From answers at whatmanagement.com Thu Nov 3 05:45:25 2005 From: answers at whatmanagement.com (Alistair Cranney) Date: Sun Nov 12 23:32:58 2006 Subject: [Hirstandgreene] Fotsun - Press Release Message-ID: Hi Guys, Just a note to let you know that we are playing this wonderful festival. If you happen to be in the area we would love to see you there! Hirst & Greene Presented by triple j, fasterlouder.com.au & The Drum Media Tune in to Triple J Tuesday 1st November at 12:30 when Myf Warhurst talks to a Fotsun Artist The Line up includes :- Sarah Blasko * Gerling * Things of Stone and Wood * The Herd * The Mess Hall * Ash Grunwald * Hirst and Greene * iOTA * The Devoted Few * Intercooler * Blue King Brown * Fourth Floor Collapse * Gabriel?s Day * Aurora Jane * Nebo * Level One * Pink Stik * Jez * The McMenamins * Israel Cannan * Jess Maynard * Brian Campeau * Jade Flynn The Venue... This eclectic mix will showcase some of the best bands, singer/songwriters and up and coming talent in the country, set in one of the most amazing festival venues yet. The festival will be held on the beach in the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park, which occupies eight hectares of beachfront land right in the heart of Port Macquarie. The location is incredible with a stage backdrop of surf, sun and sand, highlighting what the East Coast Summer Culture is all about ? lazing at the beach, listening to great music. www.fotsun.com The site has a capacity of 3,000 people, ensuring an intimate, cruisy environment, allowing festival goers to get up close and personal with their favourite artists. Camping is also on-site and the town centre is minutes away, so once you get here that?s it, no need to travel anywhere for the next two days. The festival is also BYO, avoiding expensive bar prices and with camping on site it will be easy to store your supplies. (strictly no glass and no crazy amounts) a national competition to uncover Australia?s future ARIA Award winning music video creators! SunScreen was created to give Australian independent artists and music video makers the chance to showcase their videos to Australian audiences, minus the competition of massive budgets and major label promotion teams. If you are an artist or director and you have a clip you wish to enter head to www.fotsun.com/sunscreen for more info on the $10,000 music video package you can win. Entries are now screening at www.fasterlouder.com.au/sunscreen. Vote for your favourite clip and be a weekly chance to WIN a double pass to Festival Of The Sun or the major prize is 3 days at a secret beach house for 10 friends all expenses paid party. Festival of the Sun is an all ages event and tickets are $95.00 (inc 2 nights free camping) on sale through http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gigguide/show/5465/ . And the extra bonus, if you have young children there is a Kid?s Club running each day. For further information call Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park on 02 6583 2755 or log onto www.fotsun.com. . Sarah Blasko The beginning of 2005 saw the band in this form take to the stage for the very first time on their own national headlining tour, and following that a whirlwind international tour. Sarah Blasko?s debut album, ?The Overture & The Underscore? speaks largely for itself. www.sarahblasko.com Gerling Gerling Gerling - three scruffy punks, with nice shoes, daring to push the envelope and challenge the mainstream. Armed with broken equipment, and ready to take on the world. On top of an ever-expanding live fan base in Australia, Japan has also been a ready and willing audience with headzcleaner being released on Sony music to rave reviews, coupled with a storming live set at Fuji festival in 2002 that saw Gerling in front of 6,000 far eastern fans www.gerling.net.au Things of Stone & Wood Things of Stone adn Wood Legendary Folk Rock band Things of Stone and Wood have been recording and touring for 17 Years. While they are best known for their time spent on radio and the charts in the 90s (with such songs as Happy Birthday Helen, Share this Wine and Wildflowers)- it has been their ever fiery and emotive live shows that has given them such longevity. And watch out for a VERY special guest at the festival! www.thingsofstoneandwood.com.au The Herd The Herd The Herd are back with their latest album The Sun Never Sets. They've had a Triple J Feature album and a massive national tour which included a sold out show at Sydney's Metro Theatre. The Herd's recent shows have firmly cemented their place as one of the most innovative, vibrant, hard working, live hip hop outfits in Australia. www.elefanttraks.com The Mess Hall The Mess Hall The Mess Hall