Local Is Better

After a long weekend of hard partying with my awesomely awesome friends, I woke up on Sunday at 3pm. Nice. 

Friday night I hit up The Assembly for the "Do Work Records" launch. What an epic night. Expect big things from them concerning the local dance scene. Saturday night I went to Affinity in Claremont for my dear friend Bianca's birthday celebrations. Let's just say you won't see me in Claremont anytime soon. It was Affinity's "Grand Reopening" and Hyphen played, whose set I enjoyed. But "grand"... ya right.

Wait... let's get to the point of this blogpost. On Sunday, after having a pretty good sleep and lunch, I thought;"What now? What am I going to do with myself?" Then I decided "Let's download some local music off Soundcloud" and that's just what I did. I'm so happy that I did. The local scene is on fire at the moment. I might just stop listening to music that is coming at us from America and Europe. We have enough talent right here on our shores! I love finding new music to listen to. I went on to download music of bands that I have heard of, but never actually listened to or seen perform yet. Such as: The Oxygen Thieves, Beach Party, Gateway Drugs, Black Market Riots and The Very Wicked. So i'll spend my week listening to some awesome local music. 

I was pretty happy when I got this response from Black Market Riots manager and two of the band members, when I tweeted that I had just downloaded their music. 

This just proves how appreciative our local bands are when you download or purchase their music. Personally I feel putting up music on Soundcloud could prove very rewarding to bands. Fans will be able to get a taste of what future albums will sound like and also hearing people sing lyrics back to you at concerts must be a pretty great feeling for the band. More and more artists are putting their music up for free download, even if it is just one or two songs. This is very good, it will only strengthen the local industry. 

The Oxygen Thieves, Beach Party, Gateway Drugs, Black Market Riots and The Very Wicked are going to be my soundtrack for this week and I suggest you go download their music too. 

@TheO2Thieves 

@ILOVEBEACHPARTY

@GATEWAY_DRUGS

@bmrband

@TheVeryWicked

xx