Presenter Announcement – Jeremy Staples

Jeremy Staples is a Scorpio who enjoys documenting, questioning, promoting community engagement and providing a voice to the voiceless. Turn-on’s include: reading, writing and making people think.

Staples lives and breathes live music, the arts and independent publications. He has worked with everyone from Evermore to Parkway Drive. Jeremy’s current projects include “Whenever I See a Bearded Hobo on the Street, I’ll Think of You and Smile” is a travelogue zine documenting an adventurous three month stay in the land of the golden arches (http://beardedhobo.com/)and retrospective book of the free music and arts Street Zine, Bizoo. (www.bizoo.com.au)

After the recent tragedies in Japan, Staples is about to release a bilingual portrait photography zine with all proceeds going to relief efforts titled, ‘Faces of Nippon -日本の様々な顔’

Along with Bianca Valentino and Matt Limmer, Staples formed the Paper Cuts Collective to share the love of everything handmade and printed. www.papercutscollective.tumblr.com

Over the past two years, Staples has been researching the future of print media abroad and worked alongside with and met with everyone from Maximum Rock and Roll, Microcosm to Tokyo’s largest English print magazine the Metropolis.

Presenter Announcement – Matt Tucker and Ian McIntosh

Matt Tucker and Ian McIntosh join us from Brian Tucker Accounting – a practice dedicated to accounting for the arts. Clients include musicians, managers, studios and venues, visual and performing artists, theatre and dance companies, galleries and art dealers, writers, editors and publishers, Not-for-profit arts organisations, Aboriginal art centres, and the list goes on.
Matt has drummed in a handful of bands over the years, he’s a tattoo collector and has started to immerse himself back into the live music scene after several years holed up in the office. Ian once played the theremin, is tattoo free and attends loads of gigs. They aim to help artists understand business basics, ATO requirements and other compliance issues affecting them personally and as a band.

Presenter Announcement – Paul Gordon

Paul Gordon runs a café in Brisbane's CBD and hosts Balcony TV, a unique web platform for artists, which records live acoustic sets from scenic balconies in the worlds coolest cites, like Paris, Hamburg, Prague, London, Austin, Nashville, New York and now Brisbane.  Showcasing a broad range of genres, from dirty blues or electro pop to acoustic folk and hard rock, fans can get a taste of the bands they‘re crushing on, plus check out similar stuff from around the world. Paul also promotes Future Shorts, a global monthly event held in 60 cities across 18 countries throughout the world, showcasing a single selection of short films alongside the best in live music, performance, art, and more. 

Presenter Announcement – Chris Hunter

Say hello to Chris Hunter. Punk Rock Entrepreneur. Having been an announcer on 4ZZZ for 14 years, 10 of them hosting the 4ZZZ Punk Show, Chris is now a member of the Board of Directors and an advisor to the programming committee. In addition to supporting local music on the radio, Chris has been a booking agent, promoter and tour manager for over a decade bringing national bands to South East Queensland. Chris has been the guy running Fat Louie's for the last 4 years, providing a much needed venue for bands in the City. Chris is a virtual one man music industry support system helping bands with management advice, producing recordings, sound engineering and flying the flag for Brisbane strong independent punk scene.

Presenter Announcement – Stephen Booth

Presenter Announcement – Leigh Dyer

After ten years of working in corporate IT, Leigh Dyer joined the engineering team at Bandcamp in early 2011. He came to Bandcamp first as a musician, looking for somewhere convenient to host his part-time creations, and he was so impressed by it that he decided to work there, doing what he could to help others distribute their music. He works remotely from his home in Melbourne, Australia.

Leigh uses open-source tools almost exclusively to create his music. He believes that open-source has the potential to revolutionise our access to creative tools, in the same way that the web (itself building upon open-source) has revolutionised our access to media.

Presenter Announcement – Justin Edwards

Artist Announcement - Goodbye Gravity

Fusing psychedelic rock n roll with an electronic ethic, Goodbye Gravity are a new three piece Brisbane group featuring effected guitar, synth and electronic drums.

Here’s what Rave Magazine had to say about their debut performance at Gossip in May:

“With a no-nonsense approach, pure energy and honest enjoyment in their punchy electronic sound, this band play like it’s their last show – no one would know it’s only their first."

"They create a hypnotising, psychedelic sound – a more approachable Daft Punk.”

Artist Announcement – Jhonny Russell and the Mystery School

Jhonny Russell is a visual artist and musician based in Queensland. Having been the driving force behind many different musical groups over the last decade—Jhonny has been a part of around 40 indie releases—he is now focused on his solo act: Jhonny Russell and the Mystery School. A one-man show best described as a hybrid of alternative indie rock with electronic beats. The project takes a romanticised look into the world of conspiracies and esoteric knowledge. Like the Manly P. Hall of indie rock, it’s Lo-Fi-D-I-Y-electro-occult-pop music not for the profane. Adopting the work ethic and DIY mentality of real independent artists like Fugazi, The Mystery School is for those that miss that strangely comforting background buzz and tape hiss of old local 4-track recordings and those that think perfection sounds lame anyways.

Artist Announcement – Hannah Macklin and the Maxwells

Hannah Macklin & The Maxwells deliver smart, sassy tunes with a high risk factor - they teeter on the edge of old-school soul and new alternative pop. You’ll feel like you’ve been zapped into the past to a rowdy blues bar hotspot, or an underground funk club surrounded by a cloudy haze, or a 50s-style diner doing the lindy-hop on checkered floorboards. Then snap! Mod turns to ultra-modern, and you’re thrust into the future. Unique songwriting, wacky riffs and clever, poetic lyrics are all hip to the music of today, and beyond. “That perfect blend of old and new comes together like peanut butter and honey on toast.” (Scene Magazine.)