Can you believe that it's August already!? Let's hope you are keeping warm and avoiding the swine! We have some really great releases and tours to announce this month, so enjoy our August edition of The Mushroom Group Newsletter!
Corporate brands we are working with this month
in this issue...
New Announcements!
Dave Hughes
Jimmy Barnes
Ian Moss
The Best of Both Worlds
ANVIL: The Story of Anvil!
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New signing for Liberator!
[PIAS] Entertainment Group via it's deal with Liberator Music in Australia & New Zealand have signed a deal with musical freedom to work on the much anticipated forthcoming album from global star TIËSTO.
The Sound Relief DVD!
The highly anticipated DVD release of Sound Relief is confirmed, with all artists, publishers and labels providing royalty free clearances. The 4 DVD set will be released through Liberation Music on October 2 and will feature highlights of EVERY artist who performed at Sound Relief. Close to nine hours of footage will appear on the DVDs showcasing what is arguably a landmark event in Australia’s rich music history.
WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO:
DAVE HUGHES Dave Hughes is Handy Dave Hughes is perhaps one of the most important and significant talents to have emerged from the Australian comedy scene in the last ten years. A natural and unmistakably Australian comic, Dave’s laconic style thinly disguises one of the fastest comic minds this country has ever seen.He hit the road in 2009, with
his latest solo show offering, Dave Hughes is Handy. And now Liberation Music is proud to release the DVD of that show, Dave Hughes Is Handy. Featuring all brand new material, this new DVD cements Dave’s position at the top of the Australian comedy pantheon.
The DVD features a full length show recorded at the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, along with bonus features including exclusive backstage footage and ‘At Home With The Hugheses’, an intimate and personal look at Dave’s family life in his Melbourne home.
Jimmy Barnes The Rhythm And The Blues
NO one can craft a tribute album quite like Jimmy Barnes.
It’s a musical treat that comes along every decade or so and which always hits the spot with his fans. The good news is the stars have aligned and Barnes has again paid tribute to the pioneers of modern music - this time he’s dug a little deeper into the music vaults and rediscovered “the rhythm and the blues”.
Listen to the single 'Red Hot'.
IAN MOSS Shake/Let's Stay Together
The voice of Ian Moss has modestly purred beneath his searing guitar playing for more than 30 years – but no longer. For his sixth solo album, Soul on West 53rd, Ian’s sweet, soaring vocal is the pivot around which famed American producer Danny Kortchmar has built a rich, soulful sound, drawing on classic songs from the likes of Sam Cooke, Al Green, Otis Redding and Bill Withers. Unleashing this surge of soul power has unlocked a whole new chapter in Mossy’s performing career, which ironically was triggered by his appearances on the television series It Takes Two that highlighted vocal duets.
Check out the single 'Shake'
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Various Artists
The Best Of Both Worlds is a concept that combines CD and DVD - the best of both worlds! A series of these releases from artists such as Jimmy Barnes, James Reyne, Mark Seymour, Diesel, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson. The Album/DVD collection series is such a wonderful package!
Take a listen to the Max Sessions Live version of 'Rattlin' Bones' Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson!
A Roadshow Films & Mushroom Pictures Project
Roadshow Films and Mushroom Pictures are proudly releasing the film, Anvil: The Story of Anvil!, on September 10th to cinemas around Australia.
The film is about dreams, hope, success and failure. It will make you laugh and cry, but most importantly make you feel inspired.
At 14, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. They meant it.
Their band, Anvil, went on to become the “demigods of Canadian metal,” releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982’s Metal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generation, including Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, that went on to sell millions of records. But Anvil’s career took a different path – straight to obscurity.
Watch the trailer here!
We have a few very special passes for the Anvil Movie Premiere in Sydney: Wednesday 26th August Melbourne: Friday 28th August
For an invitation to the Premiere please email Sarah Donelly on sarahd@mgpromotions.com.au First in best dressed!
WHO WE ARE TOURING
THE BLACK EYED PEAS
(1 October 2009 - 13 October 2009)
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BEN FOLDS
(Thursday 3 September 2009)
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GREEN DAY
(4 December 2009 - 19 December 2009)
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JIMMY BARNES
(31 July 2009 - 15 August 2009)
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MATISYAHU
(12 August 2009 - 13 August 2009)
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THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
(19 August 2009 - 24 August 2009)
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THE B52's
(21 November 2009 - 13 December 2009)
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THE SCRIPT
(22 September 2009 - 29 September 2009)
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JAMES HUNTER
(24 October 2009 - 29 October 2009)
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