Huge congratulations to all our Northern Composure Band Competition 2018 finalists who played to a sold out crowd at Manly Youth Centre on Friday 13 April.

Special congratulations go to the overall Judges Award winner, Astral Plane, whose all-round performance, including a couple of classic covers, blew the judges away.

Astral Plane is comprised of Patrick Scognamiglio, Anna Walding, Sam Rimmer, Harry Barwell and Callum Hulme. The next step in Astral Plane’s career is getting ready to support Kingswood and The Delta Riggs on Friday 4 May at the Northern Beaches PCYC in Dee Why.

The full list of winners is:

• Astral Plane (Judges Winner)
• Scoot The Loot (2nd Judges Choice)
• Hot Heads (3rd Judges Choice)
• Heartlake: (Audience Choice Winner)
• Colonel Skunk and the Spunk Monkeys (2nd Audience Choice)
• Edgecliff (3rd Audience Choice)

Thanks also go to the event sponsors who threw their support behind this competition to help make it such a great success: KALOF, Manly Daily, Continuumusic, Jaminajar, RAW FM, Mall Music, Perfect Pitch, Hurley, Northern Beaches PCYC, Roland, Boss, Northern Beaches Youth Bands, Headspace Brookvale, and National Youth Week.