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FReeZA Push Start 09-10 Winners Announced

GEELONG & SHEPPARTON BANDS TAKE OUT 2010 FREEZA PUSH START AWARDS

Geelong indie rockers The Houses have been crowned FReeZA Push Start Winner for 2010 in The Push’s annual statewide band competition, and Shepparton’s 8 Bit Love took the FReeZA Push Start APRA Songwriter Award.

The bands received their awards at The Push’s annual all ages live music festival, Push Over last Sunday 7 March, 2010 at The Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne.

Representing the Barwon region, The Houses competed against eight other bands in the Grand Final.

As FReeZA Push Start Winner for 2010, The Houses receive a recording/mixing/mastering session at Hothouse Studio with Jack the Bear, 500 CD pressings including artwork assistance by Dex Audio, and feature articles with Beat Magazine and Mp3.com.au.

The Push’s FReeZA Push Start Coordinator, Andrew Kitchen, says, “The judges were blown away by the onstage charisma and unique sound and style from The Houses, and you couldn’t help but be drawn in by their dynamic live presence.”

FReeZA Push Start Judge, Anthony Bieniak, Byrneside Music says: “It was a great competition but for me, The Houses were a clear winner - Exciting well written songs, a passionate and energetic front-woman, and a really tight band. The most exciting part though was the quirkiness - they had a very new sound. I think you'll be hearing The Houses all over triple j before too long.”

The Houses’ Lucas Skinner says: "We’re all really surprised that we won because the calibre of bands we were up against was pretty great. We always have fun performing, and this prize is just an added bonus. It's definitely going to be a motivator to get another recording down and a CD out there - we wouldn't have had the money to do it otherwise."

Shepparton’s electro-rock trio 8 Bit Love were unanimously bestowed the FReeZA Push Start APRA Songwriter Award by a panel of six music industry professionals. “With the deep bass grooves of The Presets and the sing-along choruses of Bloc Party, they played their set with charisma and confidence,” explains Andrew Kitchen. “The band fuses electronic and acoustic sounds into a shape that can best be described as electronically assisted euphoria - Deserving winners from a determined band.”

Check out more from The Houses and 8 Bit Love online.

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FReeZA Push Start 09-10 Sponsors

FReeZA Push Start is supported by Dex Audio, Hot House, Hurley, APRA/AMCOS, MP3.com.au, Beat Magazine, Jack the Bear, Db Audio.

FReeZA Push Start 09-10 Prizes

All Grand Finalists Receive:
1 x clothing pack supplied by Hurley
1 x band profile on the FReeZA Push Start page for 2 months before Grand Final
1 x live video clip (from the Grand Final) edited, mixed and hosted on The Push Inc Myspace page

APRA Songwriter's Award:
A prize awarded by the judges to one of the bands who compete at the FReeZA Push Start Grand Final
1 x APRA Songwriter's Certificate supplied by APRA
1 x collection of music industry books, to the value of $150.00 supplied by APRA

FReeZA Push Start Winner:
1 x day of recording/mixing supplied by Hothouse Studio
1 x mastering of the Hothouse Studio recording supplied by Jack the Bear's Deluxe Mastering
1 x pressing (500 copies) and artwork assistance supplied by Dex Audio
1 x feature article in Beat magazine supplied by Beat magazine
1 x feature article/interview on Mp3.com.au supplied by Destra Corp

FReeZA Push Start 09-10 Regional Final Wrap

A big congratulations to all of the bands that have won through to compete the Grand Final at Push Over on March 7 - the stage is set for an amazing event.

Throughout the competitioin, there were a great array of music genres and styles represented, and we can't wait to see all of these great bands perform back-to-back at Push Over Festival 2010.

Each year we're more impressed with the quality and maturity of the participating bands and this couldn't be more true with this year's finalists.

There was a marked increase in the amount of energy, stage-craft, confidence and musician-ship for all of the competing bands - and this year was the first year that we gave a band 58/60!

Thank you to ALL of the 276 band that competed this year! We hope that your involvement in FReeZA Push Start has given you the impetus to rehearse harder, sing stronger, play your instruments tighter and write better and more original song.

Here's the all-important list of FReeZA Push Start Regional Final Winners that will be playing at the Grand Final at Push Over Festival 2010. Get along to support your favourite bands!

Congratulations to:

8 Bit Love (Northern Country)
Arrowfield (Gippsland)
Ayera (Hume)
Barking Sparrows (Mallee Wimmera)
Masketta Fall (Western Metropolitan)
Sheer Abandon (Eastern Metropolitan)
The Cactus Channel (Northern Metropolitan)
The Houses (Barwon South West)
Vixia (Southern Metropolitan)

Other bands that deserve a special mention are:

The Thieving Gypsies - a band that blended sounds of The Tea Party, Soundgarden, The Grateful Dead and The Doors! Great work lads.

The Boo Hoo Hoo's - a great pop band that paid special attention to space and groove. Very easy 'indie' listening.

Rosetta Stone - a great goth-metal band that were incredibly busy musically, but were "oh so tight". Well done guys.

Orpheus - a fantastic metal band with the right look, sound, vibe, vocals, fanbase, gear, connections etc ... watch this space.

Jasmine Eyes - a very enjoyable pop band with character, spunk, melody and attitude. Excellent band.

May April March in August - a solid and interesting hardcore band that had more energy than the Duracell factory.

Smokin' Aces - the youngest competitors I have seen for several years. Brilliant musicians, very entertaining and a tight band. ACDC would be proud.

Samson - a really interesting post-pop / indie band that writhed and cavorted their way through their captivating set.

