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Join us and the Honourable Matt Foley, Minister for Employment, Training & Youth, and Minister for the Arts, for opening night drinks as we get ready to explore Queensland’s Music Industry in three days of forums. Doors open at 5pm.
Stick around as we kick start Big Sound with a panel of top industry speaker’s investigating the new and interesting ways that Australian acts are maintaining their careers outside the boundaries of traditional commercial enterprises in our first forum: New Wave: DIY
In today's music environment, sound business principals are an elementary ingredient ensuring the ongoing success of emerging artists. Many established artists are now stridently independent and are developing new and interesting ways of maintaining their careers outside the boundaries of traditional commercial enterprises.
Participate in a broader discussion / exploration of "independence" as an over-riding theme and share and hear others' experiences of balancing / maintaining independence alongside the drive of the record companies and the wider industry.
Facilitated By: Fred E Gostein
Has a wealth of 'on the ground' experience in the indie music scene, ranging across three states. He has written for Inpress and presented the 'Unsigned Artist' show on PBS (Melb) and managed/booked bands in Perth). Now living in Brisbane, he runs the indienews.live.com.au website/newsgroup and contributes to a plethora of online music zines.
Venue: The Healer
Free Session:
Bookings are absolutely essential. Places are reserved on a first in first served basis, with a maximum of four places reserved per registrar. Places can be booked by calling Q Music on (07) 3257 0013 only.
Please arrive no later than 30 minutes prior to commencement of forums to ensure your place. If you and your party do not arrive at this time, your place will be unreserved for other members of the public.
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Speakers
Features a diverse panel of music industry practitioners including:
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Katie Noonan (george)
One half of the vocal virtuosi that front this years biggest local success story, george. Katie studied Opera and Jazz at the Qld Conservatorium of Music and has toured internationally with the Paul Grabowski Australian Art Orchestra. She is also a gifted songwriter, contributing around half the material to their Debut LP, Polyserena.
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Mel Lake (Quietly Suburban, formerly of Modular)
Now in operation for just over three years, Quietly Suburban has released el Mopa, Sea Life Park, Sounds Like Sunset, Knievel, Ides of Space, Deloris and Purplene, and acts as a local distributor for US band Idaho. With 'independence and quality' the two basic tenets behind Quietly Suburban, Mel uses the label to provide promotional, managerial and booking support.
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Justin Holstein (Skinny's / Rhythm Ace)
Justin is a partner in Brisbane's Rhythm Ace Records (Rollerball, Filler, Giants of Science, King Mungi and Intercooler).
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Sebastian Chase (Phantom Records / MGM)
Managing Director of MGM Distribution and partner in Phantom Records. Sebastian been instrumental in the Australian indie million dollar success stories of Tim Freedman, The Whitlams and John Butler Trio. He has Managed the likes of Dragon, Cold Chisel and The Reels, and presided over labels that have brought us acts like Ratcat, The Whitlams, Nitocris and more.
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Lawrence English (I/O; room40)
Writes for Timeoff Magazine (Bris), and runs the mutli-arts organisation and imprint :room40::. Also creates sound design based music under the monika I/O. He is constantly undertaking a range of innovative and eclectic projects and knows how to approach getting music of an experimental nature out and about.
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Brian "Smash" Chladil (Media Rare/Hydrofunk)
Currently the managing director of Media Rare, management for Resin Dogs and Hydrofunk Records. Smash has a long history in the Australian music industry, from managing acts such as The Clouds and The Falling Joys. In most recent times Media Rare has had a steady involvement in organising major events such as Livid, Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass as well as Q Music's ROCKET Festival.
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Dave Leonard (Modern Music - Butterfly Effect)
Founder of Modern Music, an independent Label, publisher and commercial recording studio in Brisbane. Produced work for The Butterfly Effect, Devolved, Tim Carter, Melodyssey, Shane Stephens, Vaughan Ney, Japunga, AirKraft and more. Recently licensed Brisbane band The Butterfly Effect to Roadshow Music / Sony Distribution and is heading into overseas territories to expand its roster.
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