Royal last night.

Oh Blok, featuring Garin College year 12 students Louie Persico, Paddy Sanders and Josh Barker and Kieran O’Connor from year 10 won at their third attempt in the regional Smokefreerockquest competition.

Keyboardist Paddy said the band was “sort of pop-indie, but we don’t really like to be genre-named”.

“We just love the music we play and the crowd makes us pumped up,” he said. Continue reading

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