You Can Be a Star

1 July 2008

We had a great day on the Brekkie Club yesterday.

One of our listeners, Gus from Vietnam had sent in an audio file of his band, and it was pretty cool. In fact the reaction to the song was so good that it might even make it onto the Brekkie Club Top Ten.

That’s what we want. New music. We want to be more than a show that plays just the established record company offerings. We’ll still do that, but we want to help smaller musicians to get a break too.

So thanks Gus for your song.

We’re doing more than that though. Radio Australia has just started a program called Pacific Break, which encourages musicians from across the Pacific to send us their recordings, and they can win prizes. The man behind the competition is Steve Hassett, a musician of some note here in Australia, and all round good guy.

No longer will you have to hide your musical light under a bushell of self-doubt.

So whether you’re a hopeful band in the pacific, (or anywhere in the world really), send your stuff to us, and who knows?

- Phil