features Jed Kurzel on guitar/vocals and Cec Condon on drums/vocals The Mess Hall went back into the studio to come up with an EP FEELING SIDEWAYS . Co-produced by Chris Joannou of silverchair and engineer/producer, Matt Lovell www.themesshall.com.au Ash Grunwald Ash Grunwald Australian Blues Vocalist of the year (2003) Ash Grunwald is reinventing the genre for a modern audience. Combining delta blues with hypnotic, ?phat? grooves, this one-man band has played his unique songs on his resonator guitar to audiences from the Mississippi Delta to the furthest reaches of coastal Australia. More than just a powerhouse vocalist, Ash is sliding, stomping and hollering his way into the lives of fresh audiences around the globe. www.ashgrunwald.com Hirst and Greene Hirst and Greene When the percussive song writing soul of Midnight Oil, Rob Hirst meets ex Olympian singer/songwriter troubadour Paul Greene the vocal chemistry is electric. Hirst & Greene perform beautifully crafted songs that invoke thoughts of surf, sun, politics and passion. Fresh from a national tour with Ani Difranco, Hirst & Greene are performing selected dates in Australia. www.hirstandgreene.com iOTA iOTA iOTA burst onto the Australian alternative music scene back in 1999 and quickly became a live performer of legendary status netting himself a strong grass-roots following. Three albums, two ARIA Award nominations and national airp lay for 7 singles brought iOTA to the attention of the mainstream media and helped earn him the reputation as one of Australia?s most exciting and promising singer/songwriters. www.iota.com.au The Devoted Few The Devoted Few The Devoted Few formed in the summer of 2001. Demoing quickly, the band were signed and recorded their d?but album (sleepless) with Wayne Connelly (Youth Group) within months of forming. After a year and a half of touring The Devoted Few came back to record their second album (Billboard Noises) with producer Jonathan Burnside (Sleepy Jackson). Insert another year of touring and 4 high rotation singles on jjj The Devoted Few turned to Tim Whitten (Panics) to record their new EP(Schematic Tracks) featuring their latest high rotation single - Sleep Less. The Devoted Few are definitely a band to watch out for! www.thedevotedfew.com Intercooler Intercooler Intercooler the Brisbane based 4 piece guitar power pop outfit formed in 2001. Released debut album Old School Is The New School in 2002 to rave reviews and loads of airplay with the singles Goodness Of The Girl, Crimson Cracker and Leaflet. Latest EP Dance Of A Thousand Promises (2004) featuring If I Try and Cream Puff . Toured extensively in Australia many times supporting the likes of Maximo Park, Teenage Fanclub, Gomez, J Mascis, The Casanovas, Buzzcocks, Grinspoon,Screamfeeder, Preston School Of Industry and The Delgados. Also toured the US 3 times playing with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age and Red Hot Chili Peppers.www.intercoolermusic.com Blue King Brown Blue King Brown Blue King Brown bring a dynamic new sound fusing soul, rock, hip hop, roots reggae and percussive grooves with an original rhythmic edge. Gig highlights include opening act for THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO and MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD. www.bluekingbrown.com Fourth Floor Collapse Fourth Floor Collapse Fourth Floor Collapse is one of Australia?s most intensely captivating live bands. Originating from Perth, the band has toured the country regularly promoting radio favourites such as Sun and Stories Unglued. In 2005, the band has made the move across the country to bring the east coast the experience of their music and live performance on regular basis. The band?s upcoming album due for release January 2006 brings band?s musical depth to the fore, while the power of their live performance continues to intensify. This is a band that should never be missed. www.fourthfloorcollapse.com Gabriel's Day Gabriel's Day Described by the critics as ?Coldplay with infinitely more substance? (Logo UK), ?sweeping, epic, contemporary rock, that means something? (Rolling Stone), ?striding with the melodies of the Finn Brothers? (Drum Media), ?brimming with heartfelt emotion? (Time Off) Gabriel' s Day have had 3 Australian tours, 2 UK tours, and have shared the stage with Spiderbait and After the Fall. www.gabrielsday.com Aurora Jane Aurora Jane A distinctive sound and definitive lyrics breathe new life into Australian music. Introduced at the Woodford Folk Festival as the ?the secrete love child of Ani Difranco & Jimi Hendrix?, Aurora Jane features the songwriting of prolific original artist Jane Hole. www.aurorajane.com Nebo Nebo Formerly known