Perth Music

Calling all bands and solo artists – Last chance to register – hit up www.uncharted.com.au

Are you in a band? Are you a solo artist? Fancy playing at a major festival? Want a foot through the music industry door? We’re searching for Australia’s next big thing!

Get online now and register for the first Tooheys Extra Dry uncharTED Comp of 2009. Registration is in its last week so get in quick and enter your details on www.uncharTED.com.au . This competition is an amazing starting platform for any emerging band or artist. Previously, uncharTED only accepted bands to the competition, this year we welcome and encourage solo artists to show us what they’re made of.

The winners will get the chance to play at Splendour In The Grass 2009 and receive a band development package worth $25,000. Previous uncharTED winners Kate Bradley & The Goodbye Horses won a spot on the Big Day Out 2009 tour. As lead singer Kate describes her win as “Awesome and surreal.”

You could be Australia’s next big thing! Registrations close 13 March – this Friday, so get in quick.

Bacardi have just announced the upcoming release of the eagerly awaited EP from this year’s Bacardi Express headliners Groove Armada. The EP is available to adult music fans via the B-LIVE Share application that can be found at www.bacardi.com. Remixes of one of the EP tracks, ‘Drop The Tough’, came courtesy of Australian Electronica duo Van She Tech and Brazilian dance duo The Twelve’s.

The EP will be delivered through an innovative online sharing mechanic called Bacardi B-LIVE Share. Bacardi B-LIVE Share is a pioneering online application encouraging and rewarding consumers who share music from Groove Armada’s new EP with their own online communities.  Sharing can take place through the site and widgets that can be integrated into social networking environments. The more consumers share, the more tracks from the EP are released to them. Additionally, Australian users have the chance to win a VIP experience with Groove Armada onboard the Bacardi Express this March – see www.bacardi.com for details.

B-LIVE Share is a pioneering application, as it empowers sharing as the future model for music content distribution. Sharing music via this method is legal because the rights owners — the artists, Bacardi B-LIVE Records and the publisher — are all compensated for the downloads and shared files.

The EP release highlights an eight month first-of-its-kind collaboration between the premium spirit brand Bacardi and the music group. In April 2008, Bacardi announced a ground-breaking global music agreement with Groove Armada. Groove Armada side-stepped music industry tradition and worked with Bacardi in touring, recording, and producing Bacardi B-LIVE — the global experiential marketing programme, which reaches its climax in March this year when they jump onboard Australia’s Bacardi Express.

The online sharing application is available now through to March 1st, when the EP will be available via commercial digital release.

RTRFM 92.1 continues to turn Perth radio on its head with Radiothon 2008: Turn it up!

It’s that time of year when RTRFM 92.1 asks for your support to promote the upcoming festivities and raise the support and funds the station needs to supply the sound alternative to Perth’s airwaves.

Radiothon will kick off on Friday 29 August with a launch from Planet Books on Beaufort St during an outside broadcast of the Breakfast with Barr program featuring all the regulars plus some very special musical guests.

For one action-packed week RTRFM asks it’s listeners to express their love for the station by taking out an annual subscription (prices listed below).  Everyone who subscribes during Radiothon will go into the draw to win some massive major prizes!  With over $150,000 worth of prizes to be won and an average of 2,500 subscribers during Radiothon, you’re looking at some pretty good odds of being a big winner!  But more importantly, the station relies on your subscriptions during Radiothon to ensure it can continue to operate.

Subscribe to RTRFM 92.1 during Radiothon 2008 for your chance to win a massive HiFi system and CD pack from Simply Hi-fi and Universal Music, Honda scooter from West Coast Honda, private film screening for you and your friends from Luna Palace Cinemas, Stanton DJ Set-ups and bass guitar and amp packages from Kosmic Music, PA Package from Theo’s Music, recording time from Poons Head, music gear from Billy Hyde, books, clothes, free meals all around town, mountains of CDs, a year’s free broadband from Westnet, Perth Festival tickets and Lotterywest Festival Films season pass, audio gear, skydives, helicopter rides and lots more!

Listeners can subscribe by calling the Radiothon hotline, (08) 9260 9210, logging on to www.rtrfm.com.au or sending a cheque or money order to PO Box 842, Mt Lawley, WA 6929.

On Sunday 27th July 2008, the world’s biggest live music event is coming to Perth!

The Global Battle of the Bands (GBOB) Challenge 2008 is hitting up every nook and cranny of Australasia to unearth the best band in the territory, so they can be flown to the UK to battle it out for the 1st prize of US$100,000. And GBOB is heading to Perth to dig up the very best in Western Australian talent.

