Boost is done and dusted for 2020!
Thanks to all participants, speakers, musicians, supporters, sponsors, and the awesome team who pulled it all together.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the JMC Academy prize.
Monday, 17 August 2020
5.30pm – 8pm
Logan Entertainment Centre
170 Wembley Road, Logan Central
This sets the scene for all things Logan Live Boost and Music Month. You’ll have the opportunity to mingle with fellow artists and hear from representatives from key Queensland industry bodies. You’ll learn about the current national and international music landscape and get the chance to contribute to the discussion about challenges that artists face.
Panel members: Dom Miller QMusic, Simon Mula BEMAC, Andrew Tuttle APRA AMCOS, and musician Blake Durant
Facilitator: Lilly Shearman, Independent Arts Management
Monday, 24 August 2020
5.30pm – 8pm
Logan Entertainment Centre
170 Wembley Road, Logan Central
Being a musician can be demanding: you need to look after your physical, mental and financial health. In this session you’ll learn ways to get performance fit, put money in the bank and keep a level head – particularly in times of stress. Contribute to the discussion about how best to look after number one.
Panel member: Graham Ashton Footstomp Music and Paige Johnston PnP Health Managing Director
Facilitator: Lilly Shearman, Independent Arts Management
Monday, 31 August 2020
5.30pm – 8pm
Logan Entertainment Centre
170 Wembley Road, Logan Central
So you’re talented, got some great music happening – how do you get noticed? Find out what’s involved in marketing you! Skill up on creating the ultimate electronic press kit, and how to stand out on your social media platforms. We’ll also cover media releases and how to craft the perfect pitch to blogs and playlists.
Panel member: Ali Strachan, Creative Arts Marketing
Facilitator: Lilly Shearman, Independent Arts Management
Monday, 7 September 2020
5.30pm – 8pm
Logan Entertainment Centre
170 Wembley Road, Logan Central
If you’re recording music in your bedroom, Daniel Spirovski, Head of Audio Engineering and Sound Production from JMC Academy, will school you on what equipment you’ll need to start your home studio set up.
Local feature artists DVNA, Lalka and Zeek will share their experiences on overcoming creative blocks and collaborating with artists across Australia. Hear their approach to writing music and how they’ve turned their first demos into mastered recordings.
Panel members: Daniel Spirovski JMC Academy, and musicians DVNA, Lalka and Zeek
Facilitator: Lilly Shearman, Independent Arts Management
Monday, 14 September 2020
5.30pm – 8pm
Logan Entertainment Centre
170 Wembley Road, Logan Central
Have you got plans to take it all the way in this industry? At this session you’ll learn how the pros have built sustainable careers in the music biz by developing multiple revenue streams. Queensland booking agents will teach you how to reach out to promoters, lose your fear of failing and land that dream gig.
Panel members: Chris Langenberg, musician and venue booker, Adian and Ash, artists managers and Holly Walton, Senior Business Development Executive, Logan City Council
Facilitator: Lilly Shearman, Independent Arts Management
Monday, 21 September 2020
5.30pm – 8pm
Logan Art Gallery
Cnr Wembley Road and Jacaranda Avenue, Logan Central
‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.’
Have you ever wondered what goes into a release or how to get your record out? This session will reveal what goes on behind the scenes, how to prepare your perfect release plan, choose your distributor and when to send your track out into the world for outrageous success.
Panel member: Louvel Yapali GYROStream representative
Facilitator: Lilly Shearman, Independent Arts Management
Adian and Ash are best mates turned business partners, taking the forever growing entertainment industry by storm.
Adian is an electrician by trade and music lover by nature, with experience in management of several different businesses, including his own electrical contracting business.
Ash has been a musician his whole life, drumming for Slip on Stereo and Amy Shark and support touring the country with the likes of Sheppard, Busby Marou, Lime Cordial, Dead Letter Circus and New Zealand’s Sons of Zion plus many more. Ash is also a painter by trade and runs his own painting business.
Adian and Ash have merged their business and music knowledge to take on the entertainment and management industry, as two heads are always better than one.
Currently they manage The Voice 2019 contestants Zeek Power, Mitch Paulsen, Jordy Marcs, Chriddy Black and the rapidly growing Brisbane based band, Selfish Sons plus a handful of Brisbane and Gold Coast DJ’s.
They are also looking after the Event’s Management and Venue Vibe to a number of venues, including the Winners of ‘Best Boutique Bar Qld 2019’ The Terrace, Emporium Southbank.
Andrew Tuttle works with both APRA AMCOS’ (Australasian Performing Right Association, Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) 13,000-plus Queensland-based songwriter/composer members and the broader Australian music industry in his role as National Engagement to Manager – National Engagement. Having started at APRA AMCOS in early 2013, Andrew comes from a background of executive programming and project support roles for small and large arts organisations around Australia, as well as stints as a promoter and writer. Andrew is also a musician, having toured Australia and Europe and released three solo albums of ambient country music under his own name.