Executor - played classic metal. And they played it really well. Excellent to watch and talented beyond their years.

The Rocking Horse - a really interesting and quirky pop/rock band that had me greatly intrigued. Really diverse musically and catchy as Hell.

All of these bands showed a great commitment to songwriting, originality, accuracy and most of all ... entertainment.

Watch these guys - greatness mingles among them.

Check out the photo gallery for some of the best bits from the Regional Finals and read the event reviews on FReeZA!

FReeZA Push Start Regional Finals 09

Barwon South West

Host Committee: Lac & Co
Event Date: Saturday the 3rd of October, 2009
Venue: Colac Otway Performing Arts Centre, Colac
WINNING BAND: The Houses
Headlining band: Dash and Will
Competing bands:
Chaotic Crusade
Soul Traders
The Eastern Front
Vicious Fish

The Houses in a blur


The Houses and FReeZA Push Start Coordinator, Andrew Kitchen


The Lac & Co FReeZA Committee (Photography by Vicki Jeffreys)

Check out more photos here
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Western Metropolitan

2 Days Previous
2econds
50 Bullets 1 Shield
7th Page
8 Bit Love
A Fate Worse Than Death
A Legion Defiled
A Sleepless Melody
Admit One
Advance to Go
After Dinner Payback
All or Nothing
Amega
And I Swear It’s The Last Time
Angela Robinson
Angels Voice Band
Anna Chalmers
Another Tragic Hero
Any minute now
Applikator
Arcade Bass
As Ember Burns
Astral Flight
Audio Reflex
Avelin
Avenstar
Bad Boys
Band X
Barking Sparrows
Bastion
Beas Window
Bionikus
Black Water Riff
Blood Stained Conscience
Blow
Blue Flame
Boxty
Break the Silence
Breathe Their Last
Brighter At Night
California Rise
Call it Conspiracy
Calvin Leung
Carpe Diem
Change your Ways
Chaos Unleashed
Chaotic Crusade
Chase Nation
Chelsea Won’t Jump
Choke On It
Cold Custard
Common Ground
Consumed
Crude Agenda
D.B. Caulfield
Dark Adaption
Daydream Pioneers
Dean French
Defective Trigger
Dial M For Murder
Disgorged Blustery
Distressed Infants Society
Don’t Look Back
Doods of Lightening
Draw Four
Dream On, Dreamer (Photograph: Nicole Goodwin)

Drumming Energy
Dynon Road
Elaine Avenue
Elysa Avenue
Empire In Peril
End of Empire
Every Second Chance
Executor
Exit Era
Fall Of Autumn Skies
Falling On fire
Falls of Halladale
Farewell Alice
Fashioned Red
Final Affliction
Flesh Decay
For Our Hero
Forbidden Truth
Forgotten Assault
Friends to Enemies
Georgia Fisher
Giants!
Grace and Juliet
Hang The Jury
Happy Accidents
Harvest of Humanity
Head Wrong
Helix
Heroes Dawn
Hex I Bex
Higher Authority
Hollow Everdaze
Horror Without Meaning
Human Jack
I Sleep You Dance
Idnet
Igloo
Ill Omen
Incarnate
Influence
Interruption
Into Delirium
Jack Spokes
Jerome Knappett
Jess Elder
Joel Parnell
Less Than 33
Ligfaerd
Limb
Little Lady
Lloyd Dodsworth
Lunacy Pact
M.U.Y.A
Mad Dash and The Hyphenators
March April May in August
Masketta Falls
Massacre on the 13th Floor
McGavin
Meet us at midnight
Mersey
Milestone
Mimosa Dolls
My Lazy Sundays
New Born Heroes
Nexis
Noble Allies
October Powder
Of Kings and Men
On the side
Orpheus
Out of Place
Palpate
Pandemonium
Paperface
People of the sun
Perception and Reality
Pete & Evan
Pioneers Of Good Science
Plan The Escape
Prelude to Doomsday
Qlayeface
Rise Electric
Risk of Electric Shock
RockNHorse
Rocktaprong
Rosencrants
Rosetta Stone
Samson
Scott Bell and the Reasons Why
Selenium
Shock Therapy (Photographer: Jonty Rools)

Smokin Aces
Snayle
Social Disaster
Social Impakt
Soul Traders
Southern SOHO
Starkers on Linacre
State of Severance
Stealing Skies
Steelar
Stole My Cheque
Stop Staring
Stranger Danger
Striving Sky
Summer Of Betrayal
Teabagging Sensations
Temporal Logic
The Boo Hoo Hoo's
The Brass Monkeys
The Cactus Channel
The Charades
The Colliders
The Deep End
The Dreamcatchers
The Drunken Kerrs
The Eastern Front
The Electric Stranger
The Endeavour
The Faux
The Green Knights
The Houses
The Howl
The Kalaharis
The Killing Road
The Latonas
The Lesson Of Her Death
The Lost Boys
The Lukas Vassey
The Palmer Brothers
The Polyesters
The Rocket Away
The Runaways
The Siege On Vienna
The Static fuses
The Sweet Kicks
The Sweets
The Vials
The Way With Tragedy
The Wild Lounge
These City Secrets
Theus
Third Day Falling
This Flight Tonight
Three Last Words
Tomaki Jets
Triumphs of Oriana
Trujilo
Tumble-Nerf
Two Cone Tyrone
Unsafe Thort
UNSKOOLED
Vixia
Volts Unearthed
While The City Sleeps
Wild Nite
With Wings!
Within Every City
World At A Glance
ZFX

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