Formation / early years / pre India's Got Talent Underground Authority was formed in early 2010, when two of the previously existing acts from
Kolkata, collaborated to put forth a new act together. They primarily started off performing in the premier pubs of
Kolkata and participated in major music events, including the
Closed Mic / Best of open mic at Someplace Else and
Tuborg Unseen Underground Pub Rock festival. They were also the runners up at a national rock band competition,
Yamaha Asian Beat 2010, held at
Hard Rock Cafe in
Mumbai. {{Blockquote|If not rivalry, then we would surely prefer the term 'fierce competitors' to describe us in the past, when we used to face off and compete as a band at the national / local music circuit. But then again, we always had this dream of coming together as a unit at some point of time and fortunately, it happened on the pleasant evening of April 3, 2010. We figured that all five of us wanted to experiment and come up with something new and unique; so when the idea of Underground Authority came up, we straight away went for it as we all had a gut feeling that it would result in something fresh and inviting. On 17 May 2010 – They had performed at a concert in
Kolkata organised by Power 107.8 FM to help promote mass awareness on the extinction on tigers in the country. On 16 July 2010 – They had also been a part of a special night organised by popular city bands and individuals to offer a tribute to the
Indian film music directors at the pub, 'Basement' at 'Samilton Hotel' in
Kolkata. They performed
A. R. Rahman directed songs, 'Rukmini' and '
Humma Humma' in their own versions as a tribute to the former.
!Banned They were mostly active from time period January 2009– March 2010 and had won many rock band competitions held at the cultural festivals of colleges. Some of the notable are named below, • 'Outlawed/Rivet 2010' – NUJS (
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences), Annual cultural festival – Battle of bands winners. • 'Srijan 2010' –
Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, Cultural Festival – 'Avalanche 2010' (Band competition) winners. • 'Rockophonix 2010' –
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Annual Cultural Festival – Battle of bands winners. • 'Irock 2010'-
Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, Annual Cultural Festival – Band competition winners. • 'Integration 2010' ISI (
Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata), Cultural-tech Festival – Band competition winners. • 'Sanskriti 2010' –
Jadavpur university, Cultural Festival organised by the students of the Engineering Department- Band competition Winners. • 'Spunkz' 2010 – Pailan College of Management and Technology, Annual Cultural Festival – Band competition winners. • 'Sanskriti 2010' –
Jadavpur university, Cultural Festival organised by the students of the Arts Department – Band Competition winners. • 'Cacophony 2010' –
Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management, Annual Cultural Festival – Battle of Bands winners. • 'Springfest 2010' – IIT KGP (
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), Annual Cultural Festival – 'Wildfire' battle of bands runners up. • 'AGON 2009' –
Calcutta National Medical College, Annual Cultural Festival – Battle of bands winners. • 'MITALI 2009' –
Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital, Annual Cultural Festival – Battle of bands winners. • Calcutta Medical College (
Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata) – Battle of bands, Winners, 2009. • 'Eclecia 2009' –
Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, Annual Cultural Festival – 'On the rocks' band competition, third-place winners. On 23 January 2010,
Kolkata, they had opened for
Krishnakumar Kunnath, a famous
Bollywood playback singer and were also awarded by him on stage, as the band had won the 'Times of Youth Challenge 2010' rock band competition organised by the
Times of India and the
Times group. The band discontinued in April 2010, as the bass guitarist, Roheet Mukherjee left the band to join another city band
Five Little Indians.
Skydive Skydive started as a
rap-rock side project that included Santhanam Srinivasan Iyer on the vocals/
rap, Adil Rashid on the lead guitar, Soumyadeep Bhattacharya on the bass guitar, Bhaveen Juthani on the rhythm guitar and Sourish Kumar on the drums. Though the activity of the band didn't span for more than three months, January to March 2010, the band had an unbeatable record of winning all the band competitions it had taken part in at cultural festivals of colleges. The following are the competitions they took part in, • 'Oorja 2010' –
Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, Cultural festival – Battle of bands winners. • 'Kritansh 2010' –
KIIT University, Annual cultural festival, 'Holocaust 2010' – Band competition winners. • 'Almafiesta 2010' –
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Annual cultural festival, 'Euphony 2010' – Band competition winners. • 'Srijan 2010' –
Shri Shikshayatan College, Annual cultural festival – Battle of bands winners. On 28 January 2010 they took part and had won the band competition event at 'Caledonia 2010' – the annual cultural fest of
Scottish Church College, Calcutta. Their original composition
Private investigation of a microphone in Jerusalem was an instant hit among the audience and the judge, Radio Jockey Vineet of
Red FM 93.5. ==Band members==