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■ BAND —From Page 1A ....“We competed against seven other bands from across the country. They were from places like New York. Boston, Seattle, and Georgia, and they were all really good.”The men of Daylight Broadcast signed up for the Campus MusicFest competition, which was sponsored by ATT, Gibson Guitars and Apple Computers, in late-winter. The group created a biography and downloaded songs to the competition website, which allowed fans to vote for bands prior to the regional contest, or semi-finals, in Austin in early-March.“We were kind of late getting signed up, but we ended up being the highest rated band in our region.” Babineaux continued. “And a committee representative called us and invited us to perform against three other bands from the region in Austin.”The five young men have been friends for many years. All graduated from Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School, except Comeaux, who attended Community Christian School in Orange.To be in the Campus MusicFest contest, theband members must be enrolled in a college or university and represent the school in their area. All five of the Daylight Broadcast members attend either Lamar University or Lamar State College-Orange, so they represented the Lamar University school system.Babineaux said event organizers paid to fly the band to Los Angeles last Friday morning, so the group could participate in the red carpet gala of Friday's opening of the Campus FilmFest.“There were so many famous people and media there,” Babineaux said. “1 saw Christian Slater and Pat Oswald. When we were walking on the red carpet to enter the venue, all of these media people were taking our pictures and asking who we were and why we were there. We were blown away by the whole experience.”According to Babineaux, the judging for Saturday's final round of competition was split into three segments — text votes from fans, previous rating from the contest website music and charts page, and the opinion of four judges from various media outlets and record companies,such as Fox Entertainment and Warner Bros. Records.After the text message voting round. Daylight Broadcast was in second place behind a female solo artist. However, the group's number 1 regional ranking put them in a good spot for the final round of scoring from the judges, which was based off Saturday’s three song performance.“We were the only band of the seven performing that didn't play the songs from our profile in our set,’’ Babineauxexplained. “Instead, we decided to go with three songs we have just written in the last month-and-a-half. We think these are our thr€'e best songs, and they just flow together, so that's why we did it. Maybe that is what helped.”The band's live performance obviously put them over the top. at least from what the judges decided.“The judges said they liked our spirit and our songwriting, Babineaux said as he started to laugh. “Plus, they said we represented the area we come from well. We were all just wearing button-up shirts, jeans and cowboy boots, so I guess that's what they meant.”Prizes awarded to Daylight Broadcast, for winning not only the regional contest, but the national competition too, include an iMac computer, plus extra hard drives, Apple TV. Pro Tools, Final Cut Studio software, a custom CMF Epiphone Guitar and iPod nanos for each member of the band.The group was also told it had a video shoot.“They told us afterwards they would pay to shoot a music video for us,” Babineaux said. But we are going to a wait a while before we shoot a video and do things right.”With the prize-winning equipment in hand. Babineaux said the band will start working on demo material immediately and hopes to record another album by the end of the year. The group just released its seven song E.P, Home is Where You Make It” in May.“We are our hardest critics,” Babineaux continued. And we thought we played a really bad show. Every one of the other bands sounded great and were top-notch. I just can't explain the feeling we all had when we found out we had won. I don't think any of us have slept yet sincewe got home early Sunday morning.”The band will perform a free show 011 July 13 at the Star Bar, located on Crockett Street in downtown Beaumont, as a way to thank you to everyone who has supported the group over the past year.We are all looking at this band like this might be our last opportunity at really making it. Babineaux said. But we want to stay true to our roots and our friends. We want to get to know everyone, but we want to do something different from everyone else. We’re all best friends in this band, and we ll enjoy it the whole way, 110 matter what happens.”For more information about Daylight Broadcast visit the band online at w w w. 111 y s p a ce. c o 111/d ay -lightbroad cast.Tommy Mann Jr. is a reporter lor The Orange Leader He can be reached at 409-883-3571, Ext. 2619
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