View source for Teignmouth Broadmeadow Sports Centre 1994 (gig)

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{{Gigbox
| Venue = Broadmeadow Sports Centre
| EventName = Battle of the Bands
| EventNameRef = <ref name="nme20070616">{{cite/nme20070616}}</ref>
| Date = February 1994
| DateRef = <ref name="nme20070616"/>
| Location = Teignmouth
| Country = United Kingdom
| Zone = UTC
| Curr = GBP
}}

This was the band's first gig and their only one as Rocket Baby Dolls.<ref name="rc199912">{{cite/recordcollector199912}}</ref><ref name="nme20070616"/> This was a battle of the bands contest.<ref name="nme20070616"/>. [[Matthew Bellamy]] didn't think that they were going to win the competition, though they did.<ref name="id">{{cite/intdisc2001}}</ref> He thought this was due to a combination of them being the only band unable to play music properly,<ref name="id"/> the competition not being taken seriously, as well as the band taking the "piss" out of it.<ref name="k2005">{{cite/kerrang2005}}</ref> Additionally, he attributed it to their passion of their performance—earlier, he said that winning despite their inferior music playing skill made them start believing what people look for in music is not necessarily technical, but emotional.<ref name="rc199912"/>

At the time, the band liaised with a group of girls, who co-wrote the original music the band played.<ref name="id"/> Before the gig, these girls dressed the band's members up as well as applying makeup on them.<ref name="id"/> Additionally, the band's members organised their friends to come in during the performance to invade the stage.<ref name="k2005"/> At the end of their performance, Bellamy started smashing the equipment they were using, which didn't belong to any of the band's members.<ref name="k2005"/> As a result, a security guard pulled him off stage, only for him to escape the guard's grasp and continue.

Along with a cover of [[Nirvana]]'s "tourette's", the band played various grunge songs composed for the competition.  Matthew Bellamy later described their look as like The Cure but their sound as like Rush.<ref name="k2005"/> Dominic Howard later said that, as a result of this experience, they came to think writing their own music was enjoyable and so they started working harder with their own music.<ref name="k2005"/>

When the band was announced the winner of the competition, members of the audience booed and shouted "fix", which Bellamy later thought was due to the Rocket Baby Dolls being the only band that couldn't play music properly.<ref name="id"/>

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| 01 = Tourette's 
| 02 = Small Minded 
| 03 = Yellow Regret 
| 04 = A Turn to Stone 
| 05 = Weakening Walls 
| 06 = Pointless Loss 
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== References ==
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== See also==
* [[Teignmouth Broadmeadow Sports Centre | Broadmeadow Sports Centre, Teignmouth]]

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