The Sydney Youth Music team are hosting their third gig, this time supporting Sydney’s hip hop scene and Youth Week in the City. The event will be held at Goodgod Small Club between 11-4.30pm on April 11, and headlined by breakdancer, rapper and writer Bam Bam, who’s mixtapes have already received 30,000+ downloads. Supports include Sydney-based
QANTAS announces changes to carriage of musical instrument policy
QANTAS has announced changes to their existing musical instrument policy, through a dedicated Musicians Additional Baggage Allowance which sets out to assist artists when travelling with a musical instrument or touring equipment. The offer includes a free baggage allowance of three pieces (at 23kgs per piece) for artists. This baggage allowance is available on Qantas and QantasLink domestic
AMIN AND TRAVEL BEYOND GROUP ANNOUNCE TRAVEL DEAL FOR MUSICIANS
Australian musicians are set to save thousands of dollars a year in touring costs after a new preferred supplier deal negotiated between the Australian Music Industry Network and Travel Beyond Group. In an Australian first, Travel Beyond Group has designed a dedicated travel portal available to members of AMIN’s associated state and territory bodies which offers discounted Virgin
Internship with Junkee now available
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BIGSOUND 2015 Registrations & Live Showcase Applications Now Open
BIGSOUND registrations and BIGSOUND Live showcase applications open up this Thursday for this year’s conference, which will happen between 9-11 September in Brisbane.
Want to see our all ages regional Indent Tour in your town? Submit an expression of interest today!
Indent, the crew behind the annual Indent Tour, are inviting young event teams across NSW to submit expressions of interest to host the Indent Tour in 2015! Indent’s annual regional drug and alcohol free all-ages tour is the only tour of it’s kind in Australia.
PPCA & Australia Council Recording Grant Recipients Announced
The PPCA and the Australia Council have announced the recipients of five recording grants offered under a joint initiative between the two organisations. Five grants of $15,000 were offered to assist Australian artists creating new sound recordings. Minister for the Arts, Senator Brandis welcomed this valuable partnership to support musicians. “The Australian Government strongly supports partnerships such as
IAM: Indigenous Arts Mentorship Recipients Announced
Congratulations to the ten young Indigenous creatives that have been selected to take part in the IAM: Indigenous Arts Mentorship, which matches the emerging creatives, aged between 16 and 25, with arts industry professionals. This group of young creatives demonstrated strong passion and determination to pursue a career in their artform, which varies across music,
Youth Rock applications closing soon!
Applications for Youth Rock are closing on March 20! Youth Rock is a state-wide talent search band competition held during Youth Week in Sutherland, with past winners including Silverchair, Alex Lloyd and 2009 Australian Idol runner up Hayley Warner.
Cheviot
Cheviot is the musical brainchild of friendly neighbours Matt and Sam. After years of collaboration in make-shift music spaces around their homes, they’ve decided it’s time to finally out themselves as a serious musical act, producing a wide-gamut of fresh sounds from alt. rock to synth pop. Cheviot also happens to be the name of