Newcastle Music Week 2007 - Music Event

Heat Allocations

Heat 1

DATE: 7/8/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - Fear of Monsters
9.45 - 10.10pm - Gargamel's Cat
10.30 - 10.55pm - Goodnight Kids
11.15 - 11.40pm - CentreSection

Winner: Goodnight Kids

Heat 2

DATE: 14/8/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - The Jolyon Briggs Band
9.45 - 10.10pm - The Tunstalls
10.30 - 10.55pm - The Blinding Lights
11.15 - 11.40pm - Colliderskopic

Winner: The Tunstalls

Heat 3

DATE: 21/8/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - Stone Harlet
9.45 - 10.10pm - Falling of One
10.30 - 10.55pm - Grandvue
11.15 - 11.40pm - Missing Deltora

Heat 4

DATE: 28/8/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - The Winter Bloom
9.45 - 10.10pm - Boom Box
10.30 - 10.55pm - The General Managers
11.15 - 11.40pm - The Evening Son

Heat 5

DATE: 4/9/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - The Dread Sky
9.45 - 10.10pm - Life After Birth
10.30 - 10.55pm - Enders Game
11.15 - 11.40pm - Soul Tremor

Heat 6

DATE: 11/9/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - The Elevators
9.45 - 10.10pm - SuperImpoze
10.30 - 10.55pm - Crush
11.15 - 11.40pm - Corporate Smack

Heat 7

DATE: 18/9/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - Chontia & The New Colours
9.45 - 10.10pm - Excuse Fingers
10.30 - 10.55pm - Iridium
11.15 - 11.40pm - Waterview

Heat 8

DATE: 25/9/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - One Good Suggestion
9.45 - 10.10pm - Red Letter Project
10.30 - 10.55pm - The Deposits
11.15 - 11.40pm - Memorial Drive

Heat 9

DATE: 2/10/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - Sketching Cato
9.45 - 10.10pm - Zombies on Broadway
10.30 - 10.55pm - Avenue Of The Allies
11.15 - 11.40pm - Sabretung

Wildcard Night
DATE: 9/10/08
9.00 - 9.25pm - tba
9.45 - 10.10pm - tba
10.30 - 10.55pm - tba
11.15 - 11.40pm - tba

Semi Final 1
DATE: Tuesday 14/10/08
9.00 - 9.20pm - tba
9.40 - 10.00pm - tba
10.20 - 10.40pm - tba
11.00 - 11.20pm - tba
11.40 - 12.00pm - tba

Semi Final 2
DATE: Thursday 16/10/08
9.00 - 9.20pm - tba
9.40 - 10.00pm - tba
10.20 - 10.40pm - tba
11.00 - 11.20pm - tba
11.40 - 12.00pm - tba

The winner of the Resonate Showcase wins a prize package, including:

Recording and mixing at Damien Gerard Studios
3x 10 Hours recording
2x 10 Hours mixing
4 hours mastering at Benchmark Mastering Studio
100 - 200 CD's to be manufactured for the winner by CD-Genius
Artwork for the CD cover by Design Reaction
The Brewery to provide venue for CD launch
EAO to provide 1 month promotional consultation
1 x hour consultation with Michael Chugg
Physical distribution at a reduced rate from MGM
Rehearsal time (5 x 4 hour sessions) at The Studio
A band photo session with Betina Allen Photography
A drum cover from HitandRun drum covers

More prizes to be announced soon.

MEDIA RELEASE
RESONATE - The Music Industry Showcase 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.

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.

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.

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