D Nuts || December 26, 2006
Usually, contest news around town ranks along the likes of "up-and-coming teenage so-and-so wins Richardson's Rising Suburban Star Award," so we're happy to report a local contest winner with a prize actually worth getting jealous over. Radiant has won a Pontiac-sponsored contest to perform during this year's Jimmy Kimmel Live New Year's Eve. You wouldn't know it yet otherwise; the contest site, countdownto1.com, hasn't announced the winner as of press time, but drummer Daniel Hopkins is happy to allege the victory.
Radiant (...old, outdated photo, but perhaps the guys will take a new one after the Kimmel gig?)
"levi and jesse were watching jimmy kimmel one night, saw the advert and decided to sign up," he writes via e-mail. "they failed to tell anyone else, so you can imagine the state of shock and bewilderment i was in when a month later i received a phone call saying we were the winners. it took me about 5 minutes to figure out exactly what it was that we won."
The thing they've won, exactly, is national airtime on the ABC Times Square stage to perform the song "That Girl" from We Hope You Win, before ball-droppin' performances by Kasabian and My Chemical Romance. Hopkins couldn't confirm much else, including the exact time of the performance, so we hope he pops on here when he has more info to either e-mail us or just comment on the thread with further details.
Before posting this story, we flipped through the contest's rules to see if the guys won a car or anything. They didn't, but they are subject to this interesting tidbit: "As a result of weather, production and/or technical requirements, Sponsors in their sole discretion may elect to use the songs recorded at the pre-performance recording session for the New Year's Eve performance, with the Grand Prize Winner playing 'live to track' (i.e. the recorded music will be to track, but the vocals will be live)." We didn't ask the band about that since we're out of town, but we can imagine that such a decision is out of the band's hands and to be determined the night of the show. At any rate, here's to hoping Daniel isn't forced to air-drum. -SM
Radiant (...old, outdated photo, but perhaps the guys will take a new one after the Kimmel gig?)
"levi and jesse were watching jimmy kimmel one night, saw the advert and decided to sign up," he writes via e-mail. "they failed to tell anyone else, so you can imagine the state of shock and bewilderment i was in when a month later i received a phone call saying we were the winners. it took me about 5 minutes to figure out exactly what it was that we won."
The thing they've won, exactly, is national airtime on the ABC Times Square stage to perform the song "That Girl" from We Hope You Win, before ball-droppin' performances by Kasabian and My Chemical Romance. Hopkins couldn't confirm much else, including the exact time of the performance, so we hope he pops on here when he has more info to either e-mail us or just comment on the thread with further details.
Before posting this story, we flipped through the contest's rules to see if the guys won a car or anything. They didn't, but they are subject to this interesting tidbit: "As a result of weather, production and/or technical requirements, Sponsors in their sole discretion may elect to use the songs recorded at the pre-performance recording session for the New Year's Eve performance, with the Grand Prize Winner playing 'live to track' (i.e. the recorded music will be to track, but the vocals will be live)." We didn't ask the band about that since we're out of town, but we can imagine that such a decision is out of the band's hands and to be determined the night of the show. At any rate, here's to hoping Daniel isn't forced to air-drum. -SM
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