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There's a rather big battle of the bands taking place at London's O2 on Saturday.
It's the national Surface Unsigned 2010 final, which means after months of heats up and down the country, 12,000 acts have been whittled down to just 16.
And Leicestershire can lay claim to three of them, which is pretty impressive, we happen to think here at The Week.
County oil painting bands have done very well in the competition over the years. The Chairmen won in 2008 and last year, The Heroes and Slaine made it through to the final.
We thought it would be nice to introduce you to this year's contenders.
Great Imitation A four-piece hip-hop act from Coalville who have supported chart-toppers such as Tinchy Stryder Pixie Lott and, erm, Chesney Hawkes in the short time they've been together and they've now been asked to play with Diana Vickers as well.
A pretty impressive musical CV for a band that's just 18 months old. And their lead singer is also a stand-up comedian, so expect a riotous show.
"The live shows are pretty entertaining," says bass player Mark Connor. "It gets us noticed.
oil painting We played Summer Sundae oil painting last year and it's pretty much snowballed from there. "When they called our name for the final, it was brilliant, I've never had a feeling like it before.
"It's weird, people keep coming up to us and buying us drinks and congratulating us, people we haven't see in ages.
"We're really looking forward to the final."
What can people expect from a Great Imitation gig? "We're kind of quite hard to describe. We call it polite crunk."
Axis Mundi If the Beetlejuice-on-acid look is anything to go by, we reckon an Axis Mundi gig would make for an interesting evening. The Hinckley five-piece, who describe themselves as "the mystic amusement melody circus," have only been together a year but they've already garnered a bit of a cult following.
"The stage show is inspired by "90s rave culture, 60s psychedelia, western occultism and bad taste," says lead singer Shaun Garner.
"Our crowd have also adopted the band's image as their own. "They're the noisy ones with the surreal costumes, air horns, mega phones and space hoppers and they're a vital and irreplaceable part of the whole Mundi experience."
The band hadn't considered winning Surface Unsigned until they made it to the final. "We did it in typical boring football fashion, taking each round as it came.
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"We were focusing on the performance and getting people down to the live shows and just thought, 'If we do well then that's great.' "But we're obviously delighted to be in the final. We've always had confidence in what we're doing as something that's genuinely different."
Charlie and the Martyrs Probably the most well-known of our three Leicestershire bands, the lovely Charlie Jones and her band of Martyrs have been together for just under two years. They play feelgood guitar pop and have gone down pretty well with Surface Unsigned judges so far in the competition, racking up an impressive 31/32 in their marks for the regional final.
"It's absolutely brilliant to be in the final, each round we've just played not expecting anything and every time our name's been called it's been a Christian Louboutin Shoes
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