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| OzProg Newsletter #002 - March 2008 | |
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THE SECOND COMING Welcome to issue number two of the OzProg Newsletter. As a signed-up member to our newsletter you will now receive monthly updates of what's happening on our website as well as special exclusive content - this edition we have a full-text transcript of our interview with Porcupine Tree helmsman Steven Wilson, so check that out below. Don't forget to tell your friends, family members and the gimp in the basement to sign up as well - just direct them to www.ozprog.com/newsletter where they can enter their email address. WHAT'S NEW Soundwave and its line-up full of international bands has come and gone allowing us to focus on things a bit closer to home. Fans of the new breed of Aussie progressive hard rock will be stoked with the recent announcements of full national tours by both Karnivool and Cog (following The Butterfly Effect's announcement a few weeks ago), as well as the discovery that up-and-coming Melbourne prog band Sleep Parade will be supporting Porcupine Tree on their Australian tour. In addition to that, the anticipated debut EP from Sydney post-rockers sleepmakeswaves is out now - do yourself a favour and check these guys out, they're one of the best new bands to come out of Sydney in years. On OzProg, we were lucky enough to be one of the only local publications to talk to Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree ahead of their hugely anticipated maiden tour of Australia. Some tickets are still available to their string of three east coast shows, but don't wait too long! Other recent interviews include Travis Stever of Coheed and Cambria and Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish. WHAT'S COMING UP Coming up in the next few weeks we have interviews with Luke Gower (Cog), Lauren Harris (daughter of Iron Maiden's Steve) and Tobias Sammett (Avantasia), so look out for those! EXCLUSIVE - STEVEN WILSON INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT When OzProg contributing editor Andrew Saltmarsh had a chat with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, we had so much material to work with that we had to cut out almost half of it before we put it up on the website. So as a small gift to our newsletter early-adopters we've transcribed the entire conversation and put it up on the site exclusively for subscribers. To read it, go to www.ozprog.com/newsletter/steven_wilson.php and enter the email address you signed up to the newsletter with. FEATURED ARTIST - MUSHROOM GIANT We've introduced a new feature to OzProg where we can highlight some of our personal favourite local bands. First cab off the rank is Melburnian post-rockers Mushroom Giant, who prompted the following comments on the OzProg forum: "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn this shit is the beez kneez!!" - FlanThey launch their new album Kuru in Sydney on April 5th at the Excelsior with OzProg favourites sleepmakeswaves, Meniscus and Los Alamos. 
Read our review of Kuru
Listen to Mushroom Giant on MySpacePORCUPINE TREE COMPETITION Our Porcupine Tree competition is still going, where you have the chance to win a double pass to see Porcupine Tree in your city, as well as a copy of their latest album Fear Of A Blank Planet and an OzProg.com T-shirt. All you have to do is copy our Porcupine Tree banner to your website, MySpace profile, Facebook page or wherever, email the link to ptcomp@ozprog.com (subject line "Porcupine Tree Competition") and you're in the running! We also have four runner-up prizes of a copy of Fear Of A Blank Planet and an OzProg.com badge, so start posting that banner around! Here is the code:  <a href="http://www.kmwproductions.com/artist_porcupine.html"><img src="http://www.ozprog.com/promo/pt08.gif" width="460" height="80" style="width: 460px; height: 80px;" alt="Porcupine Tree in Australia 2008" title="Porcupine Tree in Australia 2008" /></a> Check out www.ozprog.com/ptcomp for more information. That's all from me for this edition. See you on the forum! Cheers! Brad |
RECENT NEWS · LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT announce tenth anniversary tour · SLEEPMAKESWAVES release debut EP · SLEEP PARADE to support PORCUPINE TREE in Oz · KARNIVOOL announce Aeons tour · COG announce east coast tour · THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT announce new tour dates · Win tickets to PORCUPINE TREE · DREAM THEATER greatest hits artwork revealed · OPETH unveils new album title and tracklisting · HORSE the band announce Australian tour RECENT REVIEWS · DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage (7/10) · Mushroom Giant - Kuru (8.5/10) · Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes (9.5/10) · Paper Champion - Paper Champion (7.5) · Dead Letter Opener - Certified Nerdcore (9) · Arcane - Ashes (8.5) · Kaki King @ Brisbane · Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (9.5) · Oceansize - Frames (7.5) OZPROG ELSEWHERE · Check out our MySpace profile. · Become a fan of OzProg on Facebook! |
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