as ALF, Brisbane swamp rock / blues roots outfit NEBO have appeared at the Woodford Folk Festival three times. Their debut album ?Along the Way? hit?s shelves this summer, first single ?My Wave? has already been added to various FM playlists including the ?All Alone? has been receiving JJJ play www.nebomusic.com.au Level One Blending traditional, contemporary, earthy & progressive sounds, Level-One have created their own genre mixing violin, acoustic guitars, 5 string bass, African percussion, drum kit and four-way harmonies. Flavours of blues, jazz, folk & funk. A combination of solid beats, lyrical artistry with harmonic strings to create a unique and truly individual new roots groove. www.levelone.biz Pink Stik Pink Stik Pink Stik are five girls from the Coast who love to rock! They started off in March this year with a passion for distortion and heavy beats. They have all orginal music with distinctive lyrics and hardcore riffs, a sound that can only be described as rock meets girl. The last couple of months have seen Pink Stik rise quickly going from playing local crowds to big shows in Sydney in the space of one month! The Big Exo Day saw the girls play at the Sydney Tennis Centre with crowd size of 10 thousand plus and then going on to win CMC?s Band comp to play at the Taste of Chaos Tour with The Used. www.myspace.com/pinkstikgirls Jez Jez Hailing from Byron Bay in the beautiful north coast of NSW, Jez is a hard working guitarist/singer/song-writer, & passionate live performer. Jez is driven by a devotion to rythym and melodic experimentation. Percussive guitar, stomp-box and strong smokey vocals make for a big, full sound from this dymanic and intimate performer.www.theofficialjezsite.com The McMenamins The McMenamins The McMenamins are an indie brother-sister duo, endearing themselves to audiences across Australia, delivering original acoustic music in a storytelling and often foot-stompin? style. After forming for the 2003 Woodford Folk Festival they have since released their self-titled debut album (out through MGM distribution) which has gained airplay on Triple J, fbi and community radio stations. Their first national tour in October 2005 saw them opening for Missy Higgins and Ben Lee. The McMenamins? honeyed vocal harmonies and instrumental line up allow them to create their own brand of alternative, rockin' country-folk, which incites an awesome audience reaction time after time. www.themacswebsite.com Israel Cannan Israel Cannan Fresh out of the central coast comes Israel Cannan. This young acoustic artist has had a busy year following the release of his debut ep ?Heroes in heaven?. From coast to coast, across the nullabor and back his soulful Live performances have captured audiences nation wide. With the flexibility to play shows with punk rockers ?Kiss chasey?/Something with numbers then all the way through to Australian folk legends such as The Whitlams/Mick hart. He truly is one to watch out for. www.israelcannan.com Jess Maynard Jess is an aspiring young musician whose passion for song writing stems from a childhood full of lazy afternoons on the mid north coast where the only thing to do was sit on the veranda and play guitar! Her songs reflect these long summer days and aim to go deep into the Australian psyche, exploring what it means to be a young person in this unique country. Her song ?Grains of Sand? is used on Foxtel?s ?Aurora Channel? as their promotional song. Jess has played at various youth festivals and university events and she recently supported US artist ?That One Guy? when he last toured the east coast of Australia. Brian Campeau Six years ago, feeling unfulfilled by the bar chords and bubblegum of his punk rock roots, Brian decided to pursue a solo career. Drawing on influences from Folk, Jazz, and Experimental Rock he has developed a sound termed ?progressive folk-jazz?. Brian?s eclectic live show has made him well respected artist in the Australian music scene, and has seen him support established international acts, such as James Blunt (UK), and That One Guy (USA). www.briancampeau.com Jade Flynn As one of Australia's most promising young solo artists, Jade has been cutting his teeth on acoustic shows and roots festivals around the country. Jade's brand of gritty acoustic rock is unashamedly in your face both in sheer musical intensity and message. With soaring vocal melodies and toe-tapping rhythm, Jade's heart-on-your-sleeve live performances offer a refreshing respite from the same old that smacks of the most endearing innocence and hope for the future. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hirstandgreene.com/pipermail/hirstandgreene/attachments/20051103/6c71bf76/attachment.html