19 - 23 MAY 2010

2010 WAMi Festival Gig and Event Guide

Special WAMi Festival tours and partnered events in the lead up…

Friday 7 May
Ampfest: Heat 1 @ Claremont Town Hall with Chasing the Ninth, Danni Stefanetti, Mark Lebcheucher, Goodnight Tiger and The Modern Mystery.
www.ampfest.com.au, 7-10pm, free entry.

		Tuesday 11 May WAMi Festival LOUDER Regional Tour @ Ningaloo Reef Resort, Coral Bay with Boom! Bap! Pow!, Ashleigh Rodier and Dean Murphy. 7-10pm, free entry. Wednesday 12 May WAMi Festival LOUDER Regional Tour @ Grace’s Tavern, Exmouth with Boom! Bap! Pow!, Ashleigh Rodier, KY & The Jellies, Eve Schmidt & Roger Sholdon. 8pm-late, free entry. Friday 14 May WAMi Festival LOUDER Regional Tour @ The Gascoyne Hotel, Carnavon with Boom! Bap! Pow!, Ashleigh Rodier, Ray Edney, Zenith Archoo, Rainer Lissers and more. 8pm- late, free entry

Tuesday 18 May

Music Industry Sundowner

The eve of the WAMi Festival introduces a brand new series of talks aimed at providing professional WA musicians with the information and skills to help forge a lasting career in music. Presented in conjunction with APRA, MEAA and WAM, the first Music Industry Sundowner Series kicks off at the Rosemount Hotel, North Perth 6pm Tue 18 May - WAM Members, RSVP to wam@wam.asn.au by 4pm for FREE ENTRY!

WAMi Festival Takes Off...
Wednesday 19 May
Ellington Jazz Club, Northbridge - 8pm
Grace Woodroofe, $15.

The Moon Café, Northbridge – 8pm
Miranda Pollard, Tracey Read, Georgi Kay
Free entry!

The Paddo, Mount Hawthorn – 8pm
The Spitfires, Tracksuit, Aron’s Crusade & Matt Larsen
Free entry!

Love Is My Velocity Takeaway Tunes Pop-Up Shop, 54 Lake Street.
Wednesday 19 – Sunday 23 May – see www.loveismyvelocity.com for more details.
A pop-up local music shop to promote Perth’s hardworking independent labels. The shop also features the Takeaway Tunes Recording Studio, where we bands record tracks for streaming on the LIMV website and via RTRFM. Recording from 8-9pm tonight is ‘Eleventh He Reaches London’.

Thursday 20 May
2010 WAMi Awards, presented by City of Perth
Capitol, Perth – 7.30pm
The WA music industry’s night of nights, featuring performances from Sugar Army, Will Stoker and the Embers, The Brow Horn Orchestra & Hayley Beth. Hosted by triple j’s ‘The Doctor’ and RTR FM’s Peter Barr.

Tickets $20 + BF from www.moshtix.com.au

		Kiss My Camera 2010: A Photographic Showcase of WA’s Musical Moments The Western Australian Museum – Perth (Perth Cultural Centre), 20 May – 12 July. Check out 48 music photographs by WA photographers. Over 60 000 people visited Kiss My Camera in 2009. Open daily from 9.30-5pm (except Wednesdays). Presented by WAM and The Western Australian Museum, with support from X-Press and Sony Music.

WAM Indigenous Roundtable and Too Solid acoustic performances.
The Bird, Northbridge

Ellington Jazz Club, Northbridge - 8pm
Chelsea Gibson and Juice Extractors, $15.

Love Is My Velocity Takeaway Tunes Pop-Up Shop, 54 Lake Street.
Wednesday 19 – Sunday 23 May – see www.loveismyvelocity.com for more details.
A pop-up local music shop to promote Perth’s hardworking independent labels. The shop also features the Takeaway Tunes Recording Studio, where we bands record tracks for streaming on the LIMV website and via RTRFM. Recording from 6-7pm tonight is The Ghost Hotel & 8-9pm Benedict Moleta Band.

Friday 21 May

		2010 WAMi Music Business Conference, The Empyrean Function Centre Northbridge from 9am. Day 2: Featuring WA Touring Panel, College and Community radio panel, Synchronisation Masterclass, Songwriter Talks, Producer’s Panel, In Conversation with Joel and Stu from Eskimo Joe and more: see the Conference page for more information.

