Western.Oz Blog

6th of February

Coffee Jar Slide - Elysium
The Monday Code - Nowhere (Everywhere)
The Bullet Holes - Lost Cause
Burgers of Beef - Falling Down
Crysis - Athena
Schvendes - Small Mercies, Sweet Graves
The Flairz - Bullseye
Sex Panther - Dropkick Your Lover
Streetlight - Attack That Gentleman
Patchwerk - Own Style (Demo of the Week)
Red Jezebel - I'm A Sucker, A Doormat
Wisdom2th - Who Can I Turn To
Freudian Slips - LIVE AT THE OZ
Freudian Slips - Underneath
Freudian Slips - Keep On Breathing
Clandestien - Thanks For The Venom
Astro - New York
DOS4GW feat Clint B & Giles - Brown Water
The Groovesmiths - Bushranger
The Bank Holidays - Two Questions
Birds Of Tokyo - Black Sheet
The Preytells - Could I Change Your Mind (Live on Kickstart)
Pahlemik - Oceans
The Resonance - Hotels and Motels

Back In The Day Band - Clandestien - The Bloodening

Thanks for the listenership kids...Love You ALL!...and of course The Freudian Slip for Playing LIVE AT THE OZ.

Regards

The Western.Oz Team

playlist for the 30th of January

Schvendes - Small Mercies, Sweet Graves
Sunshine Brothers - TNT (no this is NOT a rip-off of ACDC)
Sex Panther - Dropkick Your Lover
Burgers of Beef - Falling Down
The Wednesday Society - Perfect Competition
Bob Evans - Friend
Heads We're Dancing - Tunnel Vision (Daytime WA Artist of the Week)
Streetlight - Attack That Gentleman
Atomica - Black Sheep (Demo of the Week)
Avalore - Let's Settle This
*The Novocaines Interview*
The Novocaines - Lately
The Novocaines - Thursday
Wisdom2th - Who Can I Turn To
The Bullet Holes - Everyday
Love You Not - Stand Up
Digital Persuasion - Rescue Me
Kit Pop - A.M Safari
Bjorn Beyta - Hotsville
Clandestien - Thanks For The Venom
The Meaning Of - For You
Pahlemik - Oceans
As A Weapon - Close To Home
Flow Dynamics - Live In The Mix
7 Years - Always
Maddest Kings Alive - Sleepy Kisses On The Train Ride Home
Coffee Jar Slide - Elysium
Full Proof Productions - A Tribute (to YT)

Back In The Day Band - Boticelli's Angel

Well, yet another productive and fun show....hope you enjoyed it as much as we did...

Regards

The Western.Oz Team

Thanks for listening!

Hey All!!

This is Meg (member number 3 of the western oz team) giving you an update on the goings on of the show and a spiel about myself.

As i sit here in the studio we have the novacaines interview playing
and next week we have the freudian slips coming in for a live at the oz show!!
and the jayco brothers the week after that.. i can't wait!

as for me i'm studying at curtin with a really weird combo
i'm doing a major in physics and a minor in journalism.. have i scared you off yet?
normally when i tell people about my major they step away slowly, look at me weirdly
and run when they think i'm not looking haha.
i joined the station because the radio unit i did for my journo minor was lots of fun!
and then i met gav one day and how could i resist but to join the crew of his new show?
so here i am .. being inducted into the workings of the local music scene by the masters. :-)

feel free to give us a buzz on the blogspot or on our myspace www.myspace.com/westernoz

lots of musical love
=Meg=

Hello Children...Gav here...

We are now 4 weeks into this show and progress is fine and dandy...

But as was stated earlier in this blogger...in the next 5 weeks we have guests and specials galore!

January 30th: The Novocaines (Interview)

Febuary 6th: The Freudians Slips LIVE AT THE OZ

Febuary 13th: Jayco Brothers LIVE AT THE OZ

then...

February 20th: The Western.Oz WAMi Special with Gav, Chris and Julie-Ann.

February 27th: Post WAMi Speical.... with the always special "Gav at the WAMi's"...This was one of the highlights of "The Caffeine Show" Last Year (and the charming Axel Whitehead hitting on me!).