Ali Strachan is a digital marketer and arts advocate who works with artists and musicians both locally and Australia-wide to market their work and build sustainable creative businesses. She’s particularly interested in supporting local arts culture, previously through online blog features and podcast, as well as partnering with local organisations to deliver a series of Regional Arts Development Fund supported workshops for Logan seniors and people with disability. In her current role, she supports artists and musicians to build their personal brand and market their work effectively. She’s helped photographers gain exhibition space interstate and globally, and has worked with DJs, The Voice finalists and Sydney Music Academies to help them achieve success.
Blake Durant has worked as a musician playing both covers and originals in South East Queensland for the last 19 years, and full time for the last five years. He has featured in some of the most iconic venues both in Brisbane and abroad, has written, recorded and toured albums with originals outfits, and played session work for various studios. Blake has a wealth of experience in corporate events, pubs and clubs, weddings, festivals and cruises. Blake currently performs three to six shows a week in BAM Duo and BAM Solo, two of Brisbane’s most sought-after cover acts. Blake has witnessed changes to the live music scene and some of the hardest but also most exciting times to be a working musician and has managed to flourish. His passion for both music and performance is evident at every show.
Chris Langenberg is a 22-year-old musician, venue booker, manager and promoter from Brisbane. At the age of 18 Chris started an online publication called GRAIN whilst studying a bachelor of music at university. GRAIN grew from an online platform to a promoting company with the launch of club nights and GRAIN’s annual festival called Against the Grain, which started in 2016.
Currently, Chris works full time as a venue booker for Social State and looks after Crowbar Brisbane, The Brightside – Outdoors, Black Bear Lodge, Barbara and Blutes in Brisbane and assists with Stay Gold in Melbourne. With this, he also works on festivals such as Mountain Goat Valley Crawl.
Chris is also a band manager for acts Concrete Surfers and Dopamine and also plays in a touring band himself in Sweater Curse who has featured on festivals such as Falls Festival and Laneway Festival and has toured/supported acts like Violent Soho, WAAX, The Jungle Giants, Ball Park Music, Phantastic Ferniture, Grinspoon and more.
Craig Spann is a writer, manager, label owner, publicist, artist, music policy consultant and advocate for music. Growing up in Beenleigh, Craig has a strong family connection to Logan. Craig spent time with peak bodies Q Music and the Australian Music Industry Network but he now focuses on his independent music company, SUGARRUSH Music. SUGARRUSH provides project management, release strategy development, artist management and event coordination services to musicians. Craig also works with government and industry organisations across the country to develop music friendly policy that supports the live sector and industry development. In the end though, he is happiest with a Telecaster in hand, making a whole lot of noise.
Daniel Spirovski is a multi-instrumentalist on saxophone, bass and keyboards who has been in the music industry for close to 20 years playing in originals outfits from funk, rock to hip-hop and has also performed extensively in corporate bands. Daniel is also an accomplished music producer and educator in the fields of music technology, music production and songwriting and is the Head of Audio Engineering and Sound Production at JMC Academy, Brisbane.
DVNA, a colourful, bold and intriguing project born within the depths of a Gold Coast bedroom in early 2017. Taking control of her own production, it allows her the artistic freedom to truly express herself, creating a warm fusion between new age soul and electronica, referencing Anderson .Paak and Syd.
Her sound is fierce, emotive and heading straight for your feels, fusing elements of soul and modern day electronica to create her own unique blend. She likes to write relevant, borderline humorous lyrics exposing her very real conversations with friends, as well as revealing a more personal insight about her own past.
DVNA has been turning heads all around the country with her smooth and sultry vocals. Her short career has already racked up an impressive resume including 2.4M Spotify streams, a nomination for Song Of The Year at the Gold Coast Music Awards (Girl On The Move), supported the likes of LEISURE, Alice Ivy, Kira Puru, Arno Faraji and performed at various music festivals including Laneway Festival, Bleach Festival and Arcadia. She was named triple j Unearthed Feature Artist in January 2020 and showcased at BIGSOUND 2019 where she was one of the most talked about artists of the whole festival.
With two more singles and an EP planned for 2020, there is no stopping this fierce Gold Coast artist.
After almost 20 years at labels, Graham Ashton launched Footstomp Music in 2010 as a music services company specializing in artist, project and event management. Footstomp currently manage Aodhan, Busby Marou, Colin Lillie and Tia Gostelow. Footstomp also book the Gold Coast Home Of The Arts and take care of the publicity for Nonesuch for Australia and New Zealand.
