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Her Song Official Video - The Medics

Qsong Awards

Congrats to Fushia, Steve Grady and The Medics on being nominated for Qsong Awards this year. Also former artists Ellington are up for a Qsong gong as well. Best of luck to you all. Visit www.qsong.com.au

The Medics Finalists in International Songwriting Comp

Starving Kids latest signing, The Medics, have made the final of the Rock category in this years International Songwriting Competition with their song Joseph. This is no mean feat considering other finalists in the category include The Living End, Children Collide, Eskimo Joe and The Basics. Tom Waits, Robert Smith (The Cure), Jeff Beck and Robbie Williams are a few of the judges in this competition. If you'd like to help them win the people's choice award you can click this link (I know the guys would appreciate it) INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION

The Medics Interviewed by SBS Alchemy Music

Cairns lads The Medics were interviewed recently on Alchemy Music, an arm of SBS. You can listen here...

 

Have You Heard Volume #6 Released

The latest in the Have You Heard sampler series, number six, has just landed, all shiny shrink wrapped, at our office. Want one? Email us at info@starvingkids.org.au and we'll tell you how you can score yourself a copy. 18 tracks including The Medics, Steve Grady, Finabah, Fushia, Soars, Andrew Swift and many more....sweet ones!

The Medics Release This Boat We Call Love

We always get excited at SK when we release a new record. Cairns based indie-rockers, The Medics, are our latest signing and we're more than pleased to let you all know that their new EP "This Boat We Call Love" is available right now. Only physical copies are available at the moment and considering the fantastic artwork by Glenn Saggers that's the only way you'd want to purchase it anyhow. You can get a copy at a Medics gig or right here at the web site. Digital copies will be available soon from the usual providers.

New Starving Kids Hoodies in stock now!

Warm, fleecy, zip-up, Gildan hoodies that will keep you warm and make you immediately more popular with the cool kids. Buy one now!

Music Industry College to Launch in 2010
School Of Rock Launching In Brisvegas - Rave Magazine - Tuesday, 07 July 2009

Brisbane is getting its own school of rock.  From next year, the new Music Industry College in Fortitude Valley will be open to Year 11 and 12 students keen to launch a career in the music business. The college’s aim, says principal Brett Wood, is to support those who want to get into the biz “but can’t get the specialised knowledge and support through the traditional school system.”

Each class will be capped at 15. Students who complete Years 11 and 12 will not only be eligible for a Queensland Certificate of Education, but also an OP and the Certificate II (Music Industry) training qualification. Wood has been running a range of youth-targeted music industry projects through his Starving Kids record label and training initiative. Apply to the college by Sep 19.

For more info, email info@starvingkids.org.au

The Music Industry Is Dead - Long Live The Music Industry
The music industry as we have known it is most likely dead. But with the array of online tools that are available to all artists with a computer and a sense of imagination the new music industry is not only very much alive and kicking - it's the artist who now has control.

Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, Last.fm and a myriad of others have given the artist the opportunity to connect with a global fan base. If the artists are clever, creative and original they can give their fans real value for money and reap the rewards accordingly.

If you want an example click the pic of Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) who made $19 000 through Twitter in 10 hours compared with $0 from 30 000 album sales through a major label release. Amazing!



Now, Amanda Palmer had a profile and large fan base before she could do any of this, and we're not suggesting you can earn $19 000 in 10 hours through Twitter if you have a fan base of 150 but this should inspire you to think differently. Be creative. Think big. Get started now.


SK welcomes a new member to the team
At SK we’re always looking for ways to help out as many artists we can in as many ways as we can and I’d like to introduce a new service that we are offering.

We’ve just engaged the services of Sophie Benjamin to service your PR needs. Sophie is a journalism student, a presenter on 4ZZZ, a contributor on the Who The Hell Are They blog (www.whothehell.net), a prolific twitterer, and a muso to boot. Sophie, through SK, will look after your press releases, email newsletters and biographies as well as giving you tips on how to draw the right kind of attention through your online tools (myspace, twitter, facebook, websites etc.)

Because we know that most artists are not too flush with cash SK is subsidising this service and we are offering it to artists for only $15/week. If this is a service you would like to plug in to then email info@starvingkids.org.au