Please find below, in NO particular order, the bands that will be competing at this years Smokefree Pacifica Beats National Final on Saturday 26 September;

Soul Fuzion Reporoa College, Bay of Plenty
Sweetness De La Salle College, Auckland
Te Paamu TKKM o te Rito, Wellington
Chidren of the System Flaxmere College, East Coast
Politics Whangarei Boys College, Northland
Babylon Rhythm Tamaki College, Auckland

Congratulations to ALL the bands that competed in this years competition!!! We'll be updating this page again VERY soon w info on the National Final as well as posting up the rest of the regions results in our blog... stay tuned whanau...

Kiaoracations e te iwi!!

Mana College was hosting us for the Porirua regional final last Saturday and I just wanna give a big shout out to Roni, Jim and the students for making us feel so welcome

Even though we had over a dozen bands enter for the region this year only 6 were able to make it on the day so we changed it up a bit in terms of how we ran the show... we had our soundchecks from 3pm till bout 4.30 and the comp started at 5.30pm.

Small but perfectly formed whanau.

Judges on the night were Ngaire Coley and Tyna Keelan and both of them were totally blown away by the range of skill, talent and enthusiasm that the rangatahi brought to the stage - ka mau te wehi!! Our MC, Ria Hall, did an amazing job, had a great time and is reeeeaally looking forward to checking out the Top6 on stage next month

So, you guys are probably keen to know who took out the prizes eh? Here are the results below;

1st place: Te Paamu from Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o te Rito
2nd equal: Tone Def from Aotea College and MC ALAH from Mana College
APRA Best Song Award: Yr 12 & 13 Music Class from Mana College for "It's Just The Way It Is"
Smokefree Mana Wahine: Mejic Paora, lead vocals for Te Paamu, TKKM o te Rito
Smokefree Best Vocals: MC ALAH from Mana College
YPT Native Language: Te Paamu from TKKM o te Rito
YPT Stage Image: Tone Def from Aotea College

Congratulations to ALL of the bands that took the stage, regardless of whether you took prizes or not. The fact you're out there doing what you love and making it happen is the main thing and please remember that this competition is only a very small part of the rest of your lives making music ok??

To those that made the Top2, KEEP REHEARSING OK??? Good luck for Top6 judging and don't be shy to drop us a line with any patai you have alright??

Take care guys, will update our page soon with the pics

xxx

Kia ora kia ora whanau!!

Well. Don't know where to start do I?? Saturday was one of the craziest coolest events we've run in the last four years. fullstop. The turnout was amazing, so much support from family and friends, THIS is what makes our culture so wicked, our team was humbled by all of the positive comments and talent in the room . To everyone that took the time to rock up and check it out... a MASSIVE CHURR TO THE CHURRRRR to all of you

So, we had 27 bands compete on the day, the MAI FM street team came and hung allllll arvo and we had Koha on stage doing the do as our MC!! Too much sistah, you were mean maori mean alrite!!!

We were also stoked to have along the IAMTV crew and the Pacific Beat Street whanau, everyone keep an eye out on Saturday 22 August - both those shows will go to air that day - omg i'ts the same day as our AUCKLAND REGIONAL FINAL!!

Next door at the Rec Centre we had the ToaToa dance competition rockin the whare and we're pleased to announce we'll have those Top4 dance crews on stage at our Akld finals as wel I'm gonna find out who those fullahs are later today and will update our blog once I've got the info...

... meanwhile, we're taking 11 bands to the stage on Saturday 22 August @ the YMCA on PItt St in town. Those bands are, in no particular order...

Politics from Whangarei Boys High School
Oh Woziz from Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Babylon Rhythm from Tamaki College
iiTunez from Alfriston College
Roots of Jah from Wesley College
Mo'Tif from Auckland Girls Grammar School
Tosafi from Marcellin College
Sweetness from De La Salle College
Azymuth from Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Cocokazian from Mt. Roskill Grammar School
Unified from Otahuhu College

Yeeeyuh!! The standard was the highest we've seen yet so to those of you that didn't make the next stage, don't take it personal guys and NO MATTER WHAT don't let this stop you from doing what you love ok??? Keep in touch with us and make sure you rock up the Akld regionals coz we'll have you all on the doorlist

Take care guys, will update our page soon with the pics

xxx