Graham was also the Executive Programmer for BIGSOUND from 2010 – 2014. He has since found himself speaking at events such as SXSW, CMJ, Canadian Music Week and the New Zealand Global Music Summit.
Graham is proud to have worked closely with hundreds of artists including the likes of Robbie Williams, Powderfinger, Amy Shark, The Living End, Paul Kelly, The Go-Betweens, and Mumford & Sons. He is getting more obsessed about music with age.
Holly’s passion is helping businesses grow!
She is an experienced and enthusiastic marketing and economic and business development professional with extensive management and Board experience. She is currently the Senior Business Development Executive – Local Connections for Logan City Council and responsible for the development of Logan’s 20,000+ businesses.
Previously, Holly ran her own marketing and business advisory consultancy, MarketingWest, and assisted businesses through the Australian Government’s Australian Small Business Advisory Services (ASBAS) and the WA State Government’s Business Local Programmes. During this time, she was also a Business Advisor for the Small Business Development Corporation (WA).
Holly is a Director and member of Economic Development Australia (EDA) and she sat on the State Practitioners Network (SPN) for WA before moving to Queensland and joining the Qld SPN.
Holly is currently studying a Masters in Business Law at Southern Cross University, has a Graduate Certificate in Development Planning from Curtin University, a Bachelor in Business (Marketing & Management) from Edith Cowan University, and continues to seek out professional development opportunities.
A multi-hyphenate artist and producer based in Brisbane/Meanjin, LÂLKA’s brazen take on pop experimentalism has been called many things: “the future”, “attitude-filled organised chaos”, “too cool for this world”, “surreal, cacophonous and a whole lot of fun, with manipulated vocals and foundation-shaking bass”. Her contortion of PC-music and hip-hop influences through the lens of her own experiences as a woman of colour is palatial and ferocious with plenty of tongue-in-cheek energy, much like her stage presence; where LÂLKA’s dynamism comes to life through dance, real-time sample triggering and live instrumentation from the classically trained musician.
Hi, I’m Lilly!
Louvel Yapali is the senior publicist at GYROstream, an Australian owned digital distribution and artist services company based in Brisbane. Over her career, Louvel has been a key figure behind the scenes in Queensland’s music industry working behind the scenes with live music and club nights, as well as having supported artists and events through her work in music marketing and publicity – including music festival work for clients such as St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, THIS THAT, Mountain Goat Valley Crawl, XXXX: Live At The Brewery, Best Night Ever and more. Her independent music artist clients to date include Holiday Party, sweater curse, PNK FME, DVNA, Sunbather, VOIID, Kymie, Chymes and more.
Paige is an experienced Mental Health Program Manager and has been delivering the pivotal Mental Health First Aid Training to the Australian community for over 5 years. Paige has extensive experience in mental health broadly, and has an ingrained passion for educating people about Mental Health. It was during Paige’s first year at University, studying Human Services that she realised Psychology and Mental Health was a strong passion of hers.
Paige’s most recent experience has been in various management roles supporting large teams in Mental Health Services with federal, state government and NDIA funding. Experience that is invaluable when delivering Mental Health First Aid to other Managers, as Paige is able to draw on her personal experiences to enhance the training content.
Paige’s experience also means that she has worked with people with complex needs and different life experiences/challenges, and therefore knows the importance knowing the right services, support and assistance that is available. Paige is extremely passionate about Mental Health and how we can support each other to create a community that is understanding, empathic, holds hope and supports each other into the future.
Simon joined BEMAC in 2017. An experienced creative and cultural producer, event manager, arts facilitator and educator, production manager and music producer, Simon is passionate about developing and building culturally diverse artists and communities through multi-arts processes of creativity and culture.
He is the creative force behind World of Dance, Creative Schools Initiative and District Studios, a creative visionary who works with a passion to bring together culturally diverse artists, arts workers and producers to implement great ideas through creativity and culture.
As BEMAC’s Artist Development Coordinator, Simon is dedicated to developing and amplifying the multicultural talent Brisbane is home to.
Zeek Power is a solo artist hailing from Brisbane, QLD. Despite his humble beginnings, Zeek has managed to independently build a small online empire, thanks to his ongoing dedication to his YouTube channel and his relentless live touring schedule; including support tours with Sheppard and Busby Marou as well as his national headlining tour, “The CANDYDRUNK Tour” throughout 2019.
Capturing audiences across the globe with his ‘ult-R&B’ twist on pop songwriting, he is rapidly becoming a worldwide sensation and looks set to release his next collection of songs in 2020. Zeek was also a top 3 finalist representing Team Kelly Rowland on the 8th season of Australia’s The Voice, on Channel 9 in 2019.
This project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Partners: Regional Arts Services Network through BEMAC, JMC Academy and APRA AMCOS.