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UncharTED 2009 finals

Daniel Boud — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:11:31 +0000

People queue to get in at Oxford Art Factory

I photographed the uncharTED Grand Final for Peer Group at Oxford Art Factory last Thursday.

UncharTED is a band competition sponsored by Tooheys Extra Dry that offers the opportunity to play Splendour in the Grass along with a $25,000 development package. The next round offers a spot on the Big Day Out bill.

The bands that made it to the final were Foxx on Fire, The Deer Republic and Hot Little Hands.

The winner was The Deer Republic, a pop-rock act from Sydney.

To finish the night, Kram performed show the young bands how this rock’n'roll thing is really done.

Hot Little Hands

Mic and Andy

Felix and Demi

The Deer Republic

Excited Deer Republic fans

The Deer Republic

Foxx on Fire

Winning band The Deer Republic with Rosso

Kram

UncharTED has been around for 3 years now, and is part of a trend for big brands to sponsor music talent competitions.

You’ve got Virgin Mobile sponsoring Garage to V, Vitamin Water sponsoring the National Campus Band Competition, Jack Daniels sponsoring the JD Set, the discontinued Nokia Be Heard competition, Jagermeister sponsoring Jager Uprising.

Some might say it’s unfortunate the way corporations and advertisers are piggy backing on the music scene, aligning their brands with the cool, youthful and partying image.

‘Sell outs’ used to be one of the worst criticisms you could label a band with.

But in an era where no one’s making money selling music, i think it’s a positive thing there’s money being spent promoting new artists. It’s a good move putting money into young bands, not just sponsoring safe established acts.

And it’s not just the bands it supports, it’s the whole scene; sound people, lighting techs, venues, music press, designers, photographers, videographers, etc…

The only problem is, with so many different competitions, the quality of the acts diminishes.

There’s so many uninspiring, middle of the road acts out there – do we really need to give them any more attention than they deserve?

Levity Party at Oxford Art Factory

Daniel Boud — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:03:33 +0000

It’s been a bit quiet here in blogland. Work has been relentless and the internet was cut off at home after the greedy corporate bastards at Telstra delivered a $3000 bill. After i was so nice as to be their poster child for photoblogging. Fuckers.

But onwards. Here’s some photos from the Levity Records christmas party at Oxford Art Factory (where else?) last Friday. Levity’s two bands Mercy Arms and Cut Off Your Hands were due to play, but unfortunately Cut Off Your Hands had to cancel after lead singer Nick broke his ankle jumping from a speaker stack onstage in London. Bummer.

In their place The Scare played who, like Cut Off Your Hands, have an unpredictable and wild stage show, with lead singer Kiss spending much of the set in the crowd getting in scrapes. Andrew G loved it.

My social shots plus the odd band photo can be seen in the Levity party photo gallery.

Robyn @ Oxford Art Factory

Daniel Boud — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:43:48 +0000

I’ve not been shooting much music lately so here’s some shots I almost let go unblogged from several weeks ago, Robyn at Oxford Art Factory.

The Swedish pop singer is now with Modular records and was proudly wearing her Muscles t-shirt. Muscles also contributes a remix to her recent single.

While The Brag thought she was lip-synching her performance, it sounded live to me. She’s like a mix of Uffie, The Knife and your run of the mill pop singer.

See some more photos in the Robyn @ Oxford Art Factory gallery.

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