Letter to bands in the Great Australian Wave

Letter to my band playing the Great Australian Wave. Some good info on the showcase and also on venues.
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Hey guys,

We will be keeping you more updated now. You will start getting heaps...
Things have been SO changeable, and I hate to say one thing and then have to do another. That is what keeps happening to me, and I have had to keep up. We have had a couple of pretty stressful weeks, and it was just nice to get all of your e mails. Here is the info and the outline you asked for, but if you need more, just ask. We are "almost" back to normal now and I will try my best to be better with info for everyone!!!

The definite bands are:
Tracer, Worldfly, Death Mattel, Eden James, and Mijo Biscan of Lamplight

Tracer www.myspace.com/traceronmyspace
Death Mattel www.myspace.com/deathmattel
Eden James http://www.myspace.com/edenjames
Worldfly www.myspace.com/worldfly
Mijo BIscan of Lamplight www.myspace.com/lamplightmusic

The Definite Dates are:

Sept. 15th Cologne, the MTC Club,
Zülpicher Str. 10
50674 Köln, Germany
+49 221 2404188
http://www.angelfire.com/de/mtcpage/

Sept. 17th Berlin,
KATO KULTURBAHNHOF KREUZBERG GmbH
Im U-Bhf. Schlesisches Tor
10997 Berlin
Fon: 030 - 6112339
http://www.kato-x-berg.de/main.html


Sept. 18th Lubeck, Germany, Sounds Night Club,
Discothek SOUNDS
EMail: info at soundsclub.de
An der Untertrave 81 - 83
23552 Lübeck
(0172) 540 50 50
http://www.soundsclub.de/

Sept. 20th Amsterdam
Winston Kingdom
www.winston.nl
Warmoesstraat 131
1012 JB Amsterdam, Netherlands
+31 20 6231380

I will give everyone a playing time and we will do it so the loudest rock is last, so that people with quiet acoustic music don't follow thrash metal. The times are unimportant at a showcase, it is all down to you guys having a time to play to get important local people there to see you!!! Really you should be able to play at 1pm in the afternoon for a showcase and get the important persons that you need to your gig.

Mijo Biscan (Lamplight) has kindly agreed to do the stage management. He has been to Popkomm and knows a few things about touring in Europe. We will also have a couple of other people that are doing the merch, door, etc.. So life will be made easy on you all where possible.

IF those of you that haven't send us a stage plan could send one thru immediately that would be great. We will have the sound check order and times to you when we get all that info.

Cheers, see you SOON!!!

Steve

--Stephen Iorio
steve@thevagrants.com.au
www.thevagrants.com.au
www.blindbeatroot.com
www.myspace.com/vagrantsmusic

We Are Hunted, comes to the rescue!!!

HAPPY DAYS!!!

Since the withdrawal of funding for the Great Australian Wave by Arts Victoria so many people have come to the aid of independent Australian Bands that it is just totally UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

The relatively new and very cool website
http://wearehunted.com/
has pledged their financial support of the Great Australian Wave(GAW)!!! WOW, thanks and I think all the bands heading to Europe will certainly be impressed. They just approached us and said they want to help. This is just what the doctor ordered and we are all over the moon.

It is a new music site that listens to online discussion, sentiment and sharing to chart the 99 most popular songs online each day. We Are Hunted which was developed with Native Digital, is basically the music chart for the digital generation, tracking the 99 most popular songs online each day across blogs, social networks, forums and P2P networks.

See what these guys have written....
http://www.digital-media.net.au/Article/Wotnews-and-Native-launch-local-music-hub/476539.aspx (08/04/2009)

Cheers,
Steve Iorio and Renate Iorio
www.thegreataustralianwave.com
www.blindbeatroot.com
www.thevagrants.com.au

http://www.blindbeatroot.com

I am back!!!
After 3 weeks of stress I am back on the ball again. I hope you are all still in the helping spirit, because some bands will need some help!!!

Some brave bands have decided to go to Germany in spite of the failure of Popkomm and the Arts Victoria grant withdrawal.

Tracer, Worldfly, Death Mattel, Eden James, and Mijo Biscan of Lamplight will be playing in Cologne, Berlin, Lubeck and Amsterdam between September 15th and 220th. See the website for details:
http://www.thegreataustralianwave.com/

Hopefully there will be a few more dates getting added.

Cheers, and thanks for all the support so far!!
Much appreciated,
Steve Iorio and Renate Iorio,
www.thevagrants.com.au
www.blindbeatroot.com