The Scoop - June 2003
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2003 APRA WINNERS
However,
the other nominees didn't walk away empty handed. Daniel Johns of
Silverchair picked up the Songwriter of the Year award for the second
time while Craig Nicholls of The Vines won the Breakthrough Songwriter
award. The Ted Albert Award For Outstanding Service To Australian
Music went to legendary AC/DC brothers Angus and Malcolm Young and
the late Bon Scott. The award for Most Performed Dance Work went
to Disco Montego & Katie Underwood for their hit "Beautiful"
while the award for Most Performed Jazz Work' went to James Muller
for his composition "Paul Bley". For the 2nd consecutive
year, Savage Garden received the award for the Most Performed Australian
Work Overseas for their worldwide smash "I Knew I Loved You"
and the Most Performed Foreign Work went to Five For Fighting for
the song "Superman" (It's Not Easy). FREE MUSIC SEMINARS ANNOUNCED If you're a musician, songwriter, manager, indie label, or involved in the music industry in some way, you may be interested to know that a series of free seminars "Almost Famous - Music Media & Marketing Voodoo" will be taking place around Australia this month. Featuring top international trade publication and consumer music journalists, these sessions are designed to maximise opportunities for using media here and overseas to increase visibility of bands and businesses to take advantage of Australia's musical desirability in export strategies. Conceived by music industry publicist Phil Tripp of IMMEDIA! (who publishes the AustralAsian Music Industry Directory), he'll be joined in Melbourne by Billboard Magazine's Bureau Chief Christie Eliezer while in Sydney he'll be joined by Keith Welsh (General Manager of The Music Network & Associate Publisher of Canadian Music Net). They will be joined in each city by top local music consumer press writers or editors who will reveal tips and techniques to build crucial local & interstate presences for artists and music businesses keen to hone their PR skills. Each session will be moderated by Tripp and will be a free-form two hour discussion with an added one hour for audience questions. The seminars will take place at the Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne on June 5, The Enmore Theatre in Sydney on June 12, and at the Enigma Bar in Adelaide on June 17. For those interested in attending, the seminars will begin at 6pm although it is recommended that you arrive by 5:30 to guarantee a seat. Be there… [V] EXCLUSIVES Channel [V]
have announced that they will be screening the worldwide premiere
of "Silverchair Live Across The Night" on Sunday June
8th at 7pm EST. The special, which was filmed over two nights at
Newcastle's Civic Theatre on the final leg of Silverchair's sold
out "Across The Night" tour over Easter, will be a 60-minute
special featuring exclusive concert vision and interviews In another Channel [V] exclusive, mark down June 9th in your diaries because that is the day that dynamic singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne will be making a one off free live performance for the station. In her first ever Australian tour, Lavigne will perform 3 acoustic tracks on a special edition of 'whatuwant' and will be joined by pop punksters Gob who will also perform and have a chat with the [V] crew. The show can be viewed via Foxtel, Austar and Optus. If you don't have cable TV, you can catch all of the action live at [V] HQ, Bent Street, Fox Studios Sydney between 1-4pm EST. A GENERAL TOUR 2003 Aussie rockers 28 Days certainly like to work hard! After their recent tour with Grinspoon, the boys will be at it again this month when they tour the east coast of Australia. Joining them will be After The Fall and four piece Gyroscope whose debut EP 'Midnight Express' was recently unleashed. You can catch all of the action on the following dates:
FMR NEWS Festival-Mushroom Records have announced that they will be replacing their existing in-house creative marketing team with an external specialist creative agency, dare Concepts. dare will offer FMR artists a 25-person marketing team working in advertising, interactive, PR, events, and design and will explore and embrace strategic cross-promotional activities with other major brands. Its current client roster covers all spectrums of popular culture from sport, arts, travel, fashion and more. The first creative collaboration for Festival Mushroom Records and dare will be the debut album release for Amiel, titled Audio Out', due for release in July. Her Top 10 hit "Lovesong" has reached Gold status in Australia.
COUPE SCOOP Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a big rock concert? Well Stuart Coupe, the man who's done it all (ie, been a journalist, publicist, international tour promoter, band manager, researcher, author and independent record label director) has the answer in his new book titled "The Promoters". It provides an inside look into the world of some of this country's biggest promoters including Michael Gudinski, Paul Dainty, Michael Chugg, Kevin Jacobsen and Michael Coppel. It looks at every aspect of the touring business from the deal making and organisation, the major wins/losses incurred, and some of the outrageous demands of international superstars. Recommended to anyone with an interest in promoting or a general interest in the Australian rock industry. Danny Canak |
Kasey
Cambers, Silverchair, Grinspoon and The Waifs battled it out for
the prestigious Song of the Year award at the 2003 APRA Music Awards
which were held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney on May 19. Our
congratulations go to Kasey Chambers who walked away with the award
for her song about the frustration of not getting radio airplay
"Not Pretty Enough" ironically taking the crown. She also
walked away with the Most Performed Australian Work and Most Performed
Country Work and officially becomes the recipient of the most APRA
music awards received by any Australian female artist.
Long
considered to be one of the annual highlights of the Australian
music industry¹s events calendar, the APRA Music Awards honours
composers and songwriters who have achieved excellence in their
craft in the previous year. Congratulations to all of the winners.
with
fans and the band themselves. In what has been a remarkable year
for the trio which has included another # 1 album with Diorama,
picking up six awards at the 2002 ARIAs, and a highly successful
Australian tour this year, this special should not be missed. If
you do manage to miss it, [V] will give you plenty of opportunities
to see it again with repeats being screened on Tuesday 10th June
at 1pm, Friday 13th June at 8pm and Sunday 15th June at 1pm. 
June
2003
In
other FMR news, V2 Records have announced a new licensing partnership
with Festival Mushroom Records, effective immediately for new releases.
Previously licensed by Zomba, the rest of the V2 back catalogue
will be available through FMR in Australia and New Zealand from
July 1. V2 will commence the new relationship with new albums from
the Stereophonics and Grandaddy coming out later this month. Other
albums that will follow include new releases from: Elbow, Nitin
Sawhney, The Burning Brides, and Liberty X amongst others, as well
as development acts like Katy Rose and PreThing. New singles to
check out from FMR this month include the Rogue Traders with their
club anthem "Stay", The Androids with "Brand New
Life", The Go Betweens with "Caroline & I" and
the newly signed Melbourne four piece Grandville with their debut
single "Walking In Circles".