The weather is heating up and so is the calendar! Join us this month at any of these exciting events; expand, enrich and prosper fellow music nerds!
WAM Awards
What better reason to celebrate than the excellence of community music? The WAM awards will do just that, with a wonderfully curated line-up of musicians coming together for the Perth music scene’s night of nights. Musical guests include Hall of Fame inductees The Stems, Your Girl Pho and seven-time WAM award nominee Carla Geneve.
When: Thursday 1st November, 8pm-12am Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Perth
More information can be found here.
HexFest
When: Monday 5th November, from 7pm
Where: The Gasometer Hotel
We can’t think of a better way to spend the Public Holiday Eve than bouncing around to some of Melbourne’s most exciting punk and experimental acts. This event will see the young Melbourne-based band Hexdebt take over both floors of the Gasometer Hotel, inviting many of their peers to play alongside them including Mod Con, Suss C*nts and Noisegate favourite, Simona.
Tickets are $20 and available here.
Little BigSound
When: Saturday 10th November, 10am-4pm
Where: The Edge, State Library of Queensland
QMusic is really leading the way when it comes to networking events that cater to new and emerging artists. Little BigSound is an underage version of the hugely successful music industry conference BigSound that takes place in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley every September. As such this event aims to provide the same kind of networking experience for youth aged 15-25 years interested in a career in the music industry, and facilitates meetings for participants with local venue bookers, managers, publicist and digital specialists. Also featured this year is an Ableton workshop that will teach participants the basics of this next gen music-making tool.
Tickets are $35 and are available here.
Peel Street Festival
When: Saturday 10th November, 12-8pm
Where: Peel Street, Collingwood
Returning to Peel Street in Collingwood again this year, this free street festival is a favourite among locals and Northside tourists alike. Presented in collaboration with the Grace Darling and the Collingwood community, this year’s line-up includes Totally Mild, Mod Con, Coloured Stone and Girl Zone.
More information is available here.
The Electronic Music Conference
This incredible annual conference returns to Sydney this year with a stellar line-up of speakers and presentations. The EMC is the leading electronic music industry event in the Asia Pacific region, and as such you can expect many pioneering ideas and creative breakthroughs to be shared over the week-long program of keynotes, panels, parties and pop-ups.
When: November 14th-15th
Where: Sydney
Tickets are available here.
The Elefant in the Room
Elefant Traks has been a pivotal voice in the world of Australian hip-hop and RnB for over 20 years, and this event takes places as a part of their 20th birthday celebrations. Elefant Traks invites guests to sit down and hear stories from the ‘tour bus, the studio and the moments in between’ shared by artists and friends of the label including OKENYO and L-Fresh The Lion.
When: Friday 16th November
Where: The Triffid, Brisbane
Tickets are $30 and available here.
Melbourne Music Week
Melbourne is certainly a city blessed with music and culture, and never do you feel it more than during Melbourne Music Week. Here at Noisegate we are so pumped about this year’s MMW that we’ve dedicated an entire article to it! Check it out for our picks of this year’s impressive program.
When: 16th – 24th November
Where: Various venues around Melbourne, including the Hub located at ACMI
More information is available here.
Hear My Eyes: No Country for Old Men + Live Score by Tropical F*ck Storm
Following the immensely successful Hear My Eyes that took place during the Melbourne International Film Festival, this event will see a reimagining of the score to the Cohen Brothers’ masterpiece No Country for Old Men by Melbourne band Tropical F*ck Storm. Featuring members of The Drones, we have no doubt that this live music scoring experience will only add to the moody tension that the original film casts on audiences.
When: 19th – 22nd November
Where: Arts Centre Melbourne
Tickets start at $36 and are available here.
