Virgin Mobile Australia and Century venues have announced the Metro theatre on George Street will become the Virgin Mobile Metro. The sponsorhip deal is said to safeguard the iconic venue’s future and support the contemporary live music artists that perform there.
Last days for Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition
The Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition is open to all songwriters, published and unpublished, professional and amatuer, local and international across al genres. With the prize pool at $50,00 in cash and prizes, this is the biggest national songwriting competition and there are only 2 weeks left.
Groundswell Tour
The inaugural Groundswell tour has announced it’s three headline artists for it’s kick off tour along the eastern seaboard. Groundswell 2009 brings together The Medics from Cairns, Deline Briscoe from Melbourne and New South Wales Radical Son, haling from the central coast. Special guests will be invited, and announced soon to join this triple headline
AMRAP launch AirIT at Big Sound
The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP) launched AirIT today at Big Sound Music Summit in Brisbane. AirIT is a brand new online music catolgue for community radio stations and a spankin’ digital distribution service for record labels You may know AMRAP from distribution services like their monthly mailout to community radio stations that would
Four emerging Indigenous recieve EP recording from Gadigal
Gadigal Music and Gadgial Information Service have announced the 4 recpitients of the 2010 NSW emerging Indigenous music EP series, Krista Pav, Nekrofeist, Josh Trindall and Stunna Set.
Tom Ugly
1. What was the first band you saw live? Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, when I was about ten. Im eighteen now. 2. What’d you learn from them? Because it was my first real live show, I learnt all the basics of what a live shows all about. I still learn heaps from every show
CDR at SOUND SUMMIT
The CDR sessions are about new, unreleased music. Whether you are signed, unsigned, world-famous or, as yet, undiscovered, we play only music that you have made and brought along on the day. CDR is the future sound of underground music – still under construction. CDR will be travelling to Newcastle for Sound Summit, bringing Melbourne
Piracy (pt I): The Cup and the Cube
The Cup and the Cube: a new perspective on the debate over Internet Music Piracy …And the debate keeps raging on. Should music sharing over the internet be a criminal offence, or do we live in a new digital world that is not bound by the same restrictions and limitations of the old physical one?
le Kingste
Answered by Caleb Kingston 1. What was the first band you saw live? Some band who came and played shitty covers at our high school back in ’97. 2. What’d you learn from them? Don’t go to high schools and play shitty covers 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? Jack likes to bring a big bowl
Cloud Control
Photo: www.griffinrocks.com.au Answered by Ulrich Lenffer 1. What was the first band you saw live? Our very own Dappled cities FLY at the Hoey. 2. What’d you learn from them? If you’re happy, the audience is happy. Having fun is equally as important as playing well. 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? FInding the room in