FED SQUARE JOINS FORCES WITH MUSIC INDUSTRY FOR KICK STARTING COMPETITION WORTH $100,000 

FED LIVE, Fed Square’s music competition for Victorian based emerging musicians, saw an impressive array of music video submissions from Victorian artists last month.

The entries were mind-blowingly good and shortlisting was difficult. But, thanks to a hand-picked panel of judges from music heavyweights MTV, Melbourne Music Week, DITTO Music and the Mushroom Group, the Top 10 songs for FED LIVE are in. Now it’s your turn – general public get to vote on their favourite music video.

The finalists are:

• Dumb Whales
• Frank James
• Jessie Hillel
• Keaper
• MDMC
• RARIA
• Taylah Carroll
• Tig Lieschke
• Xyla Haigh
• Cuppa Shred

Listen to the Top 10 and vote for your favourite! /events/fed-live

One lucky artist will be crowned the winner and receive $100,000 worth of career-kickstarting prizes, and just for voting we’ll give one lucky duck a cool thousand bucks.

Voting closes 7 December. The overall winner will be announced 8 December.

Background:

FED LIVE, a music competition for Victorian based emerging musicians, will see an artist or band win a prize valued at $100,000.

From 19 October to 15 November 2020*, Fed Square accepted music video submissions from emerging Victorian artists of any genre who want to show off their talents..

An industry panel shortlisted 10 music videos, which are now profiled on fedsquare.com during a public voting period. The winner will be announced on 8 December and receive the extraordinary, money-can’t-buy prize package, which includes:

• A 30-minute concert at Fed Square’s Deakin Edge theatre, presented by Fed Square as part of Melbourne Music Week, to be livestreamed on fedsquare.com and the Digital Façade (the famous Big Screen overlooking Fed Square) on Saturday 19 December at 8pm.
• 3 x exclusive, 30-minute career mentoring sessions with an A&R representative from Reclusive Records/Mushroom Group.
• A tailored publicity and radio campaign with Ditto Music, as well as a potential distribution deal which includes pitching to Spotify, Apple Music and other DSP curated playlists.
• An artist feature editorial on mtv.com.au.
• MTV playlist addition on one of three music channels, MTV Hits, Club MTV or MTV Classic (winning artists genre dependent) on Foxtel and Fetch.
• A featured hero frontpage on fedsquare.com.
• The winning music video featured and played on the Fed Square Digital Façade daily throughout next December and January.
• An interview on Anything But Square, the Fed Square podcast.
• $5,000 cash

In addition, all members of the public who vote for their favourite videos will go into the running to win $1,000 – one winner will be picked at random on 7 December*.

FED LIVE is made possible with thanks to MTV, Melbourne Music Week, DITTO Music and the Mushroom Group.

More information can be found at /events/fed-live

For further information or media enquiries, please contact Asha Holmes Publicity: Asha Holmes | asha@ashaholmespublicity.com.au | 0403 274 299