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THE GALLANT SWEATING ON POLL BREAKTHROUGH |
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
A major shake-up in a national online band poll has left Brisbane four-piece The Gallant sweating on an exciting breakthrough opportunity.
Brisbane’s highest rating band in the current Sony-sponsored UncharTED competition (www.uncharted.com.au), The Gallant are in Sydney this weekend supporting fellow Brisbane alt-rockers Intercooler.
But they’re hoping their loyal local fans will continue to take up the challenge of securing them a place in the semi-finals – they’re sitting fourth in a field of almost 600 bands, with the top three going through to the semis.
“We’d pretty much given up when several interstate bands got a massive amount of votes in pretty quick time and got right away from us on the leaderboard,’’ The Gallant’s drummer Sam Thomson said.
“But the organisers apparently did a major audit this week to check on any vote rorting and a couple of those bands have simply disappeared out of sight while we’ve jumped from sixth to fourth.
“So with daily voting running through till June 30 we think we’ve got a real shot at making the semis if our hardcore supporters, and others who get behind us now, can go the distance.’’
UncharTED contenders are vying for a major prize which includes a Sony BMG/Red Label record deal and a spot on the national Big Day Out tour.
Check out The Gallant at: www.myspace.com/thegallantband
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