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A Ballina band has taken home €8,000 in prize money after winning a national radio competition last week.
Ballina band wins national radio competition
Ciara Galvin
BALLINA band ‘Flat Out’ took a cheque home to Mayo after they won the Le Crunch Apple of My Eye song contest .
The band won €8,000 after winning the competition which was held at The Sugar Club in Dublin and was broadcast live on Today FM last Friday. Flat Out beat off stiff competition with over 1,000 entries vying for first prize.
The competition was judged by Royseven’s Paul Walsh, singer songwriter Roisin O and Le Crunch’s Claire Colman.
Flat Out performed the song ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ by ‘Foster The People’ at a packed Sugar Club.
Speaking after the final, Claire Colman from Le Crunch said the judges were pleasantly surprised by the ‘amazing quality of entries’.
“On behalf of Le Crunch, the judges and Today FM, I’d like to congratulate Flat Out and wish them all the best for the future.
“Hopefully it’s a name that we will hear lots about in years to come,” said Claire.
Brid, Ciara, Harry and Mark describe themselves as a ‘Trad/modern cover band’ that play songs from an eclectic mix of artists including Florence and the Machine, Mary Black, Mumford and Sons and SeΡn Keane.
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