SYDNEY, Australia (By Phil Tripp/ www.immedia.com.au) - SXSW Official Showcases:
Bluebottle Kiss (Sydney ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA The Drink
Clue to Kalo (Adelaide ) Thursday, March 16 TBA Zero Degrees
Dappled Cities Fly (Sydney) Wednesday, March 15 TBA Buffalo Billiards
Decoder Ring (Sydney ) Saturday, March 18 TBA Red 7
End Of Fashion (Perth ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA Buffalo Billiards
The Flairz (Fremantle ) Friday, March 17 8 p.m. Buffalo Billiards
Function (Melbourne ) Thursday, March 16 TBA Hideout, The
The Gear (Melbourne ) Saturday, March 18 TBA Blender Balcony at the Ritz
The Grates (Brisbane ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA The Parish
Grey Daturas (Melbourne ) Friday, March 17 TBA Central Presbyterian Church
Gyroscope (Perth ) Saturday, March 18 TBA Friends
Missy Higgins (Melbourne ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA The 18th Floor at Capitol Place
Kisschasy (Melbourne ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA The Drink
The Living End (Chelsea ) Thursday, March 16 TBA Emo's Main Room
Love of Diagrams (Melb) Wednesday, March 15 9:15 p.m. Dirty Dog Bar
Lovetones (Sydney ) Friday, March 17 10:00 p.m. Bourbon Rocks
The Mess Hall (Sydney ) Thursday, March 16 12:00 a.m. The Jackalope
Morning After Girls (Sydney ) Saturday, March 18 12:00 a.m. Blender Bar at the Ritz
The Presets (Melbourne ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA Eternal
Shifter (Brisbane ) Thursday, March 16 1:00 a.m. The Jackalope
Sia (Adelaide ) Saturday, March 18 TBA The Parish
Something for Kate (Melb) Thursday, March 16 TBA Tambaleo
Wolfmother (Sydney ) Wednesday, March 15 TBA Eternal
Los Angeles (Now sold out, no comps or passes nor tickets for sale) Special Show presented by Australian Music Collective https://www.australianmusiccollective.com
Monday 13th March
The Troubadour
Doors Open at 7.00PM
Decoder Ring 7.30 – 8.00pm
The Flairz 8.15 – 8.45pm
Kisschasy 9.00 – 9.30pm
The Mess Hall 9.45 – 10.15pm
The Living End 10.30 – 11.30pm
1. WEST AUSTRALIA MUSIC PARTY-Saturday March 18 at 3 pm For the third year WAM, The West Australian Music Industry Association, will stage an additional showcase party for the WA acts that are making the longest trek of all to SxSW 06. Performing will be End Of Fashion, Gyroscope and The Flairz; a mammoth rock'n'roll lineup in anyone's language.
The Western Australian Artist Showcase will take place on Saturday, March 18 from 3pm at Positively E. 4th Street, a new venue a few blocks east of the Austin Convention Centre. An historic space that was once a Texaco Warehouse, it is described as "seriously funky and hopelessly hip". Lammies for this exclusive event can be obtained from Paul Bodlovich of WAM - [email protected].
2. AUSSIE BBQ LINE UP FRIDAY 17TH MARCH
BRUSH SQUARE PARK, AUSTIN TX. 11.30AM - 7PM
The fourth annual event presented by Australian Music Collective in Association with Austrade's Australian Music Office in Los Angeles.
Bands confirmed so far include:
Dappled Cities Fly
Kisschasy
Decoder Ring
Something For Kate
The Flairz
Gyroscope
The Grates
End Of Fashion
The Mess Hall
The Living End
For further updates & schedule go to https://www.australianmusiccollective.com or contact Mary Mihelakos ([email protected])
3. NEW YORK POST-SxSW SHOWS NOW ANNOUNCED
Special Shows presented by Australian Music Collective https://www.australianmusiccollective.com
For media access, contact Mary [email protected]
Wednesday 22nd March - Mercury Lounge, 212 E Houston St, New York
Something For Kate
Decoder Ring
Blue Bottle Kiss
Dappled Cities Fly
Love of Diagrams
Thursday 23rd March - Crash Mansion, 199 The Bowery, New York
Function
Gyroscope
Kisschasy and more to be announced.
And so you have it, here's a backgrounder on our presence!
BACKGROUND on South by Southwest-Facts, stats, expanded info on government support & quotes below
Over 420 Australian and New Zealand artists applied for the crucial showcase side of SxSW, of which 54 were invited. There are currently 23 Australian artists showcasing (several had to drop out due to recording or touring commitments, personal reasons or funding shortfalls), and there are 10 New Zealand bands also playing.
The 34 bands playing in 2006 is an almost eightfold increase from the five that appeared in 2002.
The 200+ OZ & NZ registrants in addition to artists will be over eight times the 25 attending in 2002.
With over 10,000 music business registrants including 1000 key print, radio and television journalists, it's a networking beehive which the Australian Trade Commission (AUSTRADE) has supported for four years with a major 36 square metre stand presence, a sponsored 10 act Australian Barbecue Concert on top of the night shows & a 36 page free 'street-press' style magazine with 15,000 copies of the 'Australian Music Guide' circulated at key music and book retailers, venues and in each delegate's showbag. There are also podcasts of show planned for thos who can not make them and satellite broadcasts of shows and interviews for radio dissemination.
New Zealand's Federal Government, in concert with the New Zealand Music Industry Commission, has also booked its fourth annual stand and will hold an opening night party/concert of Kiwi bands in Brush Park March 15. In addition, the West Australian state government will host its third private party Saturday March 18 at SxSW and assist in travel expenses and promotion of participating WA acts through Arts WA and the WA Music Industry Association. Continuing support of governments has added to continued success of Australian and New Zealand artists & businesses.
Commenting on the largest number of Australian bands and music executives in the US at any one time, AUSTRADE's Business Development Manager of the recently created Australian Music Office at the Los Angeles Consulate, Tony George, states, 'AUSTRADE's Music Office has gone the extra mile this year by spearheading innovative new ways to give artists, bands and music industry executives exposure and networking opportunities at this mammoth music marketplace which has been a critical strategy of music exporting over the past three years as the result of government and industry synergy. Our continued investment is a result of escalating success.'
Among the initiatives are a teleconferencing 'boot camp' where bands and delegates gathered February 2 in AUSTRADE offices across Australia six weeks out from SxSW, to get the latest information on visa procurement, publicity, promotion, dealmaking opportunities and other strategies of attacking the North American market from experts in the online networking session. Aside from the resources of the three day trade fair stand presence and marketing magazine, media appearances and in-store shows are also being lined up as well as airplay on satellite radio and Internet sites.
SxSW representative for Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, Phil Tripp, is based in Sydney at IMMEDIA! which for four years has expanded the attendance and enabled the success of participants from the farthest countries in the world that participate. 'Having been in the industry 30 years, Australia for 25 and having run national presences at global music markets for 20, we knew the potential for Australia and New Zealand at SxSW was phenomenal since our live performance based artist and contemporary music styles matched the needs of the North American marketplace that SxSW services.
As the event has grown over the past four years to incorporate more countries' attendees, we've reaped the benefits from creating and maintaining a strong Australian 'brand' at the event through the governments' support of stands, promotion and media. At least 10 major deals have come out of 2005's SxSW AustralAsian Invasion and we feel the outcome of this year's participation will make a major contribution to our export music income.'
The AustralAsian South by Southwest website is at https://www.themusic.com.au/sxsw.
The official South by Southwest website is at https://www.sxsw.com
For further information, images & interviews contact Phil Tripp [email protected] or (02) 9557 7766.
