The madness has begun. It is that time of the year again when crowds throng to cheer on their friends when the giants of the music industry come together with the hope of discovering new and raw talent.
Presented by the TNL radio network, TNL onstage is back for the twelfth consecutive year and all that can be said is that the standards keep getting better and better every year.
Kicking the competition off was the First Preliminary Round held on Friday 8 June at the Galadari Hotel.
Four soloists and four bands with the hope of making it to the next round gave it their all to impress the three judges who comprised Senal Kapugeekiyana, Andrew Obeysekara and Dr. Christo Fernando.
Melissa Perera (pictured here), the only female taking part in this year’s solo category certainly gave the boys a run for their money with an amazing cover of ‘We Are Young’.
Prabodya who performed one of the best covers of Bon Jovi’s ‘Always’ also performed exceptionally well and was able to win the crowd’s support and was voted to be in the encore round.
Out of the bands, Disclaimer sounded great; especially the vocalist who had a voice greatly similar to that of Suresh of Stigmata in their first album ‘Hollow Dreams’.
All in all, it was a fantastic evening; so far the Solo Rounds seem to have the toughest competition but this is only the beginning of what seems to be an insane ride!
(Reihan Stephen)
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Faqi says:
Jun 15, 2012 at 12:02 amAll your videos are so dark one could hardly make out the people The simple solution is a video LIGHT when filming. Is that a difficult thing to do. Do you realize it ? One cannot make head or tail of the videos. Use a light please.