Students take Kool Skool awards
Students from Brisbane Water Secondary College have performed in Melbourne with several of them taking out awards in the Kool Skools national recording and multimedia competition.
Students had to write, produce, perform and record their own works.
They completed a CD entitled "Onwards to Mayhem" in Melbourne, which is now for sale through the school.
This year, a NSW event was not staged due to lack of sponsorship.
To participate, the only possibility was to travel to Tasmania or Melbourne.
Music teacher Ms Kris Faulkner and 15 students from Years 10, 1l and 12 made the trip to Melbourne to perform.
Ms Faulkner said that unfortunately, not being Victorians, they were ineligible to win the major Kool Skool award but could still enter individual categories.
Students who performed were Rachel Pratt, Josh Muller, Ashley Wilkinson, Tim Moretta, Megan Purcell, Tessa Nuku, Chris Waters, Ellie Plummer, Kate Whyman, and James Luke.
Megan's song was nominated for Best Commercial Track.
Beau Rankins and Tessa Nuku won the Special Judges Award for "Outstanding Rap Track".
Beau, also known as "Proda-G", won the award for "A Message" with Tessa on backing vocals.
Rock band, For the Moment, consisting of Toby Priddle-Malm, Tyler Bennison, Chris Walters and Billy Burgess, were nominated in the top four Best Alternate Rock Bands and won Best Alternative Rock Song.
Ms Faulkner said the event was topped off by the group given the prestige of performing the closing act for the presentation, a fitting reward for the best group at the event.
Ms Faulkner said that great work was also done for the project by Jessica Burgess who was nominated in the top three for her film clip, and Jessica Birrell who produced outstanding art work for the CD cover which the students produced
Ms Faulkner said the CD "Onwards to Mayhem" is the best the students have produce in the three years of the project and can be purchased from the senior campus.
Press release, November 4
Kris Faulkner, Brisbane Water Secondary College