Newcastle Music Week 2007 - Music Event

Newcastle Music Week is the largest and most unique event of its type on the Australian musical landscape. This cultural and educationally based event encompasses a week of live music, workshops, seminars, and an Industry Showcase that highlights the quality of the Hunter's emerging artists. The festival is coordinated by staff and students of the Music Industry courses offered by TAFE NSW Hunter Institute. Newcastle Music Week is now in its fifth successful year.

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RESONATE - The Music Industry Showcase 2008

For immediate release Friday 18th April 2008

Resonate - the Music Industry Showcase 2008 is proudly presented by TAFE NSW Hunter Institute and sponsored by Coca-Cola, EAO Entertainment and The Brewery.
It is shaping up to be Newcastle's biggest opportunity to showcase our vibrant local music scene this year!

Resonate, the Music Industry Showcase 08, bridges the gap between local bands and the national music industry! The Brewery provides the perfect backdrop for young emerging artists to prove themselves to industry judges. They are vying for a spot at the Grand Final at the Civic Theatre come October during Newcastle Music Week.
Newcastle Music Week, now in its sixth year, is produced by the students at Hunter TAFE studying Music Industry Business and Technology.

The 2007 winners of Resonate, Vaudeville, have released their debut EP with the help of the $20,000 prize package,. "Winning Resonate has helped our career in so many ways. We made contacts in the music industry, won thousands of dollars worth of prizes as well as having our next EP recorded for free! It gave us instant recognition and a head start in the industry which we sorely needed" band member Chris English said.

In 2006, competition winners Light Noise won the coveted support slot for Silverchair on NYE at The Brewery. Their self-titled debut EP has also been released through Reign Records with national distribution through MGM.

If you're an amateur or professional band and don't have a contract with, or receive financial assistance from a major record company; this is the ideal launch pad for your career. All band members must be 18 or over and reside in Newcastle, Central Coast or Hunter Region to be eligible to enter.

Entries into Resonate will open on the 12th May 2008 and close 30th June 2008, so get your act together and give it a go!
The Brewery will play host to nine jam-packed heats, plus two massive semi-finals.
Heats will kick off in early August 2008.
The Grand Final will be showcased at Newcastle's Civic Theatre on October 31, 2008.

Winners of Resonate this year come away with not only having performed at the famous Civic Theatre Newcastle, but will perform to Music Industry professionals from top indie companies AND win prizes valued at over $20,000.
Keep your ear to the ground for details of the awesome prizes on offer this year.

Resonate entrants are lucky enough in the first selection process to have their demos played to a panel of music industry professionals, including Heath Johns (A&R Manager, Universal Music Publishing), Clive Hodson (General Manager, Shock Music Publishing) and Scott Bradbury (NSW State Manager, Shock Entertainment).

If you've got an original repertoire and are eligible to enter Resonate - The Music Industry Showcase 08, get your entry form at The Brewery, EAO Entertainment, Hunter TAFE Music Centre or online at:
www.newcastlemusicweek.com.au
www.eao.com.au
www.qwb.com.au

WHAT: Resonate - The Music Industry Showcase
FEATURING: Newcastle and the Hunter Region's original bands
WHERE: The Brewery, Newcastle
WHEN: Heats commence early August 2008
ENTRY: Free to public

Here are some tips when preparing your bands press kit:

1. Submit up to 3 songs, and put your strongest song first. If the killer part of any song is the chorus and it takes 30 or 40 seconds to get there, consider re-writing the song, so that the strongest part gets there sooner. Long-winded intro's may cause judges to lose interest.
2. Do not send your songs in the MP3 format. We will only accept CD entries.
3. Include photo's of your band. We require 300 dpi. If we use them for promotion on our web site or posters we want quality results. Consider a separate CD with the photo files on it, so we don't have to chase them up at a later date.
4. Spend some time doing a professional band biography, check it, and then double check it, for punctuation and typo's. Then get someone else to read it, fresh eyes can pick up things that the author has missed.
5. Label everything and include contact names and numbers, there is nothing worse than having a photo or CD and having no idea who the band is.
6. Put at least two contact phone numbers in your press kit in case someone is not available to take the call.
7. Be professional in your approach to doing this press kit, this is the real world, and a half baked presentation of your band will not do you any favours, if anything it could loose you points in the final cull.

Entries close on 30th June 2008

Entry forms will be available shortly (we will post bulletins on Myspace)

Get your entry form at The Brewery, EAO Entertainment, Muso's Corner, The Drum Shop or online at:
www.newcastlemusicweek.com.au
www.eao.com.au
www.qwb.com.au

ALL ENTRIES can now be mailed to: Resonate/Newcastle Music Week/Music Centre/TAFE NSW Hunter Institute/ Locked bag 45 HRMC/NSW 2310
OR can now be dropped at:
The Queens Wharf Brewery - Wharf Road, Newcastle
EAO Entertainment - 1st Floor 826 Hunter Street, Newcastle West
The Music Department - (D Block, 1st floor) at Newcastle TAFE, Tighes Hill Campus

For media inquiries contact:
Ian Belcher at EAO Entertainment on 4962 1855
e-mail ian@eao.com.au
Or
Christina Sykiotis Newcastle Music Week on 0425 236 156
e-mail newiemusic@hotmail.com

For all other enquiries contact , Christina Sykiotis
e-mail newiemusic@hotmail.com