Two NYU students recently took home top honors at mtvU’s Woodie Awards.
Their band, The Bride Wore Black, won the Best Music on Campus award, a category that recognizes the best unsigned college band in the country that will most likely have a breakout year.
The group features Stern senior Mike Antonucci and CAS senior Sean Walsh.
Antonucci said he was happy when the band was first nominated from mtvU, but he did not think they would win.
“I was happy to have been nominated and surprised that mtvU selected us out of the thousands of bands on Bestmusiconcampus.com, but I never thought we would make it all the way to the end,” he said.
But as the evening went on, Antonucci became more aware that they just might take home the Woodie.
“It was phenomenal. Once we made it to the top five, the reality sunk in that we could possibly win,” he said. “It was the greatest moment of our music careers so far. It means the world to us that fans took time out of their lives to vote for our band.”
In 2006, Walsh and Antonucci teamed up with two Five Towns College students, Sam Fruner and Devin Passariello, to form the pop-punk group.
For the band’s name, Antonucci credited Fruner’s reading list.
“Sean came up with the name The Bride Wore Black from a poem he read,” Antonucci said. “Sean had the name in mind for a while, and the rest of us really liked it because it was catchy and unique.”
The band first performed at The Knitting Factory in New York City, and the members said they were lucky to have been given the chance to open for The Pink Spiders.
The Bride Wore Black went on to release an EP called “¡PWNED!” in summer 2007. “¡PWNED!” features seven original songs including the hits “Pray to the Porcelain God,” “Dance Party Ultimate Remix” and “Tonight I’ll Look to Celestial.”
Now, they plan to use the $5,000 prize from the Woodie Award to record a new EP.
“Winning the Woodie Award is a giant step in achieving the success we have always dreamed of. It is incredible to think that we are the No. 1 unsigned band in colleges nationwide,” Antonucci said.
Maricris Clave is a staff writer. E-mail her at university@nyunews.com.
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NYU’s The Bride Wore Black takes home Woodie Award
Published: Sunday, November 30, 2008
Updated: Sunday, November 30, 2008
2 comments
mom & dad A.
Congratulations Mike, Sean, Sam and Devin on winning The MTV U Woodie for Best Music on Campus. We hope your music careers soar high.
k.t
ahhh!!!i love the bride wore black!
