======Popomundo Festivals====== Popofests are special competitions, that are held by Jeanne Stjärnblom (who took over from Melvin Stjärnblom after his death). They don't happen on a regular basis and only the best bands in the world can take part. To take part, bands have to sign up for one of the 16 preliminaries, which happen in parks of 16 different cities. The top 4 from each preliminary competition make it to Popofest. (before Festival VII there were 8 preliminaries in clubs in 8 different cities. The clubs got selected by Jeanne, after their owners signed themselves up for it. The top 5 from each preliminary competition made it to Popofest.) There are character achievements and also artist badges for the top three bands. Also everyone, who takes part in the main event gets an achievement from Popofest VI on. =====Popofests===== =====Popmundo Festival VII===== **Location:** The Popmundo Festival Grounds in Stockholm \\ **Time:** 45/1- 45/8 (September 30 - October 7 2009) \\ **Trivia:** * The first festival after ages gets hosted by Jeanne with the help of the newly formed Ministry of Music. It was formed to host festivals every 4-5 Popoyears. * The cities that hosted the prelims where Seattle, Montreal, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Shanghai, Bucharest, Izmir, Budapest, Vilnius, Warsaw, Helsinki, Berlin, Glasgow, Paris, Rome and Porto. * The Ministry of Music consisted of prime minister [[:people:Connie Perkins]] and the ministers [[:people:Stephan Adamson]], [[:people:Glaucimar Bueno Damião]], [[:people:Tonya Cullen]], [[:people:Michael Gallagher]], [[:people:Darrell Gill]], [[:people:Hartmut Hake]], [[:people:Sara Hansen]], [[:people:Keimo Ikäheimonen]], [[:people:Fritz-Georg Jakobs]], [[:people:Tara John]], [[:people:Bernard Mackenzie]], [[:people:Benjamin Murray]], [[:people:Robin O'Connor]], [[:people:Mark Pedersen]], [[:people:Jeanne Stjärnblom]], [[:people:Des Swink]], [[:people:Pauline van Agt]] and [[:people:Jonas Zapatero]]. * There were made some changes in the rules. There are 16 prelims instead of 8, the prelims happen in city parks, minimum show quality of sweet is required (that rule will be lifted 2 weeks after the sign- ups have started). __**Final Standings**__ (complete list: CompetitionID=53848) | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | Çiko | GOD SMACKING | | 2 | Del Cray-Z | GOD SMACKING | |3 | Equimanthorn | GOD SMACKING | =====Popomundo Festival VI===== **Location:** Parque de Chapultepec in Mexico City \\ **Time:** 28/55- 29/6 (April 16- 23 2007) \\ **Trivia:** * After an arson attack on the power plant of Mexico City, the power supply was provided by a hamster in a wheel. * Preliminaries were in: * Glasgow (CompetitionID=4573) * Rio de Janeiro (CompetitionID=4561) * Tromsø (CompetitionID=4249) * Vilnius (CompetitionID=4262) * Los Angeles (CompetitionID=4513) * Madrid (CompetitionID=4212) * Porto (CompetitionID=4565) * Istanbul (CompetitionID=4564) __**Final Standings**__ (complete list: CompetitionID=5808) | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | Pappateam | revolutionary | | 2 | Calamaris | revolutionary | |3 | Love & Death | revolutionary | =====Popomundo Festival V===== **Location:** Mac Arthur Park in Los Angeles \\ **Time:** 25/3- 25/10 (September 8- 15 2006)\\ **Trivia:** __**Final Standings**__ (complete list: CompetitionID=2157) | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | Disillusion | GOD SMACKINGLY GLORIOUS | | 2 | Musiconomy | GOD SMACKINGLY GLORIOUS | | 3 | Eye One Two | GOD SMACKINGLY GLORIOUS | =====Popomundo Festival IV===== **Location:** Parc Güell in