Pretty Much, Gav with a mic and drunk musicians = fun for you!

Beyond that...expect lots more madness and WA Music Fun!

PLUS!

As of next week...we are giving our Western.Oz "We Love WA Music and so should you!" prize pack!!!!...with some of the best releases from 2006 and some of the hottest new gear for you to win!!

We'll tell you all the details and the VERY simple way to enter next week.

Until Next Week...

Gav

P.S Western.Oz Member No.4 will be joining us in the next 2 weeks as well!!

bleh...

Burgers Of Beef - Falling Down
Bob Evans - Friend
Love You Not - Stand Up
Sunshine Brothers - TNT
Sex Panther - Dropkick Your Lover
The Wednesday Society - Perfect Competition
The Novocaines - Thursday (WA Artist of The Week)
Wormhole - Not Unusual
Wisdom2th - Who Can I Turn To
Avalore - Let's Settle This
Operation: Beehive - Playtime (Demo of the Week)
Streetlight - Sunshine Apartments
Bjorn Beyta - Hotsville
*The Bullet Holes Interview*
The Bullet Holes - Lost Cause
The Bullet Holes - Every Day
The Bullet Holes - Where I Fall
The Bronze -The Inventor
DOS4GW feat Clint B and Giles - Brown Water
SansSangria - The Angry Ant
The City Watch - Ravens On Te Edge
Sugar Army - This Can't Be It
Flow Dynamics - Live In The Mix
Nina X - A Case Of Wishful Thiking
The Monday Code - Nowhere (Everywhere)
DUX:555 - Fluid Filled Lungs

Back In The Day Band: Infected

Thanks to the Bullet Holes for chatting with us and of course The Girls and Chris...

HI Kids, Gav here again.

The WAMi Madness Begins...

The WAMi Award Nominees have been announced...if you dont know about who's been nomimated heres the list...

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS
(These are the awards that will be voted on myspace)

Most Popular Act
Eskimo Joe
Karnivool
Snowman
The Panda Band

Most Popular Album
Bob Evans - Suburban Songbook
Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Snowman - Snowman
The Panda Band - This Vital Chapter

Most Popular Single/EP
Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Little Birdy - Come On, Come On
Schvendes - Small Mercies, Sweet Graves
Sex Panther - Killer Pink

Most Popular Live Act
Eskimo Joe
Karnivool
Schvendes
Snowman

Favourite Newcomer
Birds Of Tokyo
Mink Mussel Creek
Streetlight
Sugar Army

Most Popular Music Video
Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Little Birdy - Come On, Come On
Snowman - You Are A Casino
Antistatic - Stand Up In Disguise

Most Popular Music Website
Perthsounds.com
Rockus.com.au
Perthbands.com
wam.asn.au

Most Popular Music Venue

Amplifier Bar
Hyde Park Hotel
Mojos
Rosemount Hotel

Most Popular Music Event

Big Day Out
In The Pines
WAMi Festival
Southbound

INDUSTRY VOTED AWARDS
(Voted by Industry people only)

Most Promising New Act
Faith In Plastics
Mink Mussel Creek
Streetlight
Sugar Army

Best Record Producer/Engineer
Al Smith
Dave Parkin
Shaun O'Callaghan
Adam Spark

Media Award-Individual
Bob Gordon
Dave Cutbush
Mike Wafer
Peter Barr

Best Male Vocalist
Andy Citawarman
Ian Kenny
Justin Burford
Kavyen Temperley

Best Female Vocalist
Abbe May
Katy Steele
Rachael Dease
Storm Wyness

Best Guitarist
Ant Gray
Drew Goddard
Sean Pollard
Jeremy Martin

Best Bassist
Ben Franz
Benjamin Golby
David Namour
Pete Jeavons

Best Drummer
Gabriel Nicotra
Ian Chater
Rob Nassif
Steve Judd

Best Instrumentalist
Alex Archer
Stephen Callan
Tristan Parr
Andy Citawarman

Best Electronic Producer
HiRO?
Lo Key Fu
Pendulum
Shane Norton

Best Blues/Roots Act
Kill Devil Hills
Andrew Winton
Blue Shaddy
Toby

Best Country Music Act
Connie Kis Andersen
Ronni Rae Rivers
Felicity Groom
The Jayco Brothers

