INFORMATION FOR BANDS

For bands wishing to appear on this website/podcast, the easiest way to go about it is to get yourselves a gig down at the Agincourt Hotel, where we record in-house every weekend. Click through to the bookers for Fridays at Club Blink (Metal / Heavy Rock on Fridays) or Trash Saturdays (Punk / Rock / Indie).

Bands wishing to have their shows recorded elsewhere should use the comments and feedback page to contact us to arrange a crew to cover their shows.

We are also interested in showcasing your studio cut video clips in the interest of exposing as much talent that exists in the local scene as possible. Clips provided in the right format web video will be happily listed for free, clips that need to be converted by us will incur a small labour charge. For a guide to correct conversion specifications and full information on this hit the comments & feedback page and drop us a line.

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TECHNICAL INFO

- Videos are encoded with apple's h.264 quicktime codec which is one of the industry's leading video compression standards. The videos are delivered through your browser via a highly versatile flash player which allows fullscreen playback. It requires flash to be installed.

- We prefer 16:9 widescreen video aspect; it is the future of TV standards, and a much kinder aspect for both framing with the camera and processing with the eyeballs.

- All videos are mixed live at the venue, meaning that you see the performances the way they happened. No post video editing is undertaken on any of these clips unless otherwise specified.

- The sound from older videos on this website/podcast are recorded as a stereo desk mix, meaning that no post audio mixing is possible. Unfortunately due to the nature of live sound reinforcement, the desk sound does not always give an adequate representation of the room sound or how the band should sound. Newer videos will mostly contain multitracked, post mixed audio so levels on the clips will be a more acurate representation of how a band sounds. Please note that tweaking will be done on levels only, there will be no cutting and pasting, so that you hear what the band played, note for note.

- Creative use of lenses allows us to get a wide view up close of the tight stages at the Agincourt Hotel, Sydney [come check it out]. Every weekend it becomes our make shift studio for two nights of live, local entertainment at the 3 level venue. The single chip fixed DV cameras deliver SD resolution for TV and web, but as broadband gets better so too will our cameras, but the eventual goal is of course HD [High Definition], and the ability to broadcast across digital television.