The Indent Ten Year Tour

MusicNSW has announced the Indent Ten Year Tour in celebration of ten years of live all-ages drug and alcohol free events. Headlined by Urthboy, the tour will work it’s way around regional NSW. Indent will be working with teams of young people (12-25 year olds) to completely manage the event!

The Indent Ten Year Tour kicks off on the 24th of September in Newcastle.

For dates and more details, head over here.

At 7.30pm on the 22nd of July, Dr Greenthumb, Ngaratya, Adam Hill, Leroy and Samson, Nadeena Dixon, RCC singers, Marlene Cummins and very special guest Emma Donovan will be featured in an acoustic night of Aboriginal songwriting at Redfern Community Centre.
 

Come along!

ABOVE: Stunna Set

BELOW: Trindoe

BELOW: The Last Kinection

Levins, Adriana (The Last Kinection’s Manager) and Nina

Heaps Decent Crew Adam, Levins and Charlie

Here are some more photos from Klub Koori last Thursday night at the Oxford Arts Factory.

Thanks to Hugh O’Brien for the amazing camera work!!

ABOVE: Trindoe performing at the Gadigal Music & Klub Koori EP Launch Night last Thursday

BELOW: Stunna Set

These photos were taken by Adam Bozzetto, we’ll have some more going up later this week, it was such a great night!

For the last 2 months I’ve been working on a new Shopfront project called At The Drive In.

It’s a crazy combination of film, performance, music, dance and multimedia all based around the themes of a zombie war and an alien invasion. So far I’ve worked on the project at Shopfront HQ in Carlton and I joined Sarah from Shopfront on one of her visits to Fairfield IEC. I’ve spent evenings covered in fake blood, created some zombie dancemoves and helped some aliens invade their principal’s office. It has been pretty damn fun!

The next few weeks sees us continue work at Shopfront, as well as some special workshops in Hazelhurst. Sarah and I will also be heading back to Miimali in Blacktown, as well as a high school in Mt Druitt. Finally we’ll heading to Broken Hill together, where the At The Drive In project will end up.

I’ll be blogging regularly about it here, but keep up to date with the whole project over at the At The Drive In blog.

- Levins

Levins and I were back in Wagga Wagga for 3 days last week in run more workshops at the Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre and the Riverina Community College. 

First off we were back at the Juvenile Justice Centre. This was only my second time to the centre and the first time I was there it was school holidays so we only had 2 classes of about 5 students each. This time was amazing because after 6 classes of around 6 students each we had made 7 different beats and many more boys, who after a little coaxing and writing assistance from Levins, who were ready to lay down some raps. In the end we had about 10 boys who contributed raps which is more than 3 times the amount we got last time I went to the centre. Not only did we record great raps but we recorded a last min acoustic guitar and singing performance from MC Icey and one of the interns at the centre Ryan. 

Because it was the end of the school session we also were able to get up in front of all the boys at their end of session assembly and show them some of the work and songs we had made at the centre. I definitely think this will mean many more boys will want to get involved next time. 

Secondly we did another session with at the Riverina Community Centre with the always awesome MC Huz and an amazing singer I was only meeting for the first time called Mandela. Mandela came to Australia as a refugee from Sudan and has been living in Australia for 4 years now. The guys at the centre have know that Mandela is an amazing singer for some time but he had never really had the confidence to record some of his own vocals. We set up a small studio in the centre and were lucky enough to have him record a beautiful verse and chorus over a beat which the guys at the center had made. Also, we can’t fail to mention an awesome short verse from MC Huz and need to thank her for giving Mandela the confidence he needed for one of his first ever recordings.

Soon we will have a huge bunch of the songs ready for listening. There is so much great stuff to get through from this trip. From the large number of raps and the acoustic guitar and singing performances from the boys at the Juvenile Justice Centre to a beautiful singing performance and raps from Mandela and MC Huz at the Community Centre. Also a big thanks to Thom for transporting us around and Mrs Agzarian for putting is up and feeding us for 3 days.

Photos and words: Adam Bozzetto

Get your tickets to Parklife here!!!

When you buy your ticket, you’ll have the opportunity to buy the Yolanda Be Cool vs DCup Parklife 2010 DJ mix, which includes two Heaps Decent tracks! All proceeds from these two tracks will go straight back to Heaps Decent. If you go for the aptly named “More Expensive Ticket”, they’ll throw in the mix for free!

Keep an eye out for who we’ll be working with for our Parklife Workshops…

Get there!