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This article was published 22/10/2010 (5810 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A local pop-rock band needs your votes to win a spot on a MuchMusic reality program.
Take Me To The Pilot is one of six bands from across the country trying to secure enough on-line votes to get them onto Much’s new show, Discovered, which promises to offer the winning band a national audience and a lot more.
“If we win this vote, then we get on an episode of the show,” Mike Bilenki, founder of TMTTP, who plays guitar and sings and writes the songs, said of Much’s Envy Pick contest.
“You travel to T.O., get hooked up with a quote-unquote industry guru… It’s definitely a legitimate forum to get your music out there, which is why we’re working so hard to get our votes in.”
Bilenki is only 20 but he’s been playing in bands since he was 14. He formed TMTTP back in February of 2009 as a solo act. The name came from an Elton John song.
“I’m a huge Elton John fan. It was so random, it was just one day, we were goofing around and out came the words Take Me To The Pilot. I liked the way it sounded and it just sort of stuck and the rest is history.”
The band as a four-piece unit — with Adam Brown on bass, Richard Eliuk on drums, Eric Grabowecky on guitar and vocals — has been together since May of this year and they released a self-titled, five-song EP in June and toured southern Ontario in September.
“We played our first show (locally) at Skate 4 Cancer on May 29, so we’re still pretty fresh,” Bilenki said. “We’ve already toured and stuff. I’d like to think that we’re tighter than you might expect from a band whose been together for such a short amount of time.”
But the band is already going through some changes. Drummer Eliuk has decided to return to school and they’re in the process of picking his replacement.
Bilenki describes TMTTP’s sound as a cross between pop/punk rock and pure pop. His writing was influenced by the songs of such non-mainstream bands like Making April, My Favorite Highway and The Dangerous Summer as well as bands from another generation — Elton John, Queen, U2 and Van Halen.
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Show remains a work in progress
Mike Bilenki and his bandmates with Take Me To The Pilot are busy honing their sound but a lot of work remains to be done with the MuchMusic's Discovered, which even their own publicists say remains a work in progress.
Much spokeswoman Amy Doary said Discovered replaces disBAND, which aired for two seasons but the format of Discovered is being re-worked.
Doary said Discovered was originally planned to air in November but that's been pushed back to allow the show's production team to rework the concept of the program.
"They're looking at changing some of the elements of the show," Doary said. "They don't know what elements those will be, that's why we don't have much on what the end format will be."
Doary said that even though there is so much about the show that is unknown, including the number of bands, she is certain that one of the six bands in the contest will eventually appear in the show.
"When every one's in pre-production, some things aren't decided. Originally, during the summer, we thought the show would air in the fall, so Novemberish, but it's since been pushed, which is something that's just been really recent.
"So now, they have obviously more time to film and story produce and pick more bands and of course, this contest as well, which will be a part of the series."
