Wellington Batucada need a favour

Wellington Batucada (the drummers that used to play at Nix games) are in a people's choice competition to play at the WOMAD festival next March. They need lots of votes and for people to share the link below.

Whether you loved them, hated them or were indifferent to them at games they were a big part of the early days of the Nix so it would be good to help them out now. It would be much appreciated if YF could help out.

All you have to do is click on the link below, scroll down to enter an email address (confidential) and then  confirm your vote in a verification email WOMAD will send.

http://www.womad.co.nz/bandcompetition/134/106/Wel...

The voting closes Monday and its really tight. Help a Wellington group get a win! Just a couple of clicks.

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Awesome guys - every bit helps! 

Batucada are up against it with some strange voting driving the main competition up fast. Strange stuff that is hard to explain.  A bit like what we get at some of the nix games. Mind you if we can't find a way to make chances and score goals l we can't blame anyone else really. Just waiting for Brockie and Krishna to start firing - one of them will. I have faith!

Hey Yakcall - I never get tired of that Rivaldo clip :-) 

Hi Guys

Plenty of people have viewed this call and it would be great if some of you could drop back in for just a minute and donate a vote. Hell if you all did then you'd turn things around. Things are getting desperate

Just click, scroll down and then verify - its easy as and in a good cause

http://www.womad.co.nz/bandcompetition/134/106/Wel...

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Thanks for the support guys - anything more would be welcome. 

Lets just say the voting patterns are 'ïnteresting'.

You mean it is like Homai Te Paki Paki where you are "limited" to 5 votes per cell phone. 

Thanks for the time and the votes guys. The voting competition for the awesome WOMAD festival has closed now so its all over. The result comes out on Thursday sometime. No more messages for votes from me - I'll be just sticking to the football again. What a great time last Sunday! Shirts off at a decent temperature for a change :-)

But before I do I should say that WOMAD is a brilliant festival that is well worth a weekend if you're into good music and discovering new music - there are always acts you've never heard of that end up blowing you away. And such a fantastic venue at the Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth. Check it out

http://www.womad.co.nz/

So was it X Factor voting(Already decided before voting)? Or Maorioki voting (limited to 5 texts per phone)?

Nah it was a straight out 1 vote per each email address. Basically it came down to how much motivation to vote could be generated among each groups supporters, audiences or other friends. 

As well as doing heaps of busking to collect votes over the last couple of months Batucada also got some pretty big Facebook endorsements in the last couple of days from some people with big influence such as Fat Freddies Drop, the Newtown Festival, the Relay for Life, and Batucada Sound Machine (in Auckland). Plus many other music groups backed Batucada as well. Pretty much a mix of contacts, friends and audience-generated votes from gigs and busking. A pretty big effort.