Battle Of The Bands

Battle of the Bands

We are SOLD OUT. Click the category "direction" for directions and parking instructions.

sfBig is excited to announce the first Battle of the Bands competition being held at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday, August 4th. This event, sponsored by YuMe and brought to you by sfBIG, will donate proceeds to benefit the San Francisco Unified School District's Department of Visual and Performing Arts. The night promises you and your colleauges to experience the best local bands formed from the best San Francisco agencies. This event will be judged by you, the audience, to choose the best agency band.

To all musicians, make sure you sign your band up. Bragging rights are at stake. If you are interested in participating as a band, please download the attached application and return via email to SFBigBattle@gmail.com by Friday, July 23rd, 2010.

Buy your tickets now via Eventbrite. SOLD OUT! Sorry for all of those who have been trying to get tickets, sold out tickets to the event Monday August, 2nd. We will have a lot of coverage to share about the event in coming week. There is always next year.

Rainbow Brite & The Flaming Cobra Death Skulls - Debut Performance

The 2nd band to take the stage at sfBIG's inaugural event.  Members included employees from Adify and AKQA.  Their opening number below.  

Directions and Parking for American Music Hall - Battle of the Bands 2010

sfBig Members, the day is here to ROCK OUT with the first ever Battle of the Bands sponsored by YuMe.

The doors will open at 6:30pm for General Admission, make sure you have your ticket printed and ID ready as this is a 21 and over event.

Public Transportation:

• By Bart get off at the Civic Center Station. Walk out the 8th Street exit. Walk towards City Hall on Grove Street three blocks to Polk. Make a right on Polk and walk up approx. six blocks to O'Farrell. The Great American Music Hall will be on your right.
• By bus the 38 Geary bus towards downtown stops on the corner of Polk and O'Farrell, one door before the Great American Music Hall. The 38 Geary going towards the avenues stops at the corner of Van Ness and Geary. Walk one block down the hill on Van Ness and make a left on O'Farrell. The Great American Music Hall is 1 1/2 blocks down on your right.
• By Taxi Approximately $5 from Union Square and points downtown. The Great American Music Hall is on O'Farrell between Polk and Larkin Streets.

Driving
For those of you driving, Validated parking facilities at AMC1000 theater garage on O'Farrell (between Van Ness and Polk) ($10 for 4 hours) and public on Post Street (between Polk and Van Ness). Limited street parking available in the vicinity.

Reminder:
This is a SOLD OUT event so make sure you get there early, you will not want to miss any of the acts.

The 5 finalist for Wednesday's line-up are...

As the rock band Europe sang, it's The Final Countdown.  Three more days until sfBIG's epic musical event of the year – Battle of the Bands.  You've endured the anticipation long enough so without further ado, allow us to introduce you to the top five bands that are finalists in the stage showdown.

Big Light

Chief Enablers

Lovebutter, representing Universal-McCann

Rainbow Brite & The Flaming Cobra Death Skulls, representing Adify

Slipstream Sparrows, representing a mix of Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, and Universal-McCann

Let's Rock!

Alice @97.3's DJ to MC Battle of the Bands

Alice @97.3 will have their very own Hooman Khalili, otherwise known as just “Hooman!,” (often shouted with the famous Arsenio Hall arm movement) to MC’s Battle of the Bands event. For those of you have not listen, seen or read anything Hooman I highly recommend a listen to Alice's morning show or check out his Facebook or Youtube page - he is pretty hilarious and a huge movie buff. 

A special thanks to Stephanie Yang, of AKQA, for bringing in Hooman to MC this event.

BIO

Hooman Khalili is currently a DJ for Alice@97.3 radio for the morning show featuring Sarah and Vinnie.  He is also a celebrity interview for Alice, covering all the red-carpet premieres.  His YouTube channel page boasts over 12 million view and some his most recent interviews include Jack Black, Charlize Theron, and John Cho.

Let's Rock!

 

And did we mention these awesome Tshirts?

As if the 5 bands performing at this event wasn't enough of a draw, then perhaps we can entice you with these sweet custom T-shirts made especially for Battle of the Bands?  For you fashionistas, the v-neck soft-cotton charcoal grey American Apparel's will have wearability long after the show.  And for those classic Americana traditionalists, the Hanes beefy tees are right up your alley.  Whatever cotton you choose, rest assured; you're sporting an original.  We'll be selling these threads the night of the event for $15 each.  Quantities are limited, and if you know any sfBIG event, you know that this too will be sold out fast.  

  

Sneak Peek at Competition

Curious to see what the competition has in store for next week's event?  Check out some of the undeniable musical talent that San Francisco's agencies house.  Universal-McCann's Love Butter's cover of Sweet Child O' Mine would make Axl proud.  And Butler Shine Stern & Partner's Slipstream Sparrows soars to unbelievable heights.  Who's going to take home the coveted 4 foot trophy?  Who's going to taste defeat?  Who knows?  Only way to find out is to show up. 

 

SF - Let's "Jump" and show NYC that we too have musical talent

Below is a clip from the Battle of the Ad Bands in New York for Advertising Week in 2009.  The reigning champions out of McCann NY, More Effing Cowbells, perform the forever famous Van Halen song "Jump". I don't know about you, but I am excited to see what talents San Francisco has to showcase for our first Battle of the Bands at American Music Hall on Wednesday August, 4th. 

Which agency do you think will showcase the most talent? Can McCann be the coast to coast reigning champions or will an agency like Agency.com step and take it for the west?

Let us know which agency you think has the musical talent and share it on Facebook.