Revealed: Camerons rocks
CMS Cameron McKenna emerged victorious from a hard-fought inaugural Law Rocks battle of the bands last night.
Six groups from five law firms and one barristers chambers rocked a hot and sweaty 100 Club in London in front of a partisan and highly vocal audience.
A hand-picked panel of judges featuring editor of The Lawyer Catrin Griffiths, Ince & Co partner David Steward and Jake Leighton-Pope of music agency Creative Artists deliberated throughout the evening while compere Mr Justice Peter Coulson kept order.
Performers were marked on a range of criteria including energy and enthusiasm, quality and presentation.
“I never knew there was so much musical talent in the legal market,” said Griffiths. “They went all the way up to eleven.”
Camerons’ group, The Stragglers, was third on the stage. The band launched into a cover of the Dandy Warhols’ Bohemian Like You to get the crowd going but it was The Killers’ All These Things That I Have Done that propelled the six-piece group into a sing-off final against Nabarro’s band Music Matters.
Keating Chambers senior clerk Nick Child was the brains behind the legal market’s first-ever battle of the bands.
“It couldn’t have gone any better,” said Child. “Everyone genuinely had a really good time, but if it wasn’t for everyone’s enthusiasm it wouldn’t have been the event it was. I’m already looking forward to organising the next one.”
Last night’s Law Rocks event raised more than £5,000, with each group nominating a charity of its choice.
Camerons raised around £3,000 for The Rainbow Trust, while the bands from Keating Chambers, Addleshaw Goddard, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Lovells and Nabarro raised around £400 each for their chosen charities.
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:04 pm
Keating Chambers band was robbed. Raw unbridled talent.
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:08 pm
In terms of energy and performance, nothing was better that the Keating Chambers Band. How they did not win is a mystery to rival that of an Agatha Christie novel.
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:09 pm
Cannot agree more with previous comments - Keating Chambers version of All Right Now, plainly as good as it gets
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:15 pm
Rubbish. It woz BLP wot woz robbed. They should have got it with their version of Oh what a Night.
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:30 pm
Keating Chambers truly rocked the other bands out of the competition. They were indeed robbed
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:42 pm
Who was that lass in the Nabarros band who was just wearing knickers and no trousers? Very crowd-pleasing!
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 3:51 pm
The music industry hit out last night at the legal profession’s latest attempts to bolster waning partner profits by forming rock bands.
‘This is obviously a desperate revenue-grab,’ said Marvin T’Ossrag of the Musical Monopolists National Socialist Collecting Society. ‘It’s yet another sleazy attack on the music industry by a bunch of pirates whose actions will only end up leading to the destruction of Western civilization.’
The attack came after a group of lawyers who really should be tied to their desks in the City doing deals turned up at the 100 Club for an 80s stylee ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition in which the winning band would, it was rumoured, be exempted from their firm’s next redundancy consultation round. All proceeds from the event went to charity.
‘It’s clearly disgusting and a breach of everything we regard as sacred for this money to be going to save pandas or children with cancer or something when in fact it should be lining the pockets of the multimillionaire stars of rock and pop whose songs these bands clearly stole in order to present on stage, despite the long and tedious warnings – drafted by the lawyers themselves – which are inside every overpriced CD we sell,’ said T’Ossrag.
The winners of the competition – CMS Cameron McKenna’s “The Stragglers” – were duly surprised to find music industry lawyers standing at the side of the stage ready to slap an injunction on them following their rendition of the Killers’ ‘All These Things That I Have Done’.
‘The maximum penalty for copyright theft and public performance like this is a £4.2bn fine and 20 years’ hard labour for every lawbreaker and all their extended family on Anthrax Island, off the coast of Scotland (not, as some believe, another name for the Isle of Man),’ said T’Ossrag.
‘It is totally clear to us now that this band intends to fee-earn on the side, not only recording albums of cover versions without permission but encouraging hordes of teenage girls to download their songs and other songs infected by this pernicious virus to their iPhones, thereby ensuring the destruction of the music industry within five years and the collapse of civilization as we know it the week after.’
The Music Industry is old, but persists in acting as if it’s not.
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 5:07 pm
I think knickers lady was Cheryl Richards.
Completely agree that Rough Justice was robbed - stonking songs and a rare diamond in a certain lead guitar playing QC....
Plus I've always been a sucker for a piccolo trumpette...
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 5:19 pm
obviously the court day has come to an end and the entire Keating chambers is blogging! My vote went to Nabarros, and not because of the knickers lady, but because of their knockout front man. What a god!
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Anonymous | 19-Jun-2009 7:50 pm
As an impartial spectator i must say i was seriously surprised that Lovells didn't win! They were by far the most talented musicians and I think most of the crowd were taken aback that they didn't even end up in the final 2!! Enjoyed the whole night but, in all seriousness, it was Lovells' trophy.
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