Saturday June 12th....Venue: The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh. Dionyssus had the fortunate position of being the headlining act, but despite running a bus from Dingwall/Inverness and selling 130+ tickets, Dionyssus were told just before going onstage that 2 other bands had sold more tickets than themselves. With this said, the Inverness Rock Gods pledged to just enjoy themselves and put on a good show all the same.

A good show being an understatement, they kicked off their set with new EP track, Freestyle, to their sea of 'dionyssus t-shirt bearing' fans. Rory Hutcheson decided to abandon the legendary dress code that the band follow - all black shirts- and won the compere's award for best topless male 2004 - the ladies didn't seem too offended either.The crowd enjoyed a ripping set which included Robin and Rory running frantically all over the stage, George throwing his equipment about and playing his keyboard behind his back and the ever-exciting Greg crowd - surfing during the finale number of 'Kings of the Jungle'. With the audience sky-high in estactic frenzy, the compere took a while to quieten them down and count the votes- a difficult task when almost the whole venue are chanting "WIN WIN WIN WIN...."  and given the amount of people that there were to count.

When the announcement of the results came, Dionyssus were just delighted that they had probably played their best gig to date and did not expect to get a place, even as runners up. They were right to assume that they would not be runners up, but were truly grateful to be proved wrong at the prospect of winning the contest. Seconds after the compere announced that Dionyssus had won and were to go through to the Scottish final at the Carling Academy, Glasgow, the five of them raced onstage to a deafening applause from the crowd who also waited for the band to come out the back door to cheer them on half way down Edinburgh's Grassmarket. Given that the band were nearly refused entry to the contest and have now beaten nearly 30 Edinburgh-based contenders, Dionyssus were thoroughly delighted with the outcome and now look forward to performing to a panel of record scouts from a selction of companies including the contest endorsers, Sony/Columbia.

Please look out for details of their gig at the Carling Academy, as Dionyssus will be running another bus for anyone who would like to support them there also. Dionyssus are also pleased to announce that their new EP 'Ram It!' is on its way to you very shortly.

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