1 BLEACHED ACADEMY Lucas Heights Community School featuring Hayley Warner on vocals YouthRock 2017 Wed 5th April – Sun 9th April @ Sutherland Entertainment Centre Over $10,000 worth of prizes will be on offer this year. YouthRock is now the premier event in New South Wales for teenage contemporary bands and songwriters. It is a joint operation between Belmore Boys High School, Youth Week and YouthRock. YouthRock is the focus event for New South Wales Youth Week. 2017, like 2016, will see ALL finalists receive recording studio time. It is about encouraging young people to express themselves through music by writing and performing original material only It also involves young people at every level of the production from organisation to sound, lighting and filming. Presented by Belmore Boys High School Burwood Rd Belmore 2192 Tel: (02) 9758 2800 Fax: (02) 9740 5834 2 STOLEN MEMORIES Northlakes High School YouthRock @ The Easter Show Date Time Band School Thursday, April 01 4:00pm – 4:30pm Picture Perfect Blaxland High Friday, April 02 12:30pm – 1:00pm Cota Kotara High 5.45pm - 6.00pm From Her Breath Kilarney Heights High Saturday, April 03 12:30pm – 1:00pm Stolen Memories Northlakes High 5.45pm - 6.00pm Picture Perfect Blaxland High e Sunday, April 04 12:30pm – 1:00pm Altitude Dubbo Senior College 5.45pm - 6.00pm Altitude Dubbo Senior College Monday, April 05 12:30pm – 1:00pm The Polaroid People Kiama High 5.45pm - 6.00pm From Her Breath Kilarney Heights High Tuesday, April 06 4:00pm – 4:30pm Mind Priorities BWSC - Woy Woy Wednesday, April 07 4:00pm – 4:30pm Powerage Maitland High Thursday, April 08 4:00pm – 4:30pm No Performance No Performance Amphitheatr Friday, April 09 4:00pm – 4:30pm Breaking Contrast GLC - Tuncurry Senior Saturday, April 10 4:00pm – 4:30pm No Performance No Performance Sunday, April 11 4:00pm – 4:30pm No Performance No Performance Monday, April 12 4:00pm – 4:30pm The Lincolns Deniliquin High Tuesday, April 13 4:00pm – 4:30pm Sayd Toormina high Wednesday, April 14 4:00pm – 4:30pm Sleep Intense Winmalee High Thursday, April 01 3:00pm – 3:40pm No Performance No Performance Friday, April 02 3:00pm – 3:40pm From Her Breath Kilarney Heights High Saturday, April 03 3:00pm – 3:40pm Stolen Memories Northlakes High Sunday, April 04 3:00pm – 3:40pm Altitude Dubbo Senior College Monday, April 05 3:00pm – 3:40pm The Polaroid People Kiama High Tuesday, April 06 3:00pm – 3:40pm Mind Priorities BWSC - Woy Woy Wednesday, April 07 3:00pm – 3:40pm Powerage Maitland High Thursday, April 08 3:00pm – 3:40pm Ricky Bloomfield Bega High Friday, April 09 3:00pm – 3:40pm Breaking Contrast GLC - Tuncurry Senior Saturday, April 10 3:00pm – 3:40pm Ricky Bloomfield Bega High Graze Stage Graze Sunday, April 11 3:00pm – 3:40pm Ricky Bloomfield Bega High Monday, April 12 3:00pm – 3:40pm The Lincolns Deniliquin High Tuesday, April 13 3:00pm – 3:40pm Sayd Toormina high Wednesday, April 14 3:00pm – 3:40pm Sleep Intense Winmalee High Presented by Belmore Boys High School Burwood Rd Belmore 2192 Tel: (02) 9758 2800 Fax: (02) 9740 5834 3 Background Belmore Boys High School Audio Engineering staff and students are responsible for the audio and lighting production, in conjunction with a team of highly experienced production crew whose credits include InXs, David Bowie, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Screaming Jets, Mental As Anything and Midnight Oil. Other students involved in this aspect have been drawn from Wiley Park Girls High, Kirrawee High, Woolooware High, Turramurra High, Gunedah High, Merriwa Central, Hunter River High, Lucas Heights Community School, The Jannali High while additional staff are from Robert Townson High, Punchbowl Boys High, Lurnea High, Camden High and Picnic Point High. The event which is grass roots in nature is seen as the most significant and credible event of its kind by both the Music Industry and participants alike. Judges are drawn from major record companies and music publishers, prominent booking agents and promoters, as well as successful artists. Approximately 100 video entries are received annually, which are culled to between 32 & 40 bands by an experienced review panel, and these bands then have the opportunity to perform live before prominent and influential music industry personnel and compete for in excess of $10,000 worth of prizes . From 1994 to 2015 silverchair donated $1000 cash for the best original song award. The now famous Australian group ‘silverchair’ was a past YouthRock winner and YouthRock continues to identify and promote emerging amateur rock bands. Other artists include Alex Lloyd (ex Balmain High), Quirk (Moruya High) who toured as support to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Sony Stevan (Belmore Boys High) who played lead guitar for Enrique Iglesias on his recent world tour and Hayley Warner (currently managed by April Lavignes Management) who song writing abilities have come to the