Live Music
NB: 2010 festival details – 2011 details announced soon!
 Geoff Trio Code One Venue Representation – Artist Agency – Label – Festival Consultants Geoff Trio has been at the helm of Code One Entertainment with business partner Steve Griffiths for over a decade. Starting out as the proprietor of the renowned Sydney venue, The Brass Monkey, Geoff has expanded the business to include a touring agency for international and domestic artists, a development label and consultancy overseeing six venues and several key festivals in NSW.Venue Representation Code One are the sole booking agents for six highly respected live music venues in NSW.Brass Monkey (Cronulla), Notes (Newtown), Heritage Hotel (Bulli), Bizzo’s (Caringbah), Waves (Wollongong) and The Diggers (Coogee).Artist Agency Code One’s artist representation roster includes: International:Canadian stars Jeff Martin (Tea Party / Armada), Jill Barber, Hawksley Workman, Joel Plaskett, Matthew Barber, Hey Rosetta, Two Hours Traffic, Elliott Brood and Dan Mangan, as well as USA artists Folk Uke (Cathy Guthrie & Amy Nelson), Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs), Chris Barron (The Spin Doctors), Family of the Year, Steve Poltz, Gregory Page, and Greta Gertler. Australian: King Tide, The Retreat, Mick Hart, FisherKing, Dave McCormack, Johnny G and The E Types, The Sins, Stephen Cummings and Dave Graney.Label Code One has national distribution with MGM with a roster of Dead Letter Chorus, Jill Barber, Hawksley Workman, Joel Plaskett, Matthew Barber, Hey Rosetta, Steve Poltz, and Gregory Page.Festival Consulting Code One represents several highly successful festivals including Skyville, The Rising Tide, Cronulla Jazz and Shiraz Festival and has n the principal booker of the Peat’s Ridge festival since its inception.Management Geoff is also the manager ofAustralian Artists: Indie folk/rock darlings Dead Letter Chorus http://www.myspace.com/deadletterchorus Indie pop outfit The Retreat http://www.myspace.com/ilovetheretreat |
 Rhonda Roberts Dreaming Festival A member of the Bundjalung nation, Widjabul clan of Northern NSW and South East QLD, Rhoda’s involvement in the arts is extensive. Currently she is the Producer for Vibe Australia and she was the founder and Artistic Director of the annual International festival The Dreaming based at Woodford QLD, she was the Artistic Director of Sydney Dreaming Festival and the former Artistic Director of the Festival of the Dreaming staged in the lead up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Rhoda has been involved with a number of large events in varying roles including Rugby World Cup 2003, Athens handover ceremony, The opening ceremony of the Musee Du Quay Branley, Paris, Japan Expo, World youth Day events and Australia Day events. She currently hosts and develops stories for the Television health series Living Strong and continues her work in Radio with the National Music program Deadly Sounds.She was a co-founding member of Australia’s first national Aboriginal theatre company, the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (ANTT) and as an actor/producer and director, continues to work freelance as a consultant, a sought after speaker and performer in theatre, film, television and radio. She was recently commissioned to direct the Opera Miricoloa a Milanao by Giorgio Battistelli for the Brisbane Festival 2009.Rhoda is currently working as an advisor with the SPC Secretariat Pacific Communities, Based In Noumea. Her solo production Bible Boxing Love began its East Coast Tour in 2008.Well known for her work with SBS television as a journalist and presenter for the current affairs program, Vox Populi, she has also worked for Network Ten and ABC Radio as a producer and journalist. Rhoda has written and produced several documentaries, and was the first Aboriginal to host a national prime time current affairs program. In 1998 as co-writer she performed the one woman show Please Explain. She is currently completing her first novel Tullymorgan. A Sisters Love was produced and directed by Ivan Sen and features Rhoda is currently touring the film festival circuit |
John Sinclair Premier John Sinclair booked his first act in 1968, and took his first band to the U.S. in 1971. In over 40 years in contemporary music, John has managed Xavier Rudd, Weddings Parties Anything and Jeff Lang. …been the agent for Men at Wotk, Midnight Oil and INXS, and promoted Dr John, Johnny Winter and Loudan Wainwright 111. John currently consults to Premier Artists and Fleming Artists [ U.S.], represents Toni Childs and Graeme Conners, and runs Redbird Music, a label specialising in U.S. singer songwriters incl Serena Ryder and That 1 Guy. |
Peter Noble Bluesfest Peter Noble is the sole festival director for BLUESFEST held every Easter in Australia’s idyllic Byron Bay. A highly awarded and much loved international event, Bluesfest celebrates its 21st anniversary in 2010 at its new permanent home: Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, Byron Bay.Under Peter’s direction, Bluesfest has become one of the most awarded festivals in Australia. This includes the Helpmann Award for ‘Australia’s Best Contemporary Music Festival’ in 2005 and 2006, consistently being voted ‘Australia’s Best Music Festival’ in the Rhythms Magazine readers poll between 1994 and 2008 (except 1997), and picking up The International A Greener Festival Award for three years running (2007 – 2009), for outstanding long term commitment to environmental sustainability.Peter also owns and runs Aim Records, the label he founded in 1981. Aim made history in 2008, becoming the first ever Australian independent label (non-major affiliated) to win a Grammy Award for Live! Worldwide by Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience which won ‘Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album’. |
 Stephen Foster Tank Arts Centre • Program and Events Manager Tanks Arts Centre, Carnival on Collins and Festival Cairns. • Co Founder and Promoter ReggaeTown, Cairns, Far North Qld. • Co Founder and Promoter Tropical Roots and Rhythm Festival, Cairns Far North Qld 2010. • Co Founder SugarRush Records/Digital. • Board member Q-Music and Big Sound committee. |
 Alec Doomadgee Koori Radio Alec is a Waanji/Garawa man from the Aboriginal community of Doomadgee in the Gulf of Carpentaria QLD. Alec started his career in Radio in school after a visit to 4K1G in Townsville during a school trip back in 1988. This lead to Alec’s involvement in the B.R.A.C.S radio program being established in 1990, where he became an on-air announcer. He later gained entry to James Cook University in 1993, where he studied for a Diploma in Communications. Unable to complete due to family commitments in Doomadgee Alec kept his dream alive by running and operating the local community radio station. Following this period Alec gained employment in Mt Isa with the Aboriginal station MOB fm where he spent 4 years. He was also apart of the National Indigenous Radio Service Sydney Olympics broadcast in 2000. Alec then moved to Brisbane to take up a position with 989fm Murri Country as the new Breakfast announcer, known on –air as “The Bushboy”. Over the next few years Alec hosted and produced numerous shows eventually becoming the Program Manager in 2005. He has also ventured into the world of television and film starring in the short film “Joonba” in 2007 and making an appearance on the channel 9 show “The Strip” in 2008. Alec can also be seen in a new production for NITV called “On The Edge” due for release August 2009. After 7 years with 989fm in Brisbane Alec has now moved down to Sydney and is the New Program Manager at Koori Radio 93.7fm.A dad at sixteen, Alec has been a single father to his children and says that this is his Greatest achievement to date. |
