The Scene It’s More Than Just Music Issue One October 07 Long Live Local Music SeptemberContents 07 SeptemberEditori a07l y o i R t n a h o: S t Hey Guys, o h s P Welcome to the first issue of The Scene r o r magazine. A magazine dedicated to the Local r o music scene on the South Coast, from Nowra to e H Sydney and everywhere in between. And here at the scene we know that there is more to music n; ! than just bands. This magazine is about everyone wa involved in the atmosphere of the local scene. ad s From drummers to photographers. b s B i b i r So I bet you’re thinking, another music magazine a l G : F huh. Big deal, why do we need another one? But e er v M have you seen the kind of talent we have in this o o: t C area? There are people out there that push the o h boundaries of the musical form and aren’t getting p the kind of recognition they deserve. We’re here to change that. This magazine is dedicated to you. The local artist, or producer, photographer or fan slogging News 4 Contents it out on the stage or in the studio or on the dance Wondering what’s happening in your local scene? floor, listening to, dancing to and loving the local music scene. Local Produce 6 This magazine isn’t about the artists on the Local Producer Jesse Fisher talks about his passion pedestal who you are only able to look at on glossy pages or in their videos. This is about the guys you Give Me A Shot To Remember 9 went to school with, the people you hang out with Rock Photographer Shanti Roy gets Lost through the Lens on a Saturday night, the kid you see hanging out in the CD shops, with the stretchys and the snake So You wanna Be Rock Superstar? 12 bites. Cause we’re all part of the same fight. What you can do to make that elusive big break So this is your magazine, read the pages, raise it high, but more importantly go to local gigs, buy AA 14 local EP’s, record locally. There is so much talent Your All Ages pass to the big show on the South Coast that there is noway these pages can cover it all. But it’s a start. Stealing O’Neal 15 Visiting band loves hugs... Long live local music. Style 16 Its the clothes that make the man, so they say... Afterwake 17 Local band on the rise Keely K Keely Kovacevic Reviews 18 Editor Telling you what we really think y o Voxs Rocks 20 R i t What do you think of the local music scene? n a h S o: o: t 2 The Scene o The Scene 3 h p SeptemberNews 07 SeptemberNews 07 es k i r t n S o s a e esy R t ur o co t o h p P r Foremi Unsignedere Aw Bandards the State Finals espite technical difficulties, Sydney and Western Sydney as well Vines didn’t get past state when they ntries for the MusicOz response. local punk band Reason as winners of the regional TAFE went after the prize. Awards have closed for Wollongong locals including the D Strikes took out the competition, determined the bands E2007. With over 1000 bands Watt Riot, Crash tragic and Inanimate RegionalS Band trComp on Thursdayike for the state Finals. entered, it promises to be even bigger Objects are all in the running this the 20th September at Wollongong To be held at Sydney Uni on the than last year. year, hoping to take out a major prize Uni Bar. They now move on to the 4th Oct, the state finals play host to The countries most prestigious in their fields. The public can vote State finals. some of the best unsigned bands in awards for unsigned artists will be for their favourite artists over the Three broken strings, sound the country. judged from a new location this year. MusicOz website. problems and the vocalist vomiting The Wollongong four piece, Originally based in Wollongong, Ranging from Pop and Rock on himself, wasn’t enough to Reason Strikes, will be in the 2007 sees it’s relocation to Sydney. to Christian and blues, there is a discourage the judges from letting the company of The Ends from Charles The first round of judging, where category to suit everybody’s taste. popular band through. Sturt, Wagga Wagga, and Mild Ryan, the top ten artists of each category Previous winners of MusicOz Playing first also caused no University of Western Sydney. They will be announced, takes place on the awards include Blue King Brown, problem, even though the bands will also be joined by the 2 winners 22nd of October. Final judging and the The Fumes, Blue Juice and last years Three broken strings, sound problems and the vocalist vomiting Ranging from Pop and Rock to Christian and blues, on himself, wasn’t enough to discourage the judges there is a category to suit everybody’s taste usual high-energy crowd was less of the North regional final, which televised Enmore showcase rock winner Solver. enthusiastic. was held at Newcastle University’s will then be held on the 22nd of Public ticket sales for the Enmore In their 20 minute set, Reason Bar On The Hill on the 18th November. Musicoz awards go on sale through Strikes played their popular song September. With prizes including recording ticketek in October. “Revolution” as well as crowd The winner of this heat will then time in Sydney’s prestigious 301 favourite “Sinking Ship,” which move on to the national final to be studios, photo shoot with rock appears on their debut EP ‘The Art held in Melbourne later this year. photographer Tony Mott, $25,000 Of Chaos.’ Past winners of the tittle include Myspace.com/reasonstrikespunk advertising package and air-play on The Regional finals, which Eskimo Joe, Jebedia and the Vasco NOVA radio stations, it’s no wonder included bands from Wagga Wagga, Era. But not to be disheartened, The this year has achieved such a high 4 The Scene The Scene 5 SeptemberProducer 07 SeptemberProducer 07 hen Jesse Fisher was between pop and rock with almost 17, his dad recorded an endless enthusiasm. Walbum at Main Street Since they started in 2005 they Studios. Playing rhythm guitar to his have supported big acts such as father’s original songs, he saw the Gyroscope, Karnivool, Something production process for the first time. With Numbers and most recently Five years on, Fisher has his own Switchfoot at the Big Exo Day at production company and backyard Sydney Showgrounds. studio -helping local bands make that But Fisher, guitarist and vocalist elusive big break. with Afterwake, says he would prefer Big Fish Studios, a joint venture to be on the other side of the mic Local with his father, started as a pipe dream. “About two years ago I About two started ranting on about building this studio, thinking it could never years ago I started happen, and then one day, dad just said, ‘When do we start?’,” Fisher ranting on about says. building this studio... Born in Wollongong, Fisher’s love of music started at an early age. one day, When he was seven, his dad bought him his first guitar, a travel size Dad just said, ‘When Ibanez acoustic that he would play do we start?’ for hours. Fisher’s penchant for music was encouraged by his father, aka Big check. “If it came down to it, I’d Fish (the studio is named after him), rather be a producer. That would also a guitarist. just be the best job in the world. But “Dad doesn’t really know anything I’d love to do both, playing with the Produce boys in the band on the side.” Fact: Cd’s Dont about production, all the technical stuff. But he’s a really good guitarist, When Fisher talks about make themselves. and he taught me everything I production, his eyes light up and it’s know about that. As far as the other hard to understand his words because stuff goes, his support was more he won’t sit still or stop smiling. The Scene talks to financial,” Fisher says. “It’s really creative. You’ve got Picked up from countless hours a soundstage and you’ve got to put young Wollongong playing with his production software the instruments in the right spots. ProTools, Fisher’s technical skills You can try a million different things producer Jesse didn’t develop overnight. and add your own flair to it as a “I probably recorded my sister producer,” Fisher says. Fisher about his about a dozen times, myself closer “There’s endless tones and sounds to a hundred, people from church, that you’re able to get, I’ll try to copy studio, his band my friends, anyone that walked into sometimes. I usually get a CD that I and the coastal my room. I was just experimenting like and compare mine to it and keep with everything that I could. Slowly comparing it and try to get a similar town he loves. I started noticing I could actually sound to it,” he adds. do this, and that’s when dad and Other than the two demos he has I started drawing up ideas for the produced for Afterwake, he has studio,” he says.