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ATL RockSchool returns
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Across The Line continues its commitment to new local music as ATL RockSchool returns to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland for the third year running.
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On Saturday 16 February at 8.00pm, ATL RockSchool will see six more talented young rock bands from Northern Ireland compete for the ATL RockSchool trophy.
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ATL's Rigsy and new ´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland presenter Jill Morgan will host this music contest as the young bands get to show off their talents by playing live to an audience in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Blackstaff Studios before being judged by top-notch industry professionals.
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On the judging panel are singer/songwriter Sandi Thom, NME and ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music's Imran Ahmed and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1 in Northern Ireland presenter Rory McConnell.
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The judges will be putting their professional experience to good use to offer the young bands some valuable advice and ultimately choose the winner of ATL RockSchool.
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Rigsy says: "RockSchool is both a pleasure and a total nightmare to work on. It's a laugh because everyone is so young and talented, but it's also a total nightmare because everyone is so young and talented. It's both impressive and deeply upsetting!
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"In all seriousness though, this is our third time doing it and the standard is higher than ever.
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"Production-wise we've also stepped up a gear, to match the incredible enthusiasm on display with all six finalists."
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Jill Morgan says: "I was full of excitement about presenting ATL RockSchool for the first time, if not slightly daunted by the prospect of it.
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"The atmosphere on the night was amazing, the bands were rocking, full of enthusiasm and really professional.
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"I had to keep reminding myself that I was working and it wasn't my job to air guitar!"
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It's a contest that the young hopefuls have been gearing up to for many months now.
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Applications for ATL RockSchool were made available last year and in the following months young bands from around Northern Ireland were flooding the ATL desks with demos containing two original songs.
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After a series of live heats, the hopefuls were whittled down to the six bands who can be seen competing in the ATL RockSchool final.
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These six bands – many of whom are still in school – put the talent into talent contest as they write and perform their own original tracks on the programme in front of a live audience and expert judges, with one goal: to win ATL RockSchool.
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Winning the contest will not only get the band the title of ATL RockSchool winner and plenty of television exposure, they will join the likes of Coldplay, Foo Fighters and Chemical Brothers by getting a feature on ATL TV and get a promotional video made of one of their
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The six bands who are competing in the final are: Newtownabbey's 6 Days Later, The Q from Londonderry, The Shots from Belfast, The Station from Downpatrick, The Good Fight from Coleraine and Carrickfergus and Wednesday Adams from Waringstown.
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Last year's ATL RockSchool winners Nice n Sleazy played the ViTal 07 festival on the same bill as Razorlight and the Manic Street Preachers.
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ATL RockSchool, Saturday 16 February 2008, 8.00pm, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two NI Ìý
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