The Band Experiments

Waikato Times article from September 2002, detailing that year's competition

The Band Experiments was a band competition similar to the Battle of the Bands, organised and supported by Click Sound. Inaugural winners in 2000 were the Dead Pan Rangers. In its innaugural year, several bands changed their names for the Band Experiments to avoid being removed from the playlist of UFM, who at that time ran the annual Battle of the Bands. The last original Band Experiments competition was held in 2002, but was revived by Mammoth in 2008 at Flow, with Sora Shima winning the competition.

Winners

(Click years for details on heats).

2000: Dead Pan Rangers
2001: Daisy Chain Halo
2002: Nimbus
2008: Sora Shima
2009: Knights of the Dub Table
2010: Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgangers

Review of the final of the 2000 competition in Fusion magazine

Published Articles

• City Musicians Switch Titles in Bid to Win Battle of the Ban, Waikato Times, 6 June 2000, P3
• Radio Station Backs Down on Plans to Blacklist Bands, Waikato Times, 14 June 2000, P14