fore, penning half the songs on the latest Tina Arena Album and nominated for both Aria(Taylor Henderson, Reece Mastin) and Grammy Awards(Tori Kelly - "Hollow"). Morgan Evans winner of both Tamworth Golden Guitar Awards and US Awards such as "CMA Global Music Award", host of Foxtel's Country Music Channel and supporting such artists as Taylor Swift and Alan Jackson. The event began in 1988 as a joint venture between Belmore Boys High, Canterbury City Council, Police Blue Light Disco and YouthRock. Originally a local band competition with 8 competitors from Canterbury it gradually grew into a statewide event. Over the years it has been staged at Campsie Orion Centre, Seymour Centre, Sutherland Entertainment Centre and Bankstown Entertainment Centre. Other performance opportunities have included The Royal Easter Show, Darling Harbour, Australia's Wonderland, Telstra Stadium, NRL Semi-Finals and the Big Day Out at the Homebush Stadium. BLEACHED ACADEMY NO IDEA Lithgow High School Lucas Heights School Presented by Belmore Boys High School Burwood Rd Belmore 2192 Tel: (02) 9758 2800 Fax: (02) 9740 5834 4 LUNATIC FRINGE -Forbes High School Past News Short Stack who got through to the finals in 2006 representing Hunter School of the Performing Arts are having quite a deal of success, moving from supporting the likes of Simple Plan and The Veronicas to headlining their own shows at the Metro and The Sydney Entertainment Centre Their debut album reached Number 1 on the ARIA charts in 2009. Recent News BenJaLu (Whitebridge High) - YouthRock 2006 winners, have just come off an extensive tour of Germany and now are on tour with one of the biggest independent bands in the world "Dispatch". http://www.benjalu.com.au/ More Recent News 2015 sees the return of last year's YouthRock winners "The Syndicators" (St Pauls Kempsey) as guest performers at the Grand Final. Over 2014 - 2015 Jason, Jane, Claire, Simon have performed with the likes of Phil Emmanuel, Joe Robinson (Australian guitarist now based out the US), Uncle Jed, Shinobi (featuring Eric Groethe Jnr for the NRL aficionados - more likely seen on the Footy Show with Beau - and prior to that, yes in YouthRock during the 90's with his band Wench who appear on the first YouthRock CD). FIREHOU SE -Randwick Boys High School Even More News Again Third place getter Firehouse a steaming blues band with obvious Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cream influences features Rick Grossman's son on guitar (legendary bass player from The Hoodoo Gurus, Divinyls and Matt Finish). Rick also got involved in the recent recording done by Powerage at Damien Gerards Studios. Presented by Belmore Boys High School Burwood Rd Belmore 2192 Tel: (02) 9758 2800 Fax: (02) 9740 5834 5 POWERAGE - Hunter School of the Even More News Encouragement Award Winner Powerage Performing Arts - from Newcastle supported Matchbox 20 in 2009 and even more recently went to England representing Australia in an International Band Competition. The result - they came second. On their return the band has had songs featured both on Triple M and Rage. Recent News Morgan Evans, front man for former YouthRock winners “Extortion” (Warners Bay High), this year became a presenter for Foxtel's Country Music Channel. Adding to his collection of awards, Morgan is now the recipient of the international award, the CMA Global Music Award. Other milestones include performing in front of over 50,000 people at the world's largest country music festival, the Country Music Association Music Festival at Nashville. To add to this, in the last year he was signed to the world's largest talent agency William Morris Endeavour and scored a #1 hit single and video from his latest album. Locally Morgan has just headlined at the Snowy Mountains Country Music Festival alongside Adam Brand, The McClyonts, Sunny Cowgirls and Catherine Britt. http://morganevans.com.au And even more recently Morgan announced as part of the massive lineup for CMC Rocks Qld 2016 in March featuring Jason Aldean, one of the biggest superstar acts in American music Again More Recent News Hayley Warner, lead singer of the 2008 Winners “Bleached Academy” (Lucas Heights Community School) and runner up in the last Australian Idol series. At last year's ARIA Awards, Hayley was in the running for several awards having written hit songs for Taylor Henderson and Reece Mastin. Also half the songs on the new Tina Arena album were also Hayley Warner songs. And if you weren't aware she is now managed by April Lavigne's Management. Also her new single "Closure" has just been released. Presented by Belmore Boys High School Burwood Rd Belmore 2192 Tel: (02) 9758 2800 Fax: (02) 9740 5834 6 PARABOWLA Kempsey High School Past News First placed band 2008 Bleached Academy lead singer comes second in Australian Idol 2009 and plays to an audience of in excess of 20,000 on the steps of Parliament House Canberra on Australia Day 2010.