October 2009

Week 4 30/10/09 Uploading this week's Vodcast, so it should be up shortly. This week's round up of local music news, gigs for the weekend, and we feature clips from Dead Kelly and Tom Cooney. Check it out here. 29/10/09 Those Wingspan boys have stated that they're about to record what can be described as their first 'legit' EP. Looking forward to that one. Big night of EEEEEEEVVVVVVIIIIIILLLLLL on Saturday night at the Sands Tavern, with Excruciate, Archaea, Ablaze Withsin and more playing on Halloween. This gig will also be CD Launch for the Ablaze Withsin crew, but you can get a sneak peak of the CD by heading to their myspace and listening to the tracks My Insanity and Sheep Among the Wolves (remastered). 28/10/09 Summer of Sound is coming! With 4 x $1800 EP packages up for grabs you'd be mad not to enter. Registration closes in 3 days so if you are in or know of any bands, dj's, singer songwriters who would be interested better let them know QUICK! Register at the Summer of Sound website. Working on a new page dedicated to photos taken at gigs featuring Sunshine Coast bands. All aspiring photographers, send them in. The Point will fully reference your work, and if provided, will put up a small bio about you as well. 27/10/09 Those Panda Panda Panda boys have been gratious enough to provide you folk with some samples of their upcoming recording. You can check them out here. From all reports, the Caloundra Music Festival was a great success. Anyone with photos of The Marsden Lees or Vagrant City Scandal, and want to do a review of them, or the festival, please feel free to send it on in. 26/10/09 The Floating Bridges and Rohan Nitschke will be playing The Music Kafe in Brisbane's West End on Sunday November 1st. Definitely worth checking that one out. 25/10/09 Looks like those Panda Panda Panda boys are experimenting and evolving their sound a bit with 3 of the Pandas doing vocals now. Interesting... No podcast/vidcast this week. The Point Party is looking better and better with the RSVPs that have come through. Pine Cone Throat's excited, we've got 7 to 8 bands doing acoustic performances, and fingers crossed for a rain-free night. Will have a special page dedicated to the party afterwards. The Point's been thinking about putting up an Artist of the Month page, what do folks think? Email suggestions to pickmepickme@thepointsunshinecoast.com.au 24/10/09 The Caloundra Music Festival is now in full swing. Heaps of National, International, and local artists performing, including The Marsden Lees on the MASC stage tomorrow from 3.50pm, and The Vagrant City Scandal today at 3.45pm on the stage near the beach. Halloween is nearly upon us, and some awesome shows are happening that night (Oct 31st) with Excruciate, Archaea and more playing the Sands Tavern, and Melodyssey with This Collision playing Club 299 in Brisbane. 22/10/09 Moshpit Music have launched their brand spanking new website, which looks pretty damn shmick. Go check it out at www.moshpitmusic.com.au. These guys have been supporting the local heavy scene for years. The Ailment have announced a whole crapload of shows, so we'll get them up on the gig page soon. The Marsden Lees are playing Uni night at the Sands Tavern tonight, so if you're heading out, be sure to go see these guys in action.

Week 3 21/10/09 Local producer/singer/outright legend, Az Kerwin is playing Mick O'Malley's Irish Pub in Brisbane tonight from 8pm. It's free. Az has produced The Marsden Lees, Technical Symplicity among others. 20/10/09 Caloundra Music Festival time! Plenty of awesome music to catch (lots for free too). Don't forget to catch The Marsden Lees on the MASC stage on Sunday from 3.50pm. Those that have received invitations to The Point Party, can you start sending in your RSVPs please, as I need to get a final head count. Cheers. 19/10/09 Wingspan have announced that they are playing with Dangerous on November 21st at Nambour's Black Box Theatre. The boys are also looking for a replacement bassist, so if you think you have the chops, contact them via their myspace. 18/10/09 The Floating Bridges are playing the Music Kafe tonight in Brisbane's West End. These guys are getting a huge following regularly playing the Music Kafe. Nice. The vodcast is now up for this week. Go have a look-see. 17/10/09 As always, things never quite go as planned, but we still managed to pump out a brand new Vodcast today, which will be up on the podcasts page any second now. This week we feature a live interview with The Floating Bridges, clips from Meat Snorkel and Drawcard, and an inter-band foosball competition. RUMOUR: Could their possibly be a new reggae band forming on the Sunshine Coast? Stay tuned as we follow this up. The Point Party invites have been sent out to bands on The Point, so check your emails and RSVP back to us ASAP. 16/10/09 Bummer! The Point has just learned that Benny's (Technical Symplicity's drummer) birthday bash, which was to feature motocross, Technical Symplicity, The Floating Bridges, DJs, a local Rapper and more has been cancelled. This has put a big dint in the plans to do a vidcast for this week from the party, so instead, this week's podcast will be done from the Technical Symplicity practice, and we'll get a live review of Drawcard's album launch last week at the Sands. Stay tuned for when it goes up. 15/10/09 Melodyssey has announced that Brisbane's This Collision will be joining them at their October 31st, Halloween show at Club 299. Don't forget next month, there will be an awesome lineup playing at The Globe Theatre in Brisbane to raise funds for the Leukemia Foundation. This show. Rock for a Cure, has been organised by a personal friend of The Point, Tomina, and will feature Technical Symplicity, Feed, Perspektiv, and A Mark Amongst Sounds. It's on November 21st (Saturday) and will set you back $10 (+ bf) with tickets available from Oztix.com.

