Surfrider Foundation have teamed up with The Great Australian Bight Alliance to organise paddle-outs across Australia. Last weekend, Kiama’s surfers paddled out in Kiama Harbour to protest and show how they feel about the proposed drilling in Australian waters.

In: “Norwegian oil company Equinor…”
Out: “…you are not welcome.”
Duration: 4:51

The Fight For The Bight

Welcome to the first episode of The Sound Escape. A weekly podcast on music and why we love it. This week we chat about Californian, indie-rock musician Dead Katz. 
He’s one of our favourite artists right now and he should be yours too. Take a break, escape and hear why.


Check Dead Katz out here!
https://deadkatz.bandcamp.com/


Dead Katz music used in the episode: 
Sunshine
Light Comes In From All Around
Waking//Interlude
Tomorrow's Only Today In A New Outfit
The Moon Seeps In Through The Cracks In The Ceiling

The Sound Escape w/ Dead Katz

The New South Wales Government is providing an allowance for young adults leaving formal care. The Transition to Independent Living Allowance (TILA) is designed to help people aged 15-25 moving away from home by giving them a payment of up to $1500. This payment will help individuals achieve care plan goals and pay for rent, education, healthcare and household objects. Making the transition easier and much more affordable for those who are eligible.



(Audio grabs from 10News & Gareth Ward's Twitter. )

The Transition to Independent Living Allowance to help young Australian adults

Local alternative-rock band Pacific Avenue, have been releasing a cover of a song every day since the start of May.

Pacific Avenue will release a song a day for all of May. So far they have released 12 covers with classics like ‘Go Your Own Way’ by Fleetwood Mac, ‘My Happiness’ by Powderfinger, as well as unique acoustic versions of ‘Going Gets Tough’ by The Growlers and The Beatles ‘Your Mother Should Know’.

“Basically so many people are at home, trying to fill that void of not being able to see live music…So we thought we may as well do a 30 day of covers” Pacific Avenue’s drummer, Dom Littrich said.

Due to COVID-19, Pacific Avenue have had to postpone a single tour and cancel a few other gigs. Impacting the band in economical ways however it has caused some positives effects.

“Coronavirus has affected us a fair bit. It pretty much cleared our whole schedule for gigs up until September… It has helped in a positive way in that people have time to listen to your stuff a bit more and spread it around.”

“It is a bit hard. Because our main sort of source of income as a band is through gigs, through performing live. It’s kind of harder to find that money to keep moving forward.”. Mr Littrich said.

Pacific Avenue have stuck together through hard times and created an alternate way to still play and release music during COVID-19. The 30 days of covers idea has allowed them to create and explore new music. By putting their own spin to each of the covers, styling old songs to fit the Pacific Avenue flavour and tweaking new songs to create a new and different version. Each day’s cover is exactly what is needed during this time while we wait for live gigs to start up again.


Catch the rest of their covers on Instagram: @ pacificavenueau or on their Facebook.



Music used : (Pacific Avenue covers)
Ocean- The John Butler Trio
Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac
Your Mother Should Know- The Beatles
Going Gets Tough- The Growlers
My Happiness- Powderfinger

30 covers in 30 days: Pacific Avenue live from isolation.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia went under nation-wide social restrictions. Since the middle of March many businesses have been closed, university courses were moved online and we were only able to leave our house for essential reasons. This song is just one perspective of how isolation was and how exciting it is to hear that restrictions are now being lifted.

Stay safe,
I'm excited to see all of your faces.

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