College band wins prestigious competition

Last week College band Mango won the Punch Tarmey’s Battle of the Bands competition in Liverpool winning a top prize of £2,000!

Mango is an all-girl rock band formed at Winstanley last year by music performance students: Freya, Hannah, Izzy, Amber and Maria with this event being their first ever live gig outside of College. The girls picked their favourite songs to play from a variety of genres so there was something for everyone and also performed their first original song ‘Amber Leaf’.

When asked about how they felt about winning such a competitive competition the band said, “After winning Punch Tarmey’s Battle of the Bands competition, we are extremely overjoyed, proud and still in shock! When entering, we knew we would have to put a lot of effort into it as in comparison to other bands we had very little gig experience.” They then went on to say, “it was our first ever live gig since being a band, so to win the competition was a massive deal to us. We were all over the moon, it gave us so much hope for our future as a band. Even if we hadn’t won, we all had an incredible time and just getting the experience was so exciting!”

If you wish to see clips from the evening of the band performing follow the link to their Instagram page below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcoTg2LtdQr/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Mango’s next gig will be on Saturday 9^th July when they perform at the Haydock Music Festival at Haydock Cricket Club.

Do you think you could be in the next Mango? If so then why don’t you take a look at our fantastic music courses? At Winstanley we have Music A-level, Music Performance and Music Technology so there really is something for every music ability.

https://www.winstanley.ac.uk/86/subjects/subject/41/music-performance