Fantastic news! Crescendolls are the official winners of Jack Rocks Sweden 2009. They made it through three rounds of tough voting by a panel of respected judges to make it to the finals held in Stockholm last night. Four bands battled it out onstage in front of a select audience, but in the end it was Crescendolls who clinched it. Inside sources tell us that it was a close run thing between Crescendolls and Oholics, both bands currently distributing their music with Record Union. For you Swedish speakers, you can read more about Crescendolls and the Jack Rocks competition here.

Record Union would like to congratulate Crescendolls on this impressive feat, and wish them the best of success in their bright future.

Great news! Oholics and Cresendolls have been selected to perform at the Jack Rock´s final in Stockholm in 3 weeks time. Jack Rocks is an unsigned competition where the bands pit themselves against the scrutiny of a panel of heavy duty judges. From the hundreds of bands who entered the competition, the panel select 30 to go through to the next stage, then 8 go to the semifinals and play live in 2 seperate events. The 4 who impress the judges the most are invited to perform at the finals, to be held in Stockholm at Skyddsrummet on the 26th November. Both Oholics and Crescendolls will be taking the stage and Record Union will be there to support them in full force.

The winner of this years competition will get the chance to record a 3 track EP at Aldeheim studios, play 2 major festivals (Sweden Rock festival and another as yet to be announced), recieve a gift voucher at JAM worth 30,000 SEK and be provided with a selection of merchandise as well as 100 proffesionally designed and printed CDs.

Hans Selander a.k.a “Hasse”, the Record Union A&R who is responsible for recruiting both bands, is ecstatic and confident both Oholics (who have a reputation for their raucous live performances) and Crescendolls will give the judges something they will never forget. Its going to be wild.

Listen to:

Cresendolls on Spotify

Oholics on Myspace