The roundtable was a great chance for open discussion between Indent, the council and key stakeholders of the youth music and arts industry, addressing how to increase accessibility, cultural awareness and artistic development amongst Sydney’s youth culture.

This introductory roundtable meeting will be the first in an ongoing dialogue between Indent, The City of Sydney and Sydney’s music and arts community, and will be used to influence policy and to advocate on behalf of the youth centre within the contemporary music industry.

The report is the released as part of an an annual series on the employment and education situation of young Australians. The HYPAF report demostrates two significant long-term trends-that the stability of working life for young people has steadily decreased and Australia’s economic prosperity is consistently not being passed on to many young people.

The key findings from the report include the following:

• more than one quarter of all long-term unemployed Australians are now aged 15 to 24
• since 2008, the percentage of young Australians without a job for a year or longer has almost doubled
• despite Australia’s relative economic buoyancy, teenagers in Australia have higher rates of long-term unemployment than in many other OECD countries.

The Sydney Youth Symphony is a non-for-profit organisation for young people and music teachers in Sydney.

For more information and online registration please visit www.sys.org.au.
or call our managers:
General Manager
Samuel Vella
0418 272 913

For more information head here.

Held on January 19 at The National Art School in Darlinghurst, the FBi Radio SMAC Awards (Sydney, Music Art & Culture) recognised the artists, musicians, venues, promoters and culture makers that kept Sydney’s creative heart beating in 2011.

Thanks to the peoples votes, here are your winners!

Best Visual Artist: Daniel O’Toole/EARS
Best Arts Event: Outpost
Best Collective presented by Pedestrian.TV: Dirty Shirlows
Best Live Music Act presented by Allans Music + Billy Hyde: The Jezabels
Best Major Festival presented by The Brag: Harvest
Best Music Event: Goodgod Long Birthday Nights
Best On Screen: Sam Bennetts for Act Your Age, Bluejuice
Best On Stage: Nick Coyle
Best Song: Matt Corby, ‘Brother’
Next Big Thing presented by Alberts: Matt Corby
Record Of The Year: Lanie Lane, ‘To The Horses’
Remix The City: Jurassic Lounge
Best Eats presented by The Thousands Sydney: The Dip

SMAC Of The Year: Millie Millgate

For photos and more information head here.

The successful applicant should be keen to get involved in the events and creative industries, be highly organised and a confident communicator.

While no experience in the industry is required, the applicant should possess a desired interest in all ages’ entertainment and the contemporary music industry.

Hours are flexible and negotiable per applicant but will be required from February 15 for 5 weeks – check out the position description here for more information and how to apply, and if you have any questions email meg@musicnsw.com.

Indent, the peak youth network for contemporary music and a proud project of MusicNSW, will distribute the funds in the form of Partnership Grants and the continuation of the tour in 2012. The Partnership Grants across two categories will fund all ages’ festivals, music video competitions, band nights and competitions. Indent is also reinvesting $2,500 back into the program to fund an extra team.

“The Indent project is a key skills development opportunity for any young person interested in finding out more about the music and entertainment industries.” Mr Souris said.

“From the grants, the tour and the many workshops on offer, Indent empowers young people by giving them the skills and confidence to take control of their local youth events.”

The Partnership Grants give young people the skills, resources and support to stage their own events and take control of their local all ages scene and a stage for hundreds of young bands to showcase their outstanding talents.

The tour engages young people in a professional development opportunity to work on an industry standard event and tour a professional band through regional NSW. Local teams will stage their own event in partnership with Indent and surrounding youth. The teams involved in the 2012 tour will be invited based on their previous applications under the partnership grants.

In addition to the 2012 grants, Indent will provide further assistance to young people wanting to find out more about the all ages industry through the launch of “X Festival: A Do – It – Yourself Guide To Running Music Events”, the annual Open Day mini-conference on March 9 and the continued annual workshop program.

Please see below for the list of successful grant recipients for 2012!

