I’m pleased to announce that Das Cöbra won the third annual Battle of the Ad Bands at Crosstown Station on April 11th!
As performances go, I wouldn’t count it as the best. Our practices were better. The laptop that was firing the samples crashed during the first song. The vocals were mixed so that it was nearly impossible to hear the songs I was responsible for singing. But, when you get six grown men on stage wearing head to toe spandex and one other guy dressed as a drum-playing robot, you kind of don’t have to worry as much about the music.
So, people have been asking me “what’s next?” As far as performances go, we’ll perform an encore at next year’s Battle of the Ad Bands, but other than that there’s not much to tell. Friday night’s performance was always noted as being the band’s final performance of its career in the back story we created on Das Cöbra’s site. Unless we get a huge surge in interest, we plan to keep it that way. Besides, the suits reek like you wouldn’t believe. I don’t think you could pay most of us to get back into them.
We will most likely continue to release music. I think we got some studio time as part of our prize package, so that’ll give us a chance to record our songs and have an album. We’ll probably also stray away from the schtick of our songs all being advertising related. That’s a pretty narrow joke that limits the appeal of the music I think.
Thanks to everyone who showed up and supported us through your votes and your enthusiasm. Thanks to the other bands who were cool and enjoyed our performance art.
