Youngsters rocked out at the annual Battle of the Bands with Sydenham and Crystal Palace students victorious.

Pupils from Sydenham School, in Dartmouth Road, raised the roof as nine bands fought for their place at the top.

The overall winner was a band called Kenopsia, made up of 15-year-olds Hannah Riley and Ciara Clarke, both from Sydenham, and Orla Mantle from Crystal Palace.

Kenopsia singer and bass player Hannah said: "We have been together for just over a year and practice several times a week.

"It will be good being defending champions next year."

The trio won £100 in music vouchers and a box of chocolates with their version of Two Door Cinema Club’s ‘What You Know’.

With the competition in its fifth year music teacher Nathan Thomas said: "The younger girls do seem to change the names of their bands an awful lot which makes creating the programme for BotB very complicated and also makes it feel as if there are 150 bands taking part at times.

"It’s just one of the hazards of the job!"

While judging took place the crowd was wowed with a performance from the staff band, ‘The Educators’, who played Bryan Adams ‘Summer of 69’.

In second place came ‘Destiny And The Band Members’, and in third place was ‘Fire Angels’ at the event held just before Easter.