It’s official! Oscar + Martin’s show with Parking Lot Experiments and Milk Teddy at The East on Wednesday 29thFebruary will be the last EVER show at The East Brunswick Club.
Pete and Pam, the venues owners, have thoroughly enjoyed their time with The East, but after many years in the industry, have decided it’s time to kick up their heels and retire. Unfortunately, the new owners will not be continuing the band room.
During it’s time, The East has been host to such great Australian acts from a wide variety of genres, including The Drones, The Mess Hall, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Lisa Mitchell, Cloud Control (all previous Australian Music Prize recipients), Laughing Clowns, C.W. Stoneking, Regurgitator, My Disco, Big Scary , The Hard-Ons, Airbourne, Angus and Julia Stone, Boy & Bear, Urthboy, The Temper Trap, Jet and Seekae.
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Entries for Australia’s only Truly Independent music awards, Musicoz 2012, are now open. Celebrating the best independent music from across the country, the Musicoz Awards are now in their 11th year with 2012 looking to be the best show yet.
The independent music scene in Australia is a thriving and ever-growing part of the wider music community with over 24,000 artists playing more than 95,000 shows a year and recording in excess of 115,000 songs. The Musicoz-Truly Independent Awards highlights the enormous amount of talent and diversity within the Australian music scene.
“Musicoz was a critical factor for Blue Juice”, says Jake (Blue Juice) who are just one of a long list of Musicoz Award winners who have enjoyed the exposure, credibility and developmental help that only the Musicoz Awards continue to deliver.
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LARGEST EVER ARTIST GROUP TO EMBARK ON MENTORING JOURNEY
Fourteen Victorian artists are amongst the largest ever intake into an Australian artist mentoring program, announced by Youth Arts Queensland today.
A total of seventy-five young and emerging artists nationally have made their artistic match, and will work with respected arts professionals as part of the 2012 JUMP National Mentoring Program.
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Monday 26th December
BOXING DAY
THE TROUTSTALKERS
THE IVORY ELEPHANT
THE HIGH SUBURBAN
Trying to work out the best way to recover from the insanity that is Christmas? What better way than to dance off the pudding with some of Melbourne’s best rock/blues/indie bands?!
Head down to Pony, everyone’s favourite late night haunt, to catch THE IVORY ELEPHANT, THE TROUTSTALKERS and THE HIGH SUBURBAN and any other ‘The’ that you can think of (no other ‘The’s” will be present). With heavy blues riffs, groove beyond comprehension and toe tapping indie pop, this Boxing Day will be one to remember.
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Thursday 29 December
MILFORD ACADEMY
SUPER MAGIC HATS
THE QUIET CONTENDER
Thursday 29th December sees the return of Melbourne’s own answer to late 90’s indie/twinkly emo Milford Academy. Playing the hallowed halls of Collingwood’s Yah Yah’s for the second time this year this is the perfect opportunity to rid yourself of the post xmas glassy food haze. Joining them will be Super Magic Hats and The Quiet Contender coming off the back off a quite a prolific year for both bands.
DOORS 9PM
Friday 30 December
SEEDY JEEZUS
KILLING LIARS
ACETONE
Playing Yahs Yah’s on Friday the 30th Dec is local psychedelic rock band Seedy Jeezus. This 3 piece are already making some circles and are tipped to explode in 2012. Look up Seedy Jeezus on youtube to get a glimpse of their mix of the best mix of heavy psychedelia and a rough shot of zeppelinesque grunge rock.
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22nd—24th February, 2012
Are you ready for FUSE Festival 2012?
The longest running festival of its type in Australia, FUSE will be hosted on 22-24 February 2012 in Adelaide. Now in its 16th year, FUSE has grown into a truly national event and the presence of key music industry figures and musicians from around the globe mark it as a must‐attend event for anyone serious about a career in the music industry.
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The Living End’s Chris Cheney joins a sensational list of guest performers when legendary
Australian band the Hoodoo Gurus headline the annual EG Awards on Wednesday November 23,
and are inducted into the EG Hall of Fame.
One of this country’s finest guitarists, Cheney said it was a huge thrill to be coming back to the awards
night at the Prince Bandroom — after the Living End headlined the event in 2007 — to celebrate one
of Australia’s most-loved bands.
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