Østkyst (East Coast) Rock 2002

Østkyst Rock was started in 1999 as a competition for young bands from the Youth Schools and Music Schools of Roskilde County. This year it was part of the County Rock Roskilde Championship with the winner and number two taking part in the finals at Gimle in Roskilde in April. 10 bands competed, and as usual they each had about 10 minutes to put up their gear, and 20 minutes to play.

The first band started at 16.00 and the last show ended at about 21.30, due to some delays.

This year there were mostly new bands, but Reaxion took part last year, and Stux was formed around the "veterans" and former winners (2000) Boomer. As usual when you took the various band members age into consideration, the quality was very high and varied, and in my opinion this year was the best ever, even if I missed my old friends Moonstone :-(

A band was supposed to play on stage, while the judges did their hard job, but due to a few delays, there wasn't time.

The results were ready at about 22.00, and a lot of surprisingly calm (mostly) band members waited eagerly in front of the stage. First the audience favorite was elected by lining each band perpendicular to the stage, asking the audience to continue their favorites line, and seeing which band had the longest row of people. Quite chaotic, but great fun to watch !!! - The unequaled winner was Reaxion.

Then the 3 winners were announced. Like last year Reaxion was third. Number two was Si'ga, and number one was Stux.

Have a look at Footstock, Moonstone, Sinai, Reaxion, and the thumbnails from 1999, 2000 and 2001 as well.

See the Bands and links to a few of the bands web-sites. There's a minor smoke-problem on some of the pictures.