Good day, patrons of 'Peka-Boo'. How awfully whimsical a festival name. Have you all managed to stop fighting over tickets yet? Don't fret, there's still plenty of time left before the festival begins and there are dozens more things to fight over. (Ha! Fret. Frets are a part of stringed instruments, and I am an expert violinist. Good show, me.)



Anyway, what I'm here to tell you about today is the Battle of the Bands. I've been put in charge of it, although I personally wanted to use the festival as a platform to promote my own classical band, Goodbye Virelai, but Rosemary was insistent it should be all new music, so here we are. What SHE is looking for is for our ticket-holders to pick a music genre and form a band together (or vice versa). You need to give us a good idea of what your band is all about, come up with as great a band name as you can manage (obviously my own is a great example of excellent taste), and the kind of stage apparel that's going to set you apart. In this unique and diverse music world we live in. Good luck to those in the pop genre, ha.



We've gone out of our way and created a special submissions form for you to get your bands together, heavens knows you probably couldn't organize a basket of cats without some help, and if you're shy about approaching people you can choose to be assigned to a random (public) band, or you can just stay by the food trucks, eating your feelings. We've also opened up a special forum for everyone to discuss everything in, (well, everything band related, please try to refrain from discussing what happened on last night's episode of Subeta's Got Talent), as well as form bands, ask for band members or help in styling the perfect outfit. Or most appropriate outfit. Or funniest outfit, I do sometimes enjoy a non-judgmental laugh. Oh, and we'll put up an FAQ in there once we've had some...FAQs. Submissions for Battle of the Bands will close at midnight on Sunday 20th July - I imagine Rosemary will handle that, I'll be in the VIP lounge away from the people that are without access to the good showers. At that point, our judges will go through the bands, and pick out some finalists from each music category to begin the second phase of battling on Wednesday 23rd July. These will be judged by festival-goers themselves, with the winners of each music genre and the grand festival champion being announced on the 27th.



There will be prizes for entering, prizes for getting into the finals, and of course prizes for winning. Honestly, does nobody do anything just for fun anymore?



So what are you waiting for? Get your submissions in!