Barcelona \\ **Time:** 20/55- 21/5 (January 23- 29 2006) \\ **Trivia:** __**Final Standings**__ (complete list: CompetitionID=438) | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | OneWayTrip | GOD SMACKING | | 2 | The Knights who say Ni! | incredible | | 3 | Emily Williams | incredible | =====Popomundo Festival III===== **Location:** Gorky Park in Moscow. \\ **Time:** 17/48 - 17/54 (August 1- 7 2005) \\ **Trivia:** * First Popofest with the back then freshly implemented competitionsystem. * The preliminaries were held in 8 clubs in the following cities: Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Toronto, London, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm and New York. __**Final Standings**__ (complete list: CompetitionID=117) | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | The Knights who say Ni! | earth shaking | | 2 | OneWayTrip | earth shaking | | 3| The Vanguard | revolutionary | =====Popomundo Festival II===== **Location:** Hyde Park in London. \\ **Time:** 13/13 - 13/17 (November 15-19 2004) \\ **Trivia:** * The Clubs selected for the preliminaries were:\\ New York: IndeRythm \\ London: The Funky Buddha Lounge \\ Stockholm: 7th Heaven \\ Melbourne: Sign of Gratitude \\ Los Angeles: The Lost Dot \\ * Lessie Cochran wrote a song about winning the Festival, called The Devil Went Down To Hyde Park (SongID=5975). * It's Pop #37 got an article about the happenings at the Festival. __**Final Standings**__ | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | Kissing Slits | terrific | | 2 | The Unbroken Few | great | | 3 | National Theatre | awesome | | 4 | BarbapapaZ | splendid | | 5 | The Knights who say Ni! | splendid | | 6 | x2 | sweet | | 7 |Fake Plastic Tree | sweet | | 8 | Dark Angel | good | | 9 | Counterattack | good | | 10 | Unjustified Dismissal | good | | 11 | Unlikely | good | | 12 | Phantasy | good | | 13 | TheTraktor | good | | 14 | Dr Prodigy | pleasant | | 15 | Paroxysm | pleasant | | 16 | RootDiggers | pleasant | | 17 | Melting Tree | pleasant | | 18 | DSPL | nice | | 19 | Charlotte Big | nice | | 20 | Serita | nice | | 21 | Les Claypool | decent | | 22 | Digital Divine | decent | | 23 | The Vanguard | decent | | 24 | Alex Osbourne | decent | | 25 | Martini Jean | above average | | 26 | Emma de Vine | above average | | 27 | AC/DC | above average | | 28 | Cameo in the night | above average | | 29 | seven's fallacy | above average | | 30 | Tepid Soul | mediocre | | 31 | Wyld Stallyns | mediocre | =====Popomundo Festival I===== **Location:** Central Park in New York. \\ **Time:** 10/55 - 11/5 (July 12-18 2004) \\ **Trivia:** * Melvin Stjärnblom handpicked the first bands to take part in a festival. * One copy of the new “Book of Composing” was be awarded to each of the top three contenders. This book wasn't on sale for another couple of weeks back then. * The consolation prize for smallest audience (a Basic Showmanship book) went to Paroxysm. __**Final Standings**__ | **Position** | **Band** | **Rating** | | 1 | National Theatre | Sweet | | 2 | The Unbroken Few | Pleasant | | 3 | Guerilla Band | Nice | | 4 | Barbapappaz | Above Average | | 5 | Fake Plastic Tree | Above Average | | 6 | Kissing Slits | Above Average | | 7 | Soulgate | Mediocre | | 8 | Mudlicker | Below Average | | 9 | Nuclear Nutcase | Below Average | | 10 | Sass | Below Average | | 11 | Paroxysm | Poor | | 12 | Kermit for President | Terrible | | 13 | Counterattack | Terrible | | 14 | Rubber Bracelet | Dreadful | | 15 | Depth Charge | Dropped Out | ===== References ===== * [[http://www.popmundo.com/Common/MinistryOfMusic.asp|Ministry of Music]]