Love Is My Velocity Takeaway Tunes Pop-Up Shop, 54 Lake Street.
Wednesday 19 – Sunday 23 May – see www.loveismyvelocity.com for more details.
A pop-up local music shop to promote Perth’s hardworking independent labels. The shop also features the Takeaway Tunes Recording Studio, where we bands record tracks for streaming on the LIMV website and via RTRFM. Recording tonight from 6-7pm is ‘Schvendes’ and from 8-9pm today is ‘Tomás Ford’.

Civic Hotel, Inglewood – 7.30pm
Two-room bonanza of punk, rock and swamp featuring The Devil Rides Out, Project Mayhem, Cal Peck and the Tramps, The Painkillers, Mongrel Country, Mile End, Cat Black & Bible Bashers
$12 entry

Amplifier Bar, Perth – 8pm
The Morning Night (single launch) with special guests Split Seconds, The Atlas Mountains, Modularman, Ruby Boots, James Teague & Ryan Webb
Tickets $10 + BF from Moshtix / $15 at the door

		Too Solid Compilation CD Launch & Showcase The Charles Hotel, North Perth – 6.30pm A Special Event Featuring Some Of WA’s Finest Indigenous Talent, Including: Lorrae Coffin, Bartlett Brothers, Old Flames Band, Warangka Band, Black Poet, Wayne Barker, John Bennett, With Special Guest Performance By Neil Murray. Tix $20 entry, including copy of the CD!

The Bird, Northbridge – 8pm
The Transients, The Voltaire Twins & Resort
$10 entry

Ellington Jazz Club, Northbridge.
6pm – The Graham Wood Trio
8pm – Bronwynn Sprogowski comeback gig
11.30pm – The Ill Ones – Sean Curtis and Joey Kartel

The Funk Club @ The Leederville Hotel – 8pm
The Brow Horn Orchestra, Naik & Diger Rokwell
$10 entry / Funk Club members $5

Mojos Bar, North Fremantle – 8pm
The Joe Kings, Dilip n the Davs, The Lazy Railway & The China Blue Experiment
$10 entry

Norfolk Basement, Fremantle – 8pm
The Novocaines, The Witness, Black Board Minds & Gilroy and the Cold Shoulders
$12 entry

Railway Hotel, North Fremantle
Diamond Eye, Stellas Kitchen, The Bronze & One Thousand Years
$10 entry

Rocket Room, Northbridge
8pm show
Eleventh He Reaches London, Grim Fandango, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, The Proletariate
$10 entry
Midnight show
Late Night Live featuring Chainsaw Hookers and Raw Nerve
Entry $5

Rosemount Hotel, North Perth – 8pm
The Chemist (EP launch) with special guests Young Revelry, Wolves & Wolves At The Door
$15 entry

Swan Hotel, North Fremantle – 8pm
Two-room show featuring Good Little Fox, The Bullet Holes, Art In Algebra, Laced Affair, Cim Ciaru, Michael Strong and the Ghost Anyway, Control-Control & Dylan Ollivierre and the TNs
Entry $10


Saturday 22 May

		2010 WAMi Music Business Conference, The Empyrean Function Centre Northbridge from 9am. Day 3: Featuring Bill Me Festival pitch and more. See the Conference page for details.

		City of Perth Northbridge Saturday Spectacular Over 50 acts playing throughout Northbridge from 12-6pm – all free entry! The City of Perth Northbridge Saturday Spectacular sets Northbridge abuzz with free gigs from 12noon to 6pm at venues such as the Northbridge Piazza, Mustang Bar, Universal Bar, The Court and more. Over 50 acts playing throughout Northbridge from 12-6pm - all free entry! RTR FM will be broadcasting LIVE from the event Download the WAMi Festival 2010 City of Perth Northbridge Saturday Spectacular GIG GUIDE & MAP PDF

Saturday Spectacular Closing Party!
Amplifier Bar & Capitol – 6pm
The WAMi Festival takes over the Amplifier/Capitol complex to finish off its biggest day with a huge extravaganza headlined by local legends Jebediah. Every ticket comes with a complimentary copy of ‘Kiss My WAMi 2010’, featuring 54 tracks and 26 clips from top WA artists. Supported by Drum and RTRfm.

