2012 : Incoming
Seriously excited about working with these artists this year.
YesYou
Jagwar Ma
Lana Del Rey
Laneway Festival 2012
2011 Wrap
Whoa, what a year for Bossy Music. Gotye dominated everything everywhere; Art vs Science rounded out a dream three years by winning an ARIA; and we started working with rising stars Lana Del Rey, YesYou and Jagwar Ma.
Very exciting week here at Bossy Music HQ. Art vs Science have been killing it on The Experiment album tour. We saw the sold-out Forum show and boy, did they show Melbourne what time it is. Also, thank god for insurance:
Looking forward to the shows at The Enmore and The Tivoli this weekend too.
Our man Wally de Backer aka Gotye has not only romped it in to triple j’s Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, reaching a very impressive #11 for his 1996 longplayer Like Drawing Blood. Great timing, because he has just ‘dropped’ (not literally) the next single from his new album Making Mirrors (out 19 August via Eleven). You can have a look at the pretty great video for ‘Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)’ here:
Kimbra: best profile in the biz?
Finally, new Bossy management signings YesYou, whose track ‘Half Of It’ is still bothering triple j’s Top 20 most played six weeks after release, have put up a classy new remix by fellow Brisbanites (Brisbanians?) Mitzi. Here ‘tis:
YesYou, yes! New Bossy signing.
Will you look at these guys?
They are YesYou, a production duo from Brisbane and latest Bossy Music management signing. Australian national broadcaster triple j is already flogging their first single, Half Of It, and so they should. Listen for yourself here:
Half Of It by YesYou
Heaps Decent are heaps decent.
We are very proud to work with our favourite charity Heaps Decent, the brainchild of our friends Levins, Nina Las Vegas and Charlie ‘Chux’ O’Brien and world-respected party machine, Diplo. It’s an initiative to give a leg up to underprivileged indigenous kids and emerging artists by providing music-making resources and opportunities.
Check out more of what they do via their guest blog on the Home & Hosed section of triple j website.
Marcus Teague by Single Twin
Our friend SINGLE TWIN has just released a convincing new LP called MARCUS TEAGUE, which you can hear over here. It is an intimate, innately gorgeous record and made for early hours. Frankie readers would probably bake scones to it on a winter’s afternoon or something.
Our enjoyment of the album is augmented by the fact that SINGLE TWIN is in fact fronted by an actual person called MARCUS TEAGUE and MARCUS TEAGUE is/was also the name of a character on Neighbours. This is not a coincidence, the guy actually met a writer from the show once.
Anyway, he/they are playing a couple of shows this weekend in Sydney and Canberra. The Sydney show is with the the equally/supremely talented Charge Group. Details here. Go!
We’re a bit in love with the new Art vs Science clip by Spod.
Come to this!
We are putting on a party at SXSW in conjunction with our friends at Windish Agency and Eat Your Own Ears. Come on down.
QANTAS WTF.
There is a bit of furore within the Australian music industry over Qantas’ new baggage policy, the contents and disadvantages of which are fairly succinctly articulated here.
I’ve never been afraid to write a letter of complaint (Hi Sydney Uni! Hi Woolworths! Hi Mum!) so today I am sending this letter to Qantas via here. I’m ccing in Simon Crean, the Federal Minister for The Arts.
Dear Qantas
I manage a three piece Sydney band who are currently enjoying popularity thanks to their relentless touring across the country for the past two years.
I have been made aware of the new changes to Qantas’ luggage policy, in particular, the restriction on the number of checked items and the new regulation stating that musical instruments are allowed onboard only at the discretion of the airline.
The band tour the country regularly and Qantas is our preferred airline. We regularly attract excess baggage fees, as you would expect. However all three members of the band and myself joined Qantas Club very recently in order to mitigate some of those fees with no warning that the regulations concerning baggage were about to change. By my calculation, this means that our excess baggage costs will be almost triple what they were prior to us joining Qantas Club.
I find it fairly hypocritical that Qantas purports to support music via the Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards when the company then proceeds to make it as difficult as possible for Australian artists.
I note that there are exceptions that relate to sporting equipment and struggle to see why musical equipment should not fall within that category of exceptions but I look forward to hearing from you on this matter.
Yours faithfully, etc.
If this affects you, it would be great if you could write something in a similar vein. SPEAK PEOPLE.
