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JOHN HARLEY WESTON GETS ON CHANNEL 7 BEIJING OLYMPICS PLAYLIST - also BBC Radio play, Blue Pie & mor |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
OLYMPIC LEAP FOR QUEENSLAND BASED SINGER-SONGWRITER JOHN HARLEY WESTON
Channel 7 Television Network have included two of John Harley Weston’s songs (‘Believe In Yourself’ and ‘Waltzing Matilda’) on their 2008 Beijing Olympics playlist. That’s huge! Statistics say 5 million Australians will watch the official broadcast on Channel 7. The games will also stream online at Yahoo7 and on mobile phones via Telstra BigPond. Both songs are on John’s new album ‘Welcome Back To Reality’. We’ve extended the $10 July special offer to include August so get your copy now and see why this major tv network is taking John Harley Weston to Olympic heights. Go to http://www.johnharleyweston.com/purchase.htm
To all TV/film producers and music supervisors....many songs on John’s new album ‘Welcome Back To Reality’ are suitable for not only sporting coverage but lifestyle shows and movies etc. They have positive lyrical content and broad musical appeal. Follow links at the bottom to listen and contact us. We’d love to hear from you.
WESTON GETS A PIECE OF THE PIE
John Harley Weston is proud to announce that he’s just signed with highly regarded Blue Pie Productions in Australia. Blue Pie are a record label, digital music store, publishing house, web radio station and much more. They are a new breed of I.T. driven music industry specialists who’ve secured licensing deals with over 300 major companies including 20th Century Fox, ABC Network Australia, Columbia Tristar, Dreamworks, Coca Cola, Toyota etc. One of the more significant propositions they provide is placing their artists music in film and television. Let me tell you, as an independent artist this is near impossible to do no matter how good you are. It’s a non-exclusive deal so John is still free to sign to other labels.
After a brilliant review in the Belgian publication ‘Rootstime’ (see below) we are now talking to a European distributor that not only deliver CDs to stores but also book tours and deal with promotion in Europe.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SONGWITING CONTEST 2008
And we just heard this week - John has 14 entries (9 songs in 6 categories) that have just gone through to the 2nd round of judging at the 2008 Australian National Songwriting Contest. The next round is the top 10. Will keep you posted. John won this national contest in 2005. More at http://www.asai.org.au
GREAT REVIEW IN EUROPE:
It really has been a huge month......John’s new album just had a great review by respected European online music mag and radio station ‘Rootstime’. (Belgium). The review is in Dutch so for a few days we weren’t sure whether it was good or bad. Now we know it’s brilliant because lots of industry people in Europe are contacting us citing this review and asking for a copy of the album. Some of the words used in the review are ‘...would make Springsteen green with envy’ and of John’s version of the Aussie classic Waltzing Matilda, ‘Weston’s intimate translation has to be added to the gallery of the greatest'.
To view this article as PDF click here
http://www.johnharleyweston.com/pressarticles2008/RootstimeBelgiumReviewJuly2008.pdf
To view all articles click here and scroll down to press http://www.johnharleyweston.com/critics.htm
RADIO AIRPLAY UPDATE (NOW ON BBC)
Our list of 20 plus radio stations playlisting songs off the new album is growing.....added this month:
BBC Radio Scotland
Radio 2RDJ (Sydney, Australia)
Radio Ijsselmond (Netherlands)
For full list of stations with links to request John’s music click here http://www.johnharleyweston.com/critics.htm and scroll down to radio. We’d love fans to email every one of them.
GIGS:
Sat 2nd August
Marina Shopping Centre
Hope Island, Gold Coast
Courtyard area
Sun 10th August
The Artist Festival
Parklands, Southport, Gold Coast, Australia
John Harley Weston performs Sun 10th August 2pm
This is a gold coin donation, 3 day festival event held by Arts & CI Central
Includes music, art, sculpture, dance, theatre etc
http://www.theartist.net.au
http://www.artsandcicentral.com.au
Thanks for listening......
John Harley Weston
http://www.johnharleyweston.com
http://www.myspace.com/johnharleyweston
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