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April 2004
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Re: does any one else want to start a punk rock band?
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Tue, 13 July 2004 12:09
 
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hey all.
i just want to throw in my 2cents on the music industry.
'making it' as an australian band (any type of music) isnt a case of 1/1000, its literally 1/1,000,000. Fact is there are 1000's of bands in Australia and a handful are really good then a handful from them are somewhat successful. And then there is only about a dozen that have 'made it'.
Fact; There is too much music variety these days. And frankly we dont have the population to feed it.
Once upon a time your typical australian teenager wouldve been into either pop/disco. rock. metal. punk. thesedays I could list catagories of music on a few A4 pages of paper. Nearly all of my 'typical white surburbanite mates' have extreme wigger syndrome and listen to rap 24/7... thats fine. But the other half are pill popping rave heads. As for the chicks, half are r&b slutz0rs while the other half are into house/dance. This is all fine. Cept it means one thing. Fans of Band type music are growing thinner!. Im not saying its drastically decreasing. But Its definately not growing in some insane rate.
ACDC/Silverchair are virtually the only established international australian bands that have made it. Powderfinger went overseas recently and didnt sell out bar type venues. Grinspoon? Nup. Ofcourse im not including bands that are faddy (eg jet/ the vines) but you know there is a serious problem when you have a band like the butterfly effect not living comfortably. (they sold 20,000 locally) went to the usa to showcase and nothing came of it. And most of the money has gone back into their expenses.
There are some awesome australian acts out there, especially that have come up recently, or last 3-4years.
Support the scene people! check out;
Cog, The Butteffly Effect, Sunk Loto, Gyroscope, Melodyssey, After the Fall.
Atleast these are a few that I rate. I have a large list... =p
People also need to go to local gigs more!.
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