October Seminar

The October ‘On the Road Again’ seminar helps you get all the pieces together for a tour worth doing. Whether you are a musician, performer, manager, crew or just ‘with the band’ this one day seminar will help drive you past the potholes of touring, making it there and back in one piece (and hopefully with all band members).

Work-shopping the best times to tour, how to make touring boost your career, booking tour logistics, the best way to market and promote the tour without destroying the bank balance along with some good tour yarns in there too.

Joining the journey is Icehouse guitarist Paul Gildea of Paul Gildea Artist Management (Stonefield, Michael Paynter), John Sinclair of Fleming Artists (Ani DiFranco, Colin Hay, Paul Dempsey), Karen Conrad of Karen Conrad Publicity (Ross Wilson, Mental As Anything, Gary Numan) and Tommy Spender (Spender, Offcuts), Pete Williamson of Team Trick (Dead Letter Circus, Forrester Saville) and Sarah-Jane Wentski of Princess One Point Five and APRA.

When: October 15th 2011
Time: 10am to 5pm
Where: NMIT Fairfield
Yarra Edge Music Centre - Building G
How much?

$88 General Admission and $77 Student (enter 'student' at checkout and bring student card on the day)

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John Sinclair

John Sinclair booked his first band in Oct 1968, and over the past 42 years he has represented Men at Work, Midnight Oil, INXS as an agent, and Jeff Lang, Weddings Parties Anything, Chris Wilson and Xavier Rudd as a manager. He currently runs Fleming Artists, the first U.S agency to operate in Australia, representing amongst others Graveyard Train, The Brothers Grim and Jordie Lane

Pete Williamson

Pete Williamson currently co-owns/runs Team Trick Management with his business partner Jim McKinnon. Team Trick currently manage Dead Letter Circus, Closure In Moscow, Wolves, Forrester Savell, Eric Sarafin and Lee Groves. Pete also self-managed/played in the band Mammal and now self manages/plays in the band Black Devil Yard Boss.

Pete completed a Bachelor of Contemporary music and is also a qualified school teacher, he received his first major break in the industry by playing guitar for Pete Murray's band (first two album cycles) and touring the globe. Pete now has 15 years of music industry experience ranging from playing in bands and managing musician/producers.

Karen Conrad

Karen Conrad is a US born Melbourne based publicist who has worked with Daddy Cool, Ross Wilson, Mental As Anything, Dog Trumpet, Charles Jenkins, Penny Ikinger, Nicky Bomba, Cougar Flashy, Steve Lucas, Ron Peno, Kim Salmon, The Darling Downs, Dave Graney, Clare Moore and Jimmy Little.

She has promoted and publicised tours by Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Talking Heads, Mothers of Invention) and Ramblin' Jack Elliott and publicised tours by Barry Adamson (Bad Seeds, David Lynch), Gary Numan and Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) and handles publicity for the Age EG Music Awards since the first awards night in 2005 and other glittery events including Charles Jenkins Annual Winter Ball at the Corner Hotel and the inaugural Hunter S Thompson Wake at the Cherry Bar.

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On The Road Again	Cover Your Artz' touring seminar

10-10.30	registration
10.30-11.30	Magical mystery tour ... This session will go into -When to tour for your career, What makes a successful tour? And all the good bits in between	Paul Gildea and Tom spender
11.30-12.15	Records gone gold... This session will discuss -What types of deals are available, how to breakeven using Merch, Where should you tour? And why	John Sinclair
12.15-1	Get on with the show... This session will discuss how to apply for your grants, how else to plan your tour and what no one ever tells you but you should always know	Sarah Jane Wentzki
1	lunch
2-2.45	Get on with the show.. This session will go into how to make yourself known to media and punters alike and how to build your business using touring. It will also look into what types of marketing work in different situations.	Karen Conrad
2.45-3.30	We Are The Road Crew... This session will go into planning the tour as best you can. It will look at tips and tricks for finding the right people and booking all the logistics so that the tour is as painless as possible.	Pete Williamson
3.30-3.45	break
3.45-4.30	Back On a Roll... Networking afternoon - Now that we can book and promote a show, How can you out on a great show?
4.3	drinks

Speakers

Paul Gildea

Paul has been a part of the Australian music scene for many years as a musician, writer, educator and most recently a manager.

He has been the lead guitar player for Icehouse, James Reyne, Vika and Linda as well as many others and toured the US for 2 years playing guitar and singing with the Little River Band.

He has written music for film, television and theatre and completed training books and video on the electric guitar for schools. He has also been a guest lecturer at JMC, SAE, RMIT and for Ausmusic.

He was the manager of Motor Ace for three and a half years until the end of 2004 and now runs a post production business as well as managing Michael Paynter and Stonefield.

Tom Spender

Tom Spender studied an Advanced Diploma of Music performance on Saxophone at NMIT and ended up spending most of his time making a living as a busker on the streets of Melbourne. Not long after graduating he found great joy in programming, songwriting and production after making a hilarious home made EP on pirated software with a friend. This lead to radio and heavy touring both nationally and internationally, recording numerous albums and being involved in various musical projects including the Offcuts.

Tom now is focusing on a solo release under the moniker SPENDER and his career as a producer collaborating with artists such as Gotye, Kimbra, Lior, Bertie Blackman, and his rad little company " Donut Beach Music " which produces music for Film, theatre and the advertising industry.

Sarah-Jane Wentzki

Sarah-Jane Wentzki is probably best known for her work as Princess One Point Five, the Melbourne based indie rock band slash duo, slash solo project. She’s a singer, multi instrumentalist, songwriter, self managed artist who also helps to run an independent record label (Pharmacy Records), and as if that weren’t enough, she is also a writers services representative at APRA.

So…What does this mean?

SJ is many things to many people, but above and beyond everything she’s someone who loves her job, even if it sometimes means juggling a myriad, often conflicting, tasks to bring home the bacon. She’s joining the Cover Your Artz crew to talk with you about some of the pitfalls, pinnacles and rewards of being an independent jack-of - all-trades artist in this ever changing world of music making and delivery. Primarily she’s been asked to share her knowledge of the precarious and oft frustrating activity of grants writing and assessment, informed by a 4 year stint at working in the Contemporary and Live Music Development program at Arts Victoria (formerly Victora Rocks).

More info: www.princessonepointfive.com

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