Sound Advice: Making It, Your Way (Newcastle)

Join us for a day dedicated to exploring success in the music industry.

Success has no handbook or timeline. Everyone’s definition of success is different, and so is each person’s journey. Keen to find out what success looks like for you and your music career?

Start with What is Your Key to Success? Panel & Q&A hosted by Matt Field to hear from real-life, music success stories Daniel Radburn (Rad Music), Adam Ridgway, (dust), Ange Burke (Goon Gremlins), artist Annie Hamilton and Joab Eastley (RAAVE TAPES) as they dive into their own ideas of success and how they’ve been able to set goals in the music industry.

Then, choose workshops to attend led by our panellists:

• Success is: Protecting & Enjoying Yourself - self-preservation, creative fulfillment and how to ensure your art maintains authenticity

• Success is: Centring Community - building up and investing in your community and finding opportunities best suited to your values

• Success is: Establishing your Business - the role of an artist and artist manager, how to make this collaboration work successfully and how to start your own music business

• Success is: Telling Your Story - the tools necessary to finding your artist identity, and how to share it through different lanes of storytelling
  

About the speakers:

• Daniel Radburn is an artist manager and founder of Wollongong-based, independent Australian artist management and event company Rad Music (Hockey Dad, Armlock, dust, The Belair Lip Bombs, Crocodylus).

• Adam Ridgway is a musician, band manager, creative organiser and the founding member of the Newcastle band, dust.

• Annie Hamilton is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer, who alongside her own musical and fashion projects, performs in Jack River and freelances as an illustrator, graphic and fashion designer.

• Ange Burke is a musician with a background in advocacy and a passion for building community (Goon Gremlins, Noise Cave Collective).

• Joab Eastley fronts RAAVE TAPES and has played alongside artists like The Presets and at festivals like Laneway Festival, as well as being one of the driving forces behind the No-Fi Collective.

• Matt Field (host) is a venue manager, broadcaster and event producer (Live With The Pines Micro-Music Festival), and above all else, is a champion of live music.
  

What to expect:

• 9am - 9:30am: Arrival + Tibetan dumplings

• 9:30 - 10:45am: What is Your Key to Success? Panel & Q&A

• 11:00am - 12:30pm: Workshop Sessions Part One / Attend Success Is: Centring Community OR Success Is: Protecting & Enjoying Yourself

• 12:30pm - 1:00pm: Lunch + Tibetan dumplings

• 1:00pm - 2:30pm: Workshop Sessions Part Two / Attend Success Is: Establishing Your Business OR Success Is: Telling Your Story

• 2:30pm - 3:30pm: Networking session with drinks around a fire

WORKSHOP SESSIONS PART ONE: 11am - 12:30pm
Success Is: Centring Community

Ange Burke (Goon Gremlins) will cover everything from community building, to establishing a safe space and aligning your work with your values. In this workshop, Burke will speak on how to engage with your community in order to uplift others, create change, and nurture and strengthen grassroots, underground scenes.

Success Is: Protecting & Enjoying Yourself

This workshop of the day will dial in on the importance of remaining authentic in your art and creating for personal fulfilment. RAAVE TAPES frontman Joab Eastley will talk through the significance of self-preservation as an artist, and how to ensure the purpose of your creation is fueled solely by your own happiness and satisfaction.

WORKSHOP SESSIONS PART TWO: 1pm - 2:30pm
Success Is: Establishing Your Business

Adam Ridgway (dust) and Daniel Radburn (Rad Music, which manages dust) will share the band's journey prominent Newcastle music mainstays to opening for the likes of Bloc Party and playing abroad, including strategies used to build the band up, and the critical decisions they made in order to be where they are today. Radburn will also offer insights into how to build a sustainable career as an artist manager.

Success Is: Telling Your Story

Singer-songwriter, visual artist and designer Annie Hamilton will plunge into the importance of meaning and how to unlock who you are as an artist through storytelling. From finding your own story and brand, to telling your story through PR and promotion, Hamilton will share her own journey to show you the ropes on how to market yourself in an honest and creative way.

Choose one workshop per Morning and Afternoon session when making your booking. Spots are limited!

Read more on the MusicNSW website.

For access enquiries, you can contact Maeve Grant at maeve@musicnsw.com.

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