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Having struggled since adolescence with abuse and mental illness, songwriting has always been an outlet for Title to create meaning out of feelings of suffering. Her upcoming debut EP ‘Green’ is a minimalist acoustic project, using a lyrical style and sparse but powerful vocals to convey the blend of vulnerability, grief, compassion and hope that make up the recurring themes of the work. Inspired by a diverse array of genres and artists such as Adrienne Lenker, Fiona Apple, Stevie Nicks, Rose Cousins, Sarah Harmer and Courtney Love – Title is a fierce political activist whose music a depth that is INCREDIBLE.

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Australia’s peak body for Artist managers, the AAM, has proudly  launched the inaugural GROW Program, thanks to support from the Victorian Government Music Recovery fund, through Creative Victoria.

Grow is a 3 month virtual pilot  program designed to support and empower womxn of all ages who are Artist Managers running their own business in Victoria.

The program consists of peer-to-peer mentoring with leaders in the fields of law, business and mental health and wellness and unique group webinars focused on business acumen. Participants will be supported to build new business plans, become more financially literate and build confidence in their leadership skills while also receiving a bursary to support their work. Grow has been designed using a broad range of research including  the AAM’s membership survey results from 2020 which found that women in this sector still experience gender inequality.

The 2020 AAM members survey found retention and longevity for female managers decreases after age 35, APRA/AMCOS ‘Australian Women, Screen, Composers Career Barriers and Pathways’ 2017 research paper found that just 21.7% of their members are songwriters. ABC by the numbers 2020 showed that  womxn musicians make up 24% of radio air-play. Music Victoria found barriers for women in the music industry to be lack of paid work opportunities, the casualisation of the work-force and the confidence gap. GROW aims to continue the progression of gender equity in Artist management through building business acumen, confidence  and capacity.

Running in tandem with this will be a special Victorian edition of the Co-Pilot program. Co-Pilot is an annual national mentor program that is a core professional development activity of the AAM. The mentorship is open to all levels of Artist Managers. To ensure a robust and healthy Victorian Artist management community in the future, managers  need to be supported to re-model, re-build and re-tool to have a sustainable and successful future.

The Victorian music industry is arguably the state hardest hit by the pandemic, with stage 4 lockdown in place for most of the year.  Both GROW and  Co-Pilot (Victorian Edition) deliver tailored professional development for those who need it most. All participants will receive generous bursaries to continue their work beyond the program and encourage them to continue to make  community connections.  Both programs will also give participants access to years of industry know-how through working with the most established Australian Artist Managers.

Grow and Victorian Co – pilot are accessible to Victorian AAM members for specific eligibility details please click the links below.

To apply for Grow, click here
To apply for Co-Pilot, click here

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Today, Melbourne ska punk band The Resignators drop their new single Bluebird Tattoo. The song tells the story of Melbourne’s most unique music and fashion movement of the 1970’s, the Sharpies.

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The Sharpies were a multicultural group of “pre-punks” (localised to Australia and primarily Melbourne) that embraced a very specific style of fashion, haircut and dancing. They heralded the beginning of Aussie Pub Rock, and despite negative press due to their tendency to rumble between rival Sharpie gangs, they lasted over a decade and contributed to the rise of careers of AC/DC, Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.

One of the most common icons for the Sharpies was a bluebird tattoo, the song tells the story of how many years later, two Sharpie lovers remember each other fondly every time the see their bluebird tattoos. When they danced they could make it fly!

Bluebird Tattoo sees The Resignators at the peak of their form combining ska punk with rock on what is without doubt one of the bands finest songs to date. Blistering guitars, thumping bass, melodious keyboards, driving drums, a military like horn section capped off with one the most anthemic choruses from a ska punk band you’ll hear this year.

Bluebird Tattoo is a more balanced blending of ska punk and rock without becoming too much of one or the other. The Resignators’ take on ska is heavy and they tend toward raucous rock with something of a ska twist, but most of all they make you dance!

Melbourne punk-rock band, Picket Palace, are back with their tongue-in-cheek single, ‘All About The Money’ via Daily Nightly Records.

‘All About The Money’ plays with the idea of the band becoming soulless, corporate sell-outs after being criticised online for the mainstream media attention they received when their tribute to Essendon footy player ‘Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti’ went viral.

“I reckon it’s fucking funny as that people were calling us “sell outs” on social media…like, dude I’d love to sell out, rent’s fucked where I live, I’ll write you whatever song you want for a new oven,” jokes frontman Seamus.

“We thought it was hilarious to imagine a version of ourselves who had been so excited about getting our stupid faces on the stupid telly that we would suddenly throw away all our integrity and sell off our creative freedom to become celebrities and make ridiculous demands about jetskis. That was what made us laugh the most when we were throwing ideas around, the idea of a band who are desperate to sell out but no one’s buying,” explains Jack from the group.

All jokes aside, the band also makes a poignant statement that only the privileged can pursue a career in the arts, because “the poor can’t afford to work for free.”

 “The disdain our government shows for art and artists is disgracefully narrowminded, and the impact on our friends in the industry is only getting worse in the COVID era, so it’s important that we get to put this track out there as a ‘fuck you’ to the people who decided the Arts ministry mattered so little that it should be consumed by the department of fucking transport,” Jack continues.

‘All About The Money’ is a welcome return for Picket Palace and a thematic piece of dolewave that will leave you smiling & questioning the entertainment industry all at once.

The track follows on from Picket Palace’s triple j supported single ‘No Fun Intended’, continuing to forge a signature sound for the band outside of the virality they received for their half a million times viewed video for ‘Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti’ and the aptly titled follow up, ‘The Footy Record’.

Notable performances include a slot on the main stage of the sold out Beyond The Valley festival over new years, alongside a sold out headline show at Northcote Social Club. Their live show is an exuberant, exhilarating trip that is somehow both ferociously energetic and sincerely heartwarming — an adorable riot.

With an energy like no other, the band continues their assent into national consciousness as leaders of the new school.

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Birthed and nurtured in a sweaty loft apartment above a picket fence workshop in Brunswick, Picket Palace crank out razor-sharp punk belters and anxious, rambling reflections with an enthusiasm that is innocent, unpretentious and completely infectious. Urgent, punchy rhythms underpin distinctive, angular guitar lines and lyrics so honest and guileless that you’ll feel like the band have set your own half drunken conversations to music.

Taking their name from the sharehouse apartment that brought the band together, Picket Palace consists of lead vocalist Seamus O’Connell, his brother Jack on guitar and vocals, Jack’s housemates Gus George on guitar and Julian Angelatos on drums, and their next-door neighbour Daniel Heeps on Bass.

PRAISE FOR PICKET PALACE:

“it’s a great brand of scraggly, raucous pub rock that would even get the seniors drinking tooheys old off their stool for a little mosh” – Declan Byrne, triple j

“laugh-and-cry-at-the-same-time kinda punk” – Pile Rats

“every song is charming, genuine and covered in an endearing sense of irresponsibility – making Picket Palace the kind of band you’d love to see rip up a stage on a Friday night then eavesdrop on afterwards in the beer garden.” – Trouble Juice

“Picket Palace is a breath of fresh air” – Keep Walking Music

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