$5,000 Event Development Grant
Youth of Bland Shire, West Wyalong
Youth Entertainment Reference Group, Campbelltown
The Loft, Newcastle
Outback Indent, Broken Hill
Momentum, Music and Media, Bega

$2,500 Grass Roots Grant

Cowra Youth Council, Cowra
Rock the YAC Productions, Byron Bay
Coolamon Shire Youth Events Team, Coolamon
Bathurst Regional Youth Council Events Working Party, Bathurst
Mid-Western Regional Youth Council, Mudgee
Rock the Block, Hornsby
Bandwagon, Tamworth
Cessnock Youth Entertainment Committee (CYEC), Cessnock
Bondi Blitz Planning Committee, Waverly
Crankfest Youth Advisory Committee, Richmond Valley
The Ragers, Griffith
Liquidfest 2012 Committee, Queanbeyan
Unleashed, Riverstone
Artbeat, Gosford
The New What Next, Rockdale

To find out where the 2012 Indent Tour will head, sign up to the Indent Newsletter on the top right of the homepage!

We’ll be rolling out some new endeavors and opportunities from this base so keep in touch and if your in town stop by to say hey!

SYSTEM OF A DOWN / SLIPKNOT / LIMP BIZKIT / MARILYN MANSON / A DAY TO REMEMBER / BUSH / MACHINE HEAD / LAMB OF GOD / BAD RELIGION / MASTODON / TRIVIUM / ALTER BRIDGE / IN FLAMES / LOSTPROPHETS / STAIND / ANGELS & AIRWAVES / THE USED / COBRA STARSHIP / WEDNESDAY 13 / YOU ME AT SIX / DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT / COAL CHAMBER / UNEARTH / UNWRITTEN LAW / STRUNG OUT / DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL / THURSDAY / DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN / RAISED FIST / ZAKK WYLDE’S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY / SAVES THE DAY / UNDEROATH / CIRCA SURVIVE / STEEL PANTHER / THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER / KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES / MESHUGGAH / THE PRETTY RECKLESS / CATHEDRAL / SHADOWS FALL / TONIGHT ALIVE / JACK’S MANNEQUIN / FIREWORKS / ZEBRAHEAD / ENTER SHIKARI / THE SISTERS OF MERCY / FOUR YEAR STRONG / BLACK VEIL BRIDES / MADINA LAKE / FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS / HATEBREED / BIOHAZARD / MOTIONLESS IN WHITE / BREAK EVEN / HEAVEN SHALL BURN / CKY / TIMES OF GRACE / STREET DOGS / DRAGONFORCE / KVELERTAK / GOJIRA / LETLIVE / HELLYEAH / CRO-MAGS / YOUR DEMISE / KITTIE / A ROCKET TO THE MOON / THE READY SET / THE MENZINGERS / DREAM ON DREAMER / ATTACK! ATTACK! (UK) / DREDG / IN THIS MOMENT / THE SMOKING HEARTS / THE SUMMER SET / THE CAB / BLACK TIDE / HYRO DA HERO / HOLY GRAIL / RELIENT K / VERSAEMERGE / THESE KIDS WEAR CROWNS / CONDITIONS / HEROES FOR HIRE / KILL HANNAH / CHIMAIRA / WATAIN / THE DANGEROUS SUMMER / ROYAL REPUBLIC / I AM THE AVALANCHE / FRAMING HANLEY / RIVER CITY EXTENSION / TURISAS / CHERRI BOMB

SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL VENUES AND DATES
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012
SATURDAY 25 BRISBANE, RNA SHOWGROUNDS ***SOLD OUT***
SUNDAY 26 SYDNEY, SHOWGROUND
FRIDAY 2 MELBOURNE, SHOWGROUNDS ***SOLD OUT***
SATURDAY 3 ADELAIDE, BONYTHON PARK
MONDAY 5 PERTH, CLAREMONT SHOWGROUNDS

General Public tickets on sale now through http://tickets.soundwavefestival.com, www.oztix.com.au & Oztix outlets &www.ticketek.com.au 132 849

*All shows are licensed and all ages
*Venue and lineup subject to change

44th Sunset were amongst five national finalists to perform before a crowd of 200 invited guests and a panel of industry judges at Sydney’s The Lair at the Metro Theatre last Sunday night.

Judge Glen Matthews, COO and co-founder of MySchoolAct said it was Thompson’s charisma which lead to the win. “The front man for 44^th Sunset was unique, he was engaging with the audience and he lifted the crowd to a new height with his performance,” said Matthews.

In addition, all five finalists will perform next year’s Big Day Out in their hometown with Southport State School’s Double Lined Minority playing Gold Coast; Sons of Alamo of Central Coast Grammar School playing Sydney; Bundoora Secondary College’s Let’s Not Pretend playing the Melbourne festival and Love Cream from Unley High School performing the Adelaide Big Day Out.

For more information, head here.