Week 2 14/10/09 Half Sunshine Coast - Half Melbourne Prog metallers, Sydonia have released a new track to please your earbuds. Click here to have a listen to the track, Rubber Bullet. A happy late birthday to Benny, drummer (and rummer) in Technical Symplicity. He's celebrating by having a kickarse party featuring Technical Symplicity, The Floating Bridges, Cold Cream Hot Pie, some local DJs and Rappers, and some motocross action. If you don't know about it or where it is, then you obviously weren't invited. As a complete surprise to The Point, Meat Snorkel has announced more dates for this year (though we were told ages ago that their last show would be this month...disregard that, and go see these crazy blokes do what they do best). Dates are up on the gigs page. 13/10/09 The Toothfaeries are coming to Joe's Waterhole! If you haven't witnessed the feel-good vibes of these Coast legends, don't miss them when they play on November 14th. 11/10/09 Singer/songwriter Emily Thompson has been busy in the studio working on her upcoming demo/EP. It's being produced by Clint Vincent (who's been uber busy working with upcoming bands, such as Arctic and the Dashounds). 10/10/09 Apologies to Meat Snorkel. In this week's podcast, we announced that Meat Snorkel were playing Dell Plaza tonight, when in fact they are playing Shed 5 on the Gold Coast with The C*nt Offensive and more. Half-Melbourne, Half-Sunshine Coast act Sydonia are working on new songs right now. Forever March have a new promo video up on their myspace. 08/10/09 This week's podcast should be up. This week we have a special live performance from Rohan Nitschke in The Point's 'studio', and we feature music from The Diamond Trade. Go listen now! Melodyssey have announced a show at Club 299, with them playing on Halloween (Oct 31st).

Week 1 07/10/09 The Point welcomes Contemporary Folk artist Donna Layden. Donna's recently returned from a stint in Europe. Have a look at her profile here, and listen to her track 'Go Back'. The Ailment are playing in Toowoomba on the Hereafter Tour on Sunday, so if you're in that area, you should check them out. Show starts at 3pm and it's at the Empire Church Theatre. The boys will also be heading into the recording studio in late November. The Point is wondering when The Floating Bridges will be dropping their new EP for us to hear. Raindrops has been mastered, so it shouldn't be far from release. 06/10/09 Looks like Rohan Nitschke's debut at the Music Kafe was a success. We'll get more info on this tomorrow night when he will appear as a special guest on this week's podcast. Drawcard are hitting the Sands Tavern this Friday night. What looks to be Meat Snorkel's last show for the year is this Saturday night at the Dell Plaza on the Gold Coast. Not long to go now till this year's Caloundra Music Festival. 05/10/09 Any of the Sunshine Coast bands that have performed at any of the Gigahertz Presents nights, if you have any cool photos can you email them through to The Point, and I'll pass them on to Andrew at Pushworth. This includes Gigahertz shows at The Sands, Gilhooleys, Bar 388 etc. Panda Panda Panda and Signal The Firing Squad have announced a show at the Gold Coast's Miami Tavern this Friday night. Not sure who Signal The Firing Squad are? Go check their interview with Pine Cone Throat. 04/10/09 Halloween on the Sunshine Coast is shaping to be one heavy, scary, brutal night with Helloween at the Sands on October 31st. $13 gets you Excruciate, Vyrion, Ablaze Withsin, People Die and Archaea in one hell of a night. Rohan Nitschke will be doing his solo blues stuff at the Music Kafe in Brisbane's West End tomorrow night. Free entry. 03/10/09 Drawcard are having their Brisbane launch of their latest album at Club 299 in the Valley tonight (mention Drawcard at the door to get cheaper entry). Excruciate are in pre-production mode for their next full length album, 'Depths of Impurity'. Those legends of gore metal will also be interviewed by Tsunami Magazine soon enough. The Ailment will have some new shows to announce very soon. Sunshine Coast punk legends, Dementia 13 are playing for FREE tonight, at Fat Louie's in Bris Vegas. On a slightly unrelated topic, the next wave of Soundwave announcements will be happening on October 13th, so keep an eye out for that. 02/10/09 Happy Birthday Club Reckless! Breakeven helping Reckless celebrate tonight. Apparently, Meat Snorkel's new songs are coming along very nicely, so we're looking forward to hearing those when the boys unleash them. The Point is now tweeting on Twitter. Even more updates. Look for us @ThePointSC. 01/10/09 It's ROCKtober! The Point Podcast is now up, so go get your Point fix for this week, with interviews from DJ Ryzer, and some local kids. The Marsden Lees playing tonight at Uni Night at the Sands, then supporting Drawcard and Violet Flames tomorrow night at the Kings Beach Tavern from 7pm. This show is FREE. Technical Symplicity guitarist, Rohan Nitschke will be doing his solo work at the Music Cafe in Brisbane on Monday night (October 5th).