The tyranny of distance will for the first time work in the favour of Western Australians. The reason being that the Perth Heat has been rated as not only a local qualifier, but also a Regional Final. Thus, the winner of the Perth Heat will not have to attend a secondary play-off to qualify for the Australasian National Final – they will go straight through to the National Final, held at the Hilton’s State Room in Sydney.

To add to this amazing opportunity, each member of the winning band will be showered with prizes, including a pair of the coveted Chuck Taylor Converse Shoes (a must in any musician’s wardrobe), a bag of goodies from Ernie Ball and a Fuji Z20 Digital Camera.

All Regional Final winners will be included in press releases to GBOB’s network of major music industry players and sponsors, which include Channel [V] and Triple M. Channel V will be broadcasting footage of the bands at the Australasian Final as well as following them to the World Final in London, and the winner of the Australasian Final will be featured across the Triple M network.

So bands, pay attention – US$100,000 and international fame could be yours. Don’t miss out on your chance to be the winner of the GBOB Challenge 2008. Just head to www.gbob.com, follow the Australia links and you’re on your way!

Register your band NOW for your chance to win the biggest band competition the world has ever seen.

A great site that Triple J fans will love is www.hottest100tunes.com. It has complete lists of the annual Hottest 100 songs voted by Triple J listeners from 1989 all the way to 2007. There are also links to ringtones of every song as well as links to iTunes where you can pay and download MP3’s of every song.

Check it out.

The South Street Ale House in Hilton is introducing the Indie-nation DJ night to help kick-start your weekend in style. Every Thursday from the 24th of April RTRFM DJs will be at the Ale House playing classic rock, indie hits and pop tunes with some great surprises thrown in for good measure.

If you’re into The Shins, Pixies, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth or The Clash, then the South Street Ale House is your new hang out every Thursday night. They also serve up a great feed and they have a wide range of refreshing drinks and beers on tap to complete the picture. Great tunes, scrumptious food and a tasty beverage, what more could you want?

So throw down the remote control and take complete control of your Thursday night at the South Street Ale House’s Indie-nation.

What - Indie DJs playing a mix of classic rock, indie and edgy pop
Where - South Street Ale House, 277 South Street, Hilton
When - Launch night - Thursday, 24th April, Doors open at 8pm
Price - Free Entry

Keir Tunbridge interviewed me to talk about the state of the Perth Music scene as well as Steve Ashfield, manager of Mojo’s. The show was on last Friday afternoon but if you missed it you can still have a listen to the story HERE (5:00 - 1.7Mb)

A big thanks to Keir and RTR-FM for taking the time.  For more info on RTR-FM visit www.rtrfm.com.au

The Gala Premiere of the Perth Music documentary - Something In The Water turned out to be a smashing success!  Check out the photos here.

But there is another chance to see the film that saw the Astor Theatre bursting at the seams with WA music fans and bands.
A limited season plus another opening shindig on Thursday, 14th February (Valentine’s Day) has been organized for all you unlucky people who missed out. You’ve got six short days until next Wednesday the 20th of Feb to catch it.

Luna Outdoor, Leederville
February 14-20
8:15PM Every Night
Doors Open 7PM

Special Valentines Day Opening February 14th
Performance by
Sean & Miranda Pollard (New Rules For Boats)
Q&A from director Aidan O’Bryan
Food & Drinks

February 15th in conjunction with the WAMi Festival
Performance by
New Rules For Boats
Food & Drinks

Tickets available at the Luna, Leederville box office and check out the Something In The Water website for more info

Congratulations to Muse for getting number one in this years Hottest 100 with Knights Of Cydonia. The top 10 is listed below:
1. - Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
2. - Silverchair - Straight Lines
3. - Kings Of Leon - On Call
4. - John Butler Trio - Better Than
5. - Faker - This Heart Attack
6. - Foo Fighters - The Pretender
7. - Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Live)
8. - Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry
9. - Soko - I’ll Kill Her
10. - The Panics - Don’t Fight It

Also congratulations to all of the WA artists that made it to the list this year including:
The Waifs - 92. Sun, Dirt, Water
Karnivool - 63. The Only Way
Birds Of Tokyo - 61. Wayside
John Butler Trio - 55. Good Excuse, 22. Used To Get High and 4. Better Than
Gyroscope - 16. Snakeskin
and The Panics - 10. Don’t Fight It

The WA Folk Federation and some of Western Australia’s best folk, blues and country musicians come together for Mount Lawley Folk and Blues to create music on a Sunday afternoon in the heart of Mount Lawley on Sunday 10th February from 2:30pm to 6:30pm at the Velvet Lounge and Flying Scotsman.

Artists playing include Isabel Quigley, Djangle, Grant Hart and Keith Anthonisz and 3 Wise Monkeys.

For more info visit the WA Folk Federation website - www.wafolk.org.au