Best Rock Act
Schvendes
The Wednesday Society
Snowman
The Silents

Best Indi Pop Act
New Rules For Boats
The Bank Holidays
Institut Polaire
Faith In Plastics

Best Indigenous Act
Pigram Brothers
Richard Walley
Alice Haines
Bartlett

Management Award
Heath Bradby
Phillip Stevens
Scott Adam
Juliet John

Media Award-Organisation
Drum Perth
Rtrfm
Xpress
Rockus

Best DJ
Dan The Man
Fdel
Charlie Bucket
Moflo Leigh

Best Hardcore/Punk Act
Miles Away
From The Ruins
Eleventh He Reaches London
Extortion

Best Hard Rock Metal ActPresented
Karnivool
Subtruck
Pathogen
Voyager

Best Commercial Pop Act
Eskimo Joe
The Sleepy Jackson
Little Birdy
Bob Evans

Best Jazz Act
Sam Anning
VOID
Matt Jodrell
Mace Francis Orchestra

Best WA Record Label
Blazing Strumpet
Jarrah
Qstik
Sic Squared

Golden WAMi
Heath Bradby
Peter Barr
Paul Sloan
Scott Adam

Best Sound Engineer (live or studio)
Al Smith
Dave Parkin
Ian Stuart
Luke Willot

Best Urban/ Hip Hop Act
Downsyde
Drapht
Che'nelle
Hunter

Best Live Electronic Act
Sir Apple
Pendulum Live
Fdel
The Resonance

Best Funk Act
Lysistrata
The Roast
The Crux
Bobby Blackbird and the Bluejays

Best World Act
Double Entendre
Collective Latino
Zarm
David Hyams And The Miles To Go Band

We at Western.Oz will try to provide the best damn coverage of thew WAMi Awards we can...and of course the WAMi Festival itself. Because we are new I'm expecting a whole lotta "who the fuck are you?" from people but hey...thats the life as a rookie show.

Show News:

We have just booked ourselves out for the next 7 weeks of shows (including our WAMi Festival Specials). But you can mark in a LIVE AT THE OZ Performance from The Feaudians Slips, The Jayco Brothers and maybe Bianca Jade.

Plus we'll talking to The Bullet Holes and The Novocaines in the next two weeks and plenty of new WA Music is coming too...so stay tuned because we have plenty of shit on for you entertainment.

Thats all for now...

Regards

Gavin Crossley

*cough*

The Monday Code - Everywhere (Nowhere)
7 Years - Always
The Bullet Holes - Where I Fall (WA Artist of the Week)
Wormhole - Not Unusual
The Meaning Of - For You
Mr Sister - Unravelling
Bordeaux - Goodbye (LIVE AT THE OZ)
Pathaway - Off The Floor
The Novocaines - Lately
The City Watch - Ravens On The Edge (Demo of the Week)
Operation: Beehive - Playtime
Bjorn Beyta - Hotsville
DOS4GW feat Clint B & Giles - Brown Water
The Bronze - The Inventor
Sugar Army - This Can't Be It
The Yeah Nahs - Faster Than Slow
Abbe May - Old River
SansSangria - The Angry Ant
DUX: 555 - Fluid Filled Lungs
In A Moment - The Users Guide To Longevity
Maddest Kings Alive - First Man To Ride A Bycycle in Oakhill

A HUGE Thank You to Coxy from Love You Not for playing last nights "LIVE FROM THE OZ".

To everyone that listened we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did...tune in next week for out chat with The Bullet Holes and much more.

Regards

Gav

Show Stuff:

It seems, that this little blog looks a little bland (for the bands it's good...it's just....Oh, Cool they played us!). So, I thought it's time to write something other than a playlist and a introduction to your Western.Oz Team (which I may add is expanding further...very soon)

First of all, I like to thank Bordeaux for putting on a superb show last Tuesday Night on "Live At The Oz". Love You Not are due up for "Live At The Oz" Next Week...so if they play half as good as Bordeaux did...it'll be an awesome show.

In other show News...Bands have been approaching us for interviews like there is no tomorrow! A few things are unconfirmed...so you WON'T be told about those...but I can confirm after Love You Not coming in this Tuesday Night, I'll be chattting to The Bullet Holes the week after. The week after that...I'll be chatting to Northam Indie Rockers (by phone obviously) The Novocaines. Plus a few more "Live At The Oz" performances in the next few weeks...maybe. STAY TUNED!

Random News (that you may or may not care about):

• I would like to wish a farewell to The Fault's Bassist, Dave Carter who has left the band....a new Bass Player is TBA.
  

"After the unfortunate departure of our beloved bass player Dave, we'd just like to inform you that we do have a replacement member and things will be back in full swing again for the WAMi festival in late Febraury, with a new twist to look forward too..." - The Fault from thier Myspace Blog

The Fault are dear friends of mine and are have been supporters of our radio staion and vice versa for a while now...and we look forward to more from them and thier line-up...

• Perth Punkers, Last Years Hero have broken up...this thier statement to thier fans on myspace.
  

"Hey guys wazup. As some of you may or may not know as of the first week of 2007 Last Years Hero is no longer an active band. This was a decision that has been building up over the last few months and as the new year ticked over we came to the conclusion that our passion was no longer with the band. It wasnt an easy decision but the situation we were in pretty much spelt out what we needed to do.

Up until now we had the best times in our lives, recording two releases, playing over 400 shows across Australia, touring Japan and meeting some of the greatest people whom we are still great friends with today.

Huge thanks goes out to all of the people who were ever into our band in any kind of way, coming out to shows, buying our records and even just sharing a drink or three. Without the fans we wouldnt have even come close to as far as we did so massive props go out to you all!!!
Massive thanks goes out to our manager Nick Compton for all his hard work over the last three years aswel as Jeff Halley at Monster Management. And without the help of Below Par Records(aus) and Big Mouth Records(jpn) you guys would have never been able to hear our music so we cant thank those guys enough for giving us our start and releasing our music!!!!

Thanks again LAST YEARS HERO............." - Last Years Hero... from thier myspace blog.

• Richard of The Freudian Slips told me last night, that an EP is on the way...like VERY SOON! I love "The Freudians" and this WILL be a superb EP...so look for it and of course stay tuned to Western.Oz to hear it first and of course we will be chatting to them...hopefully.
  

• Reportedly (in X-Press Magazine) Schvendes (another Gav Favourite) have pretty much completed their 1st album. They are shooting videos for the singles as well. Needless to say...but i'm excited as!
  

That enough from me for now...

Tune on Tuesday Nights from 8pm on 89.7 Twin Cities FM from Western.Oz.

Kind Regards

Gavin Crossley

and so it went...

The Bullet Holes - Lost Cause
Streetlight - Attack That Gentleman
7 Years - Empty Promises
Mink Mussle Creek - Gigantor The Terrible
Gata Negra - Chosen Few
Bob Evans - Friend
Columbia - Preacher Man
Sex Panther - Pretty Boys
The Novocaines - Lately
Kit Pop - A.M Safari (Demo of the Week)
Avalore - Let's Settle This
Nina.X - A Case Of Wishful Thinking
The Monday Code - Nowhere (Everywhere)
Schvendes - Small Mercies, Sweet Graves
Burgers Of Beef - Falling Down
Flow Dynamics - Live In The Mix
Fools Rush In - Chase The Sun
Snowman - You Are A Casino
6000 Red - Seems To Be
The Yeah Nahs -Faster Than Slow
The Meaning Of - For You
Articifical Sweetner - The Rays Are All In Hiding

Back In The Day Band: Ether

A HUGE Thanks to Bordeaux for playing "Live At The Oz" they were superb!
Also Congrats to Sam for making it through her 1st show with me.

Thanks for listening...and cya next week.

Gav (on behalf on the Western.Oz Team)