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WED 27th DEC
BUS TIMES ANNOUNCED

BEATS ON THE BEACH BUS SERVICE

ROUTE 1.
BYRON BAY – LENNOX HEAD – BALLINA (Festival Site)

Buses can be hailed along the route - please signal the bus clearly.

Buses will DEPART Beats on the Beach 8.15pm 10.00pm back to Lennox Head & Byron Bay at : 8.30pm 10.15pm 8.45pm 10.30pm 9.00pm 10.45pm 9.15pm 11.00pm 9.30pm 11.15pm.

Fares to/ from Byron Bay / Suffolk Park are $10 flat fare each way.
Fares to / from Lennox Head are $5 flat fare each way.

Bus services will be running between Byron Bay, Lismore and Ballina (Beats on the Beach Site), from 10am on Monday 1st of Jan. A Small fare will apply depending on where your traveling from.

ROUTE 2.
LISMORE – ALSTONEVILLE – BALLINA

Buses can be hailed along the route - please signal the bus clearly.

Buses will DEPART Beats on the Beach at 9.30pm, back to Lismore & Alstonville at 10.15pm.

Fares to/ from Lismore / Alstonville are $10 flat fare each way.

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FRI 22nd DEC
10 SUI AUS TOUR CANCELLED

Due to uncontrollable circumstances, 10 Sui’s Australian tour has been postponed until early 2007. 10 Sui is as disappointed with the development as we are, and we apologise to any fans for the disappointed.

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FRI 1st DEC
NEW 3RD STAGE ADDED!
LOCAL DJS AND ELECTRONIC LIVE ACTS!

Due to high-ticket sales and the need for a third area, BOTB has added a third stage, the Eastcape Dance Space, featuring local electronic music acts and djs.

EASTCAPE DANCE SPACE
Move to the sounds of Australia’s most eastern tip, ranging from club land to warehouse rave to the infamous local forest party scene.

Eastcape Dance Space: set in a little forest glade, with décor art, roving performers, a bar and market stalls. Tune into the groove of the local region’s diverse dance floor styles, including electro, tech, house, acid, grime, hip hop, r’nb, breaks, funk-punk and tuff-disco. Featuring established and emergent acts from Ballina to Byron and beyond (a-z);

CAPTAIN KAINE
DAVE C
E.V.P. (live)
FLYNN ‘N’ CLEGS
JET MORE
KRISTIN
M-PHONIK
POB
SEAN CANDY

+ INTERACT Performance
+ TERRASPATIAL Décor

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THURS 30th NOV
SPECTACLE ART - INSTALLATION ART ADDED!

Spectacle Art
Spectacle Art is a Byron Bay based art installation company that specialises in producing mind blowing visuals and decor at events and festivals. Spectacle Art has created light, installation and visuals for Beyond The Brain, Happy Valley, Woodford Folk Festival, Splendour In The Grass and Brisbane’s upcoming event, The Big Bang festival. This year at Beats On The Beach, Spectacle Art is installing the extraordinary stars and spectacular obelisks that you’ll find surrounding the Rockit Stage.

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TUES 28th NOV
3 NEW ACTS FOR FRACTURED STAGE

Added to the already massive Fractured stage lineup are:

Mission Ignition
A seven piece with a huge underground sound and an overwhelming earthy feel Mission Ignition are a heavy-weight band with a very unique flavour and loads of experience in rocking a crowd. Live credits include a killer opening set for and mammoth after-party jam with Fat Freddy’s Drop, dual live/soundsystem sets at Exodus, a ridiculous body-painted Lily World set at the Big Day Out, waking up the assembled crowd on sundown at the Gathering Festival, and turning Splendour in the Grass on it’s head. Mission Ignition are currently in the studio recording a bunch of tracks of which they’ll release a single as soon as Summer’s set in.

Raz Bin Sam & The Lion I Band
Spreading the Israelite truth internationally through original roots and culture music, Raz Bin Sam is the front man of the 5 piece tough and hard hitting, original ragga/reggae band “Lion I”. The band uses a combination of roots, ragga and middle eastern rhythms and are quickly being recognised as guaranteed crowd pullers. They have billed at numerous festivals including Exodus and Splendour in the Grass 06 and played with international artists such as ragga/dancehall star Tippa Irie. Look out for the release of the band’s latest album “Jerusalem is calling” currently being recorded in Byron Bay, available in shops January 2007!

Basek & Sadlik
Basek & Sadlik are the backbone of the junkbeats sound, combining on stage a diverse range of music together with live musicians from the junkbeats collective. Basek & Sadlik have performed and produced together for well over a decade their unique sound combined with their extensive performance experience guarantees a set full of live energy and awesome underground tunes. Both independently and under the junkbeats moniker, the duo boast a discography the length of Chile!

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FRI 24th NOV
LOCAL BAND COMP WINNERS TO PLAY ON ROCK STAGE
CONGRATULATIONS: TENTATIVE & GUST OF GRAVITY

In association with The Ballina 2006 Rivafest, Beats On The Beach organisers conducted a huge local band comp last weekend. Held @ The Kingsford Smith Amphitheatre, opposite the BOTB festival site, 12 bands from all across the Northern Rivers battled it out for the two highly coveted ‘local band’ spots set aside for The Rockit mainstage at this years Beats On The Beach festival. BOTB organizers Chris Mitchell and Sam Speaight personally judged the competition.

Congratulations go to winning bands Gust Of Gravity and Tentative who will now join Pete Murray, End of Fashion, Sick Puppies, Karnivool, Van She, Bodyjar, Wolf & Cub, Red Riders, Avalon Drive, Bourbon Street, National Pornographic on the The Rockit Stage @ Beats On The Beach - New Years Day 2007 @ Kingsford Smith Park in Ballina, NSW. Gust Of Gravity and Tentative had this to say about the competition and opportunity to perform at BOTB;

"We always think it’s great to live in an area that despite often going unlooked in the national eye, has such a high level of talent with so many awesome bands coming from here. That’s what was so fantastic about last week’s Rivafest in Ballina, it gave all these local bands a venue to be able to show everyone what they can do. The opportunity to get out there and get this level of exposure in the area is always good and the incentive of the opportunity to play with some of the cream of the Australian industry (especially for us, those Western Australian lads known as Karnivool) is fantastic.

The competition last weekend went really smoothly for all involved and to be given the invitation to play at a major national festival is not only a dream come true for Tentative but an experience we won’t forget any time soon. We’re beyond stoked and can’t wait till New Years’ Day."

Todd Robinson - Tentative
“We were really happy to hear that we would be playing at Beