Australian Music Week Online--Webcasts All week
Phil Tripp
The Basement Stages Week of Australian Actsą Live Concerts & Encore Performances
A unique initiative that combines a week of live concerts and replays from
the library of live performances of Sydney venue The Basement--webcast by
TheBasement.com.au --with a promotion by leading Australian etailers and
all levels of the Australian music industry, will hit the Internet the
week of Sunday July 29 through to Saturday August 4. Itąs the debut of
the annual Australian Music Week Online event, created by producers of
the Australian Online Music Awards (ONYA! Awards) that are being held at
The Basement August 4.
A series of events in the prior week will be staged to shine the
cyber-spotlight on homegrown performing and recording artists, Australian
music etailers & music e-commerce sites, music business sites and
Australian music fan or music information Internet presences. Itąs an
online initiative free of charge for the Australian music industry,
totally non-profit, not associated in any way with any existing music
associations or their Australian music promotions. It costs nothing to be
a part, & is open to all.
AUSTRALIAN MUSIC WEEK ONLINE WEBCASTS‹Broadband and Internet radio station
TheBasement.com.au is staging a week of Australian concerts both live at
The Basement venue in Circular Quay, Sydney, as well as enhancing the
series with encore performances from its archive of local artist gigs.
Every evening starting Sunday July 29 at 8pm AEST, a mix of live and
archive performances will be programmed to a global audience. Site is
http://www.thebasement.com.au
OZMUSIC ONSALE ONLINE‹Leading Australian online music retailers ChaosMusic
(http://www.chaosmusic.com)and Sanity.com(http://www.sanity.com.au) are
the first to commit, featuring promotions and sales of Australian artist
releases with special emphasis on those releases of online performing
artists in the concert series. Geared to attracting export product of
Australian origin, it will boost revenues of Oz online retail through a
variety of etail entities & ties in to the concert series.
THE AUSTRALIAN STREAMING AUDIO & VIDEO NETWORK‹An umbrella event guide at
website www.themusic.com.au that directs viewers and listeners to video
clips of Australian artists from individual artist sites, music video
program sites and record company sites as well as special Australian music
programming from native online radio channels.
Two other events fall under Australian Music Week Onlineąs umbrella. The
3rd annual AUSTRALIAN ONLINE MUSIC AWARDS (ONYA! Awards) honour innovation
& excellence in the delivery of online music with the Awards held at The
Basement August 4 at 8:30 at www.onya.com.au and via broadband through
www.thebasement.com.au. Plus the 5th NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
CONFERENCE sponsored by Apple Computer takes place August 2, 3 & 4 at the
Sydney Superdome with 65 speakers in 12 panels dealing with music industry
issues, technology and the future with an audience of up to 500.
A DAILY GUIDE TO MUSIC EVENTS, WEBCASTS & ONLINE STREAMING OF MUSIC WILL
BE FOUND AT http://www.themusic.com.au/music STARTING JULY 23.
Australian Music Week On-line Webcasts:
Sunday 29th July - Replays of the following concerts recorded earlier
this year @ 8pm www.thebasement.com.au
Tommy Emmanuel
James Morrison, supported by Emma Pask
Monday 30th July - Replays of the following blues concerts recorded
earlier this year @ 8pm www.thebasement.com.au
Andy Cowan
Chris Wilson
Dom Turner
Tuesday 31st July - Guitar, Guitar @ 9pm (live at The Basement)
A guitar lover's feast - performances by leading Australian guitar players
A programme of mainly contemporary spanish guitar music with performances
by the Peter Dic kson Band Featuring Peter Dickson guitar with Gordon
Rytmeister (drums) Sam Mcnally (keyboards) Jeff Ciampa (percussion) and
Chris Zoulos. Followed by celebrity guitarist Ian Turpie and solo guitar
by Bruce Mathiske. Ian Date & Jim Pennell will entertain the crowd with
their Swing era and Latin American music and will be joined by
sensational young guitarist Jake Meadows. Phil Emmanuel will close the
show with a huge jam session.
Wednesday 1st August - Club Acoustica @8.15pm (live at The Basement)
8.15pm - 8.50pm Dominique Fraissard
9.00pm - 9.35pm Jodi Phillis
9.45pm -10.20pm - Hydro
10.30pm -11.10pm - Diana Ah Naid
11.20pm - 11.55pm - Airbag
Thursday 2nd August - Webcast Jeff Lang @8pm David Bridie @9.30pm
www.thebasement.com.au
Friday 3rd August - Ray Beadle @ 11.30pm (live at The Basement)
Ray returns from his recent US tour where he played with some well
renowned blues artists on Beale Street, Memphis, winning acclaim at the
BB King Bar, The Rum & Boogie and several Southern Blues Festivals, also
squeezing in a CD recording in Alabama with Mark Sallings. Ray will be
playing his new original songs at The Basement, along with his already
strong repetoire of jump-blues and swing.
Saturday 4th August - Live from The Basement, the 3rd annual ONYA! Awards
(Australian Online Music Awards) sponsored by OzEmail Internet and
Microsoft Windows Media Player. For those wanting to hang out before the
90 minute webcast kicks off at 8:30 pm-10 pm, we have the recording of the
Artist Keynote Speech from the National Entertainment Industry Conference
two days prior featuring Iva Davies as the countdown to the ONYA! Awards
begins. Then at 8:30, five great Australian artists including Stella One
Eleven, John Butler, Lazy Susan and Big Heavy Stuff (and a huge mystery
band to end the show at 9:50) give their best performances with an
audience of 400 in the house, guest celebrity presenters and MC Adam
Spencer. For modem access and broadband users--got to
http://www.onya.com.au and for premium broadband users, go to
http://www.thebasement.com.au