AMPLFIER BAR COURTYARD
Amanda Merzdan 6.30-6.55pm
Xave Brown 7.25-7.50pm
Goodnight Tiger 8.20-8.45pm
Steve Parkin 9.15-9.40pm
Snowbros 10.10-10.35pm
Tomas Ford 11.05-11.30pm

AMPLIFIER BAR
The Jackards 6.55-7.25pm
Emperors 7.50-8.20pm
Injured Ninja 8.45-9.15pm
Will Stoker and the Embers 9.40-10.10pm
The Scotch Of Saint James 10.35-11.05pm
French Rockets 11.30pm-12am

CAPITOL
Arts Martial 7.30-8pm
Umpire 8.20-8.50pm
Abbe May 9.10-9.50pm
Jebediah 10.10-10.55pm

Every ticket comes with a complimentary copy of ‘Kiss My WAMi 2010’, featuring 54 tracks and 26 clips from top WA artists.
Tickets $22 + BF from www.moshtix.com.au

Love Is My Velocity Takeaway Tunes Pop-Up Shop, 54 Lake Street.
Wednesday 19 – Sunday 23 May – see www.loveismyvelocity.com for more details.
A pop-up local music shop to promote Perth’s hardworking independent labels. The shop also features the Takeaway Tunes Recording Studio, where we bands record tracks for streaming on the LIMV website and via RTRFM. Recording from 3-4 is ‘The Bank Holidays’, from 6-7pm ‘The Tigers’ and from 8-9pm ‘Taco Leg’.

The Vault, Melville – 6-10.30pm UNDER-18s show featuring The Novocaines, The Chemist, The Scotch Of Saint James, Modularman & more Free entry!

Sunday 23 May
Mojos Bar, North Fremantle - WAMi Festival wrap party! – 3-10pm
Schvendes, Harlequin League, Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke, Capital City, Sneaky Weasel Gang, The Floors, Selk and the Bone Singers & King George
$15 entry

Swan Hotel, North Fremantle – 3pm
In keeping with the philosphy of the WAMi’s and showcasing great WA bands, the Swan Hotel and Drum Media are presenting the Best Of Gignition - Second Series this Sunday 23 May featuring Jack Action, The Silent Republic, Gombo, Bulls And Bears and Stunning In Red.

We are also inviting you down before the show kicks off to take part in a panel discussion of local experts who will address everything you wanted to know about marketing and promoting yourself across online and print forums, how best to approach booking agents and venues, how to get support slots, how to service your music to radio and best way to approach labels.

Speaking on the panel will be :
Jules Weston – Acres (books national tours and publicist)
Dan Beard – Spaceship News (comprehensive music website)
Matt Johnston – Walking Horse Records (WA label)
Leigh Treweek – Street Press Australia (director)
and more!
Facilitated by Aarom Wilson, editor of Drum Media Perth

Between this panel there is an answer for pretty much every question you may have, so have a think about where your band is currently at and what you need to know, come down and listen to them speak and ask the questions that will help you get ahead.

This is a FREE PANEL of people who know what they are talking about so make the most of the opportunity. Don’t be afraid to ask questions particular to your band, this is a golden opportunity. Did we mention that The Swan Hotel is also providing free beer during this panel as well? No? Well, the Swan Hotel are providing free beer to band members during this panel.

There is a $5 door charge for the five band show after the panel.

Indi Bar, Scarbourough – 6pm
East coast WAMi Festival artist Sunday session featuring Khancoban (VIC) and The Gonzo Show (QLD)
Free entry!

Foodchain Crustacean Cup: Local Band Soccer Match
Wellington Square, East Perth, 2-4pm
The Crustacean Cup combines the fun of the world game with the sometimes laughable physical capabilities of local musicians during an hour-long match. See the info available on the WAM website.

Love Is My Velocity Takeaway Tunes Pop-Up Shop, 54 Lake Street.
Wednesday 19 – Sunday 23 May – see www.loveismyvelocity.com for more details.
A pop-up local music shop to promote Perth’s hardworking independent labels. The shop also features the Takeaway Tunes Recording Studio, where we bands record tracks for streaming on the LIMV website and via RTRFM. Recording from 3-4 is Jane Harris’, from 6-7pm ‘Owls’ and from 8-9pm ‘Hayley Beth’.

		Music Industry Reunion Night, presented by the Music Industry Reunion Club. Charles Hotel, North Perth. 5pm - $10 donation. Featuring the WAM Hall of Fame induction, Neptunes, Rookies, members of Allegiance, Company of Men and Perth Blues Club All Stars. Proceeds to Support Act.

Monday 24 March
Charles Hotel, North Perth – 8pm
The Perth Jazz Society presents the Helen Matthews & Ray Walker CD launch with special guests Jessica Gethin, Karl Florrison, Sophie Walker, Garry Howard and Ali Bodycoat
$15 entry / $10 PJS members / $5 student members

Tuesday 25 March
Charles Hotel, North Perth – 8pm
The Perth Blues Club presents Howie Morgan, John Meyer Band & Gary Cox Band
$15 entry / $10 PBC members

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