New Signings & Team-Ups: October 11
BAKEHOUSE STUDIOS EXTENDS WITH MPAVILION
Bakehouse Studios, one of Melbourne’s largest rehearsal and recording studios, will expand its reach for the next four months with MPavilion.
It has partnered with MPavilion in Queen Victoria Gardens, which is open to the public from this month to February 4 with innovative and experimental activity.
The amphitheatre-style structure was designed by influential architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of international firm OMA.
The venue will host emerging and established musical acts in Bakehouse’s little black book.
MPavilion will periodically transform into an extension of Bakehouse’s studios, bringing a series of public rehearsals and secret shows.
Visitors to MPavilion will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of songs, the pre-production process for a recording or a full-blown dress rehearsal.
Also coming is a special Bakehouse-curated MTalks event during Melbourne Music Week.
This event is proudly supported by Yamaha Music Australia.
For more information visit the official website.
CHILD OF THE MOON
Our Golden Friend took the opportunity when the October Full Moon rose in the zodiac sign of Aries in the southern hemisphere to announce the addition of Moonlover to their roster.
Moonlover is the musical project of Melbourne based mystic reveller Quang Dinh. His new single ‘Thou Shall Be Free’ is title track of his debut album to be released on the February Full Moon.
He says, “David Bowie contacted me from the other-side in a dream.
“I was halfway between this world and the next when he sung to me the first lines of the song ’Oh, oh, oh, oh, thou shall be free’.”
TOTALLY MILD TURN A CHAPTER
Guitar pop band Totally Mild have turned a new chapter in more ways than one.
They’ve signed to Chapter Music, who dug their debut Down Time (released by Bedroom Suck in Australia and Fire Records in the UK) and brought them on board for their second album, out early 2018.
The band has also gone through a drummer change which they’ll introduce during November shows in Melbourne and Sydney.
APPLE DROPS 10-PART ELVIS BIOPIC
A 10-part Elvis Presley biopic has been dumped by Apple Music in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein train wreck.
Apple had a deal with The Weinstein Co which would get exclusive footage from the Presley estate (Priscilla Presley was to executiver0-produce), and biopics of Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Prince were also on the slate as part of Apple’s shift to more original content..
PEERMUSIC ATTRACTS ELEGANT SHIVA
Peermusic Australia have gained the publishing rights to Byron Bay duo Elegant Shiva.
The company’s Gary Seeger said he had to sign them after they delivered four demos in four days.
The band, for their part, said, “Coming from Byron Bay, family and community is everything to us.”Peermusic is not just a publishing company, but newfound family members.”
POP UP STORE FOR MIGOS
Just before their tour kicks off this week, hotter-than-hotter US rap group Migos have a Dirty South Australia pop up store on Thursday (October 12) at The Old Growler at 218 William St, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, 11am – 6pm.
For fans outside Sydney, commencing Friday October 13,
there will be a limited run of this exclusive Australian merchandise sold at Sneakerboy Sydney, Melbourne and Gold Coast, and Lessons in Perth.
There’s also the Migos online store for 72 hours at the official website.
PROPER PICKS UP SRD
Proper Music Group, the largest independent distributor in the UK, has signed a new global fulfilment deal for Southern Record Distributors’ (SRD) roster of 200 indie labels.
These include Light In The Attic (Rodriguez, Lee Hazlewood), Kompakt (The Field, Gas), Daptone (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley), and Text (Four Tet), as well as The Leaf Label, Tresor and Melodic.
Proper will now manage SRD’s pick, pack and ship and warehousing for its vast exclusive label base. It has a new 100,000ft², purpose-built warehouse which more than quadruples Proper’s existing space, and will introduce state of the art automated systems, further improving capacity and efficiency across operations.
Drew Hill, Managing Director at Proper, commented: “It is a pleasure to start work with Andy and Steve, and we are happy to help protect the independence of one of Europe’s biggest distributors.”
123 AGENCYROSTER LAID BARE
With a fiery set at UNIFY Gathering 2017 and a national run with Stone Sour to 15,000 in a week, Sydney’s Bare Bones continue their five-year rise as one of the best punk outfits.
Earlier signing to punk label Resist through which they released their debut album Bad Habits, the band has also assigned its bookings to 123 Agency and are set to hit the road.
WARNER CHAPPELL INKS CRISPIN HUNT
Crispin Hunt, who’s written and produced tracks for Ellie Goulding, Florence + the Machine, JP Cooper, Lana Del Ray and Jake Bugg., has been signed worldwide by Warner Chappell.
Hunt, former singer in Sheffield band Longpigs, is Chair of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA); former CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), and elected director of PPL and PRS For Music.
He also sits on the UK Intellectual Property Office Copyright Advisory Panel.
GREAT ESCAPE GOES DOUBLE DUTCH
The Netherlands will be The Great Escape’s lead international partner at the 2018 event. Dutch Music Export and festival will be highlighting the Netherlands’ music industry from May 17-19.
Previous lead international partnerships have included Canada, New Zealand, France and Switzerland.
TWO MORE GET SELECTED
Select Music booking agency has in recent weeks added Melbourne hip hop act Baker Boy and Perth’s POW! Negro.
WMG PACTS LICENCING DEAL WITH MIXLOUD
Warner Music Group has become the first major label to sign a licensing deal with streaming platform Mixcloud.
It has 12 million radio shows, DJ sets, and podcasts from more than one million providers, including DJs such as Carl Cox and Tiesto, and experimentalist David Byrne, independent radio stations.
Its ID system allows individual tracks within long-form user-generated audio to be identified and paid for.
The Warner deal means that Mixcloud can now provide a subscription offering whereby customers can subscribe to individual creator channels.
OPERA HOUSE TO PREMIERE STRANGER THINGS
The Sydney Opera House will be one of the venues premiering Netflix’s cult drama Stranger Things at the same time as Los Angeles, London, San Paolo, Milan and Madrid.
It will be hosted in the SOH’s Concert Hall on October 27, hours (transformed into the supernatural, with guests asked to come in character) before Season 2 drops on Netflix.
The trailer has generated 12 million hits on YouTube.
SBS EXPANDS DALET DEAL
Australian broadcaster SBS has extended its deal with Singapore-based Dalet to expand orchestration and content collaboration across all radio, TV and digital platforms.
It will cover production and distribution of news, sports, radio programs in multiple languages and music content across the broadcaster’s TV, radio and digital platforms.
Specifically, Dalet will unify content preparation, production and ingest at two TV studios and eight radio studios in Sydney and an additional eight radio studios in Melbourne, bringing together up to 300 simultaneous users working with the system.