A brief glimpse at the goings-on in the WA music industry, rounded up by WAM aka West Australian Music.
OUR SOUNDTRACK OUR STORIES
WAM is proud to back West Australian artists through our partnership with Our Soundtrack Our Stories.The initiative, which launched one week after Jack River's viral call-to-arms, is an open invitation from our country's music community to the rest of Australia to discover, champion, share, and consume more local music.
We want to hear more West Aussie tunes in our supermarkets, restaurants and in our media!
The effects of the COVID-19 crisis are still damaging the music industry today with over $64 million in revenue lost since 1 July, 2021, among just 2,000 respondents to the I Lost My Gig survey. It is more vital than ever that we are supporting our homegrown heroes.
Head to the ARIA website to check out the many ways you can get involved with the movement and keep an eye on our social media accounts as we'll be sharing activities you can engage with and what we're doing to support the Our Soundtrack Our Stories message.
WAM SAFETY IN MUSIC
WAM strongly believes that anyone working within, or interacting with, any aspect of the music sector should feel safe and secure.To support the industry in this area we are delivering a series of Safety in Music initiatives and resources.
These include a series of forums and Safety in Music workshops, the formulation of a focus group to improve the WAMAwards nomination and judging process in relation to people who identify as BIPOC, ongoing gender equity activities, regular Women's Music Network meetings, the establishment of a key resources page and more.
Safety In Music forum
WAM SONG OF THE YEAR AWARDS PARTY
We're looking forward to finally celebrating the WAM Song of the Year Awards 2021. Following the June postponement, WAM's annual celebration of WA's best new songs returns to Freo.Social on Wednesday 22 September.It'll be a jam-packed evening of WA music as we reveal the winners live on stage.
Hosted by the magnificent MC duo Blake Williams and Odette Mercy, enjoy live performances from 2021 nominees Chaos Divine, Wasteland with Sydnee Carter, Detour and Warralgurniya plus tunes from the RTRFM Homegrown DJs.
Keep an eye on our socials for all the exciting updates as we get closer to crowning this year's winners.
LAUNCHPAD Upcoming local launches
Honour Culture band launch - The Bird, 1 Sep
Whiskey Jack single launch - The Sewing Room, 3 Sep
DICE single launch - Indian Ocean Hotel, 3 Sep
BEXX single launch - The Rechabite, 3 Sep
Star Arcana single launch - Lucy's Love Shack, 4 Sep
Smol Fish EP launch - Mojos, 4 Sep
Anna Schneider single launch - The Bird, 9 Sep
Bohemian Crash single launch - Milk Bar, 10 Sep
The Feast of Snakes album launch - The Bird, 10 Sep
Pretty Uglys single launch - Jack Rabbit Slim's, 11 Sep
Redcliffe EP launch - Indian Ocean Hotel, 12 Sep
Lazer Gator single launch - Indian Ocean Hotel, 17 Sep
Joan & The Giants + Green Pools double single launch - Mojos, 18 Sep
The Ivory Lies album launch - The Aardvark, 18 Sep
Magdelena Strutton single launch - SONAR Room, 23 Sep
Daniel Wiggins Group album launch - SONAR Room, 25 Sep
