Channel V launch pad - It's Rocking again!

The third season of Channel V’s Launchpad reality hunt show has been kicked off.
Channel V Launch Pad 3 reality show

In January 2009, bands were called for auditions from all over the country. Finally seven bands, Faridkot, Reverse Polarity, Cassini’s Division, Blank Noise, Workshop, Circus, and Prachir, were shortlisted. These seven bands entered the House of Rock on February 7, 2009, where they will stay for ten days and perform challenging tasks to win the contest.

During the ten days, the bands will be totally disconnected from the outer world. The seven bands will be trained and mentored by Vishal Dadlani and provided a jam room to make their music.

On his stay in the house, IP Singh, vocalist of Faridkot commented, “It’s good being here, it’s definitely better than working at the office, and we are doing what we like here - making music.”

Faridkot have also been nominated for the Jack Daniel’s Rock Awards to be held in coming weeks for their song Madhav. ” I don’t think we’ll be able to attend that,” Singh said.

One of the tasks given to the seven bands on Day One was to voluntarily pick out one word and make a song out of it in ten minutes. Songs were made on words like Mummy (Faridkot), Pappu (Prachir), Waxing (Cassini’s Division), Bra (Reverse Polarity), Boyfriend (Blank Noise), 420 (Workshop).



There are some band members who have to sit for exams in a few weeks time. Despite that they are completely focused on their music.

The bands will also perform three gigs at the Blue Frog, on February 2, 5, and 9, 2009. They will be judged by a jury comprising Vishal Dadlani, SHAA’IR + FUNC, Ashutosh Phatak, Dhruv Ghanekar, Shekhar, and Raghu Dikshit.

The band that wins the Channel V Launchpad 3 reality show will get to cut an album, secure a record label deal, publish their photo on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and shoot a music video with Channel V.

Faridkot, Cassini's Division and Reverse Polarity were the three finalists of Channel [V] Launch Pad's newest season. Reverse Polarity unexpectedly triumphed at the talent hunt, while the crowd swayed to Faridkot's tunes.

The Launchpad was special this year for another reason - not only the English bands but also the regional bands were featured. It was a 'Concert for Change' wherein all the social issues including voting, terrorist attacks, political issues were raised. The high point was that, Channel V partnered with BigAdda.com, the Reliance ADAG social networking website, to promote the show.

After the bands performed, there were performances by Anoushka Manchanda, Raghu Dixit, Bappi Lahiri and Kailash Kher.

Bappi Da and Raghu announced their upcoming albums whereas Kailash premiered 'Kailasa Chaandan mein',the third album of Kailasa which is to be released in June. He sang two tracks from his new album, apart from his old hit numbers like, Teri Dewani and Bum Lahiri.

It was really astonishing to witness Lahiri perform at a youth concert, and have the youth swaying to his restructured disco numbers. Bappi Da's son Bappa was on the drums, working in tandem with Bappi's hit disco tunes.

And the winner for channel V launch Pad Season III is Reverse polarity. Song they played on final concert was JOHNY - HORNY , BRA.

However from the curent bands, Reverse Polarity and Faridkot are worth the money. RP have a great drummer and cheeky lyrics. Their song ' Johnny Horny' is worth a laugh and must be heard. Their lead singer is naughtylicious! :P