Bands At Manjimup

ROYALTIES FOR REGIONS ROCK! Brendon Grylls, Minister for Regional Development swapped a $63,484 grant cheque under the scheme against a B@M T-Shirt in mid July 2009, so we can sound proof our Boiler Room band rehearsal facility and our musos can really crank it. He's a really cool dude, too, and loves to see regional youth getting new opportunities. We're really grateful to our friends at Lotterywest, here at B@M, because they gave us a fat, juicy grant for more than $22K of new amplification and stage lighting equipment. It doesn't end there, our parent organisation also received a $8K A3 colour photocopier for glorious posters and flyers. Visiting bands will in future only need to bring talent, axes, picks and sticks - and will be playing in a storm of colour. The Office for Crime Prevention recently weighed in with a $5000 grant for two concerts run in 2008, plus two gigs in 2009. Discos for younger punters are also backed by this grant and are now a popular event in town. You should see those youngsters rock out! Manjimup Local Drug Action Group secured two $3000 STRIVE grants for B@M to keep concerts coming. Thanks, Heather and keep on rockin'! Also a big hand for our friends at WAM, who just gave us a $13,000 Rammpaage grant. Concerts and a festival are now funded until mid 2009. It doesn't stop there: West Australian Music Industry Association's Nigel Bird is doing a sterling job supporting us in his role as Regional Coordinator. He arranged the biggest regional event in the 2009 WAMi Festival for B@M and has tracked down some really big names as tutors for our Youth Musicians' Workshops in May 09. Thanks WAM! Also a big thanks goes out to the Office for Youth for funding the YouMuWos 09 with a $5000 Youth Sponsorship Grant. So far we have hosted: Silent City Frequency (twice), Insane Noise Ensemble, Electrostatik (six times), The Stratz, Ramshackle, No Remorse (three times), Christinarose, Enkounter, Brock Crombie-Wilson (twice), Greg Butcher, Opposite Enz, The Bigness, An Evening at Elmwood, Bright Lights & City Fires, This End Up, Ashoka (four times), Mark&Patrick, Laced Affair, Elora Danan (twice), Calerway, Abbe May, Sneaky Weasel Gang, Desert Radio, Fireside, Minute 36, We Are The Emergency, Elleker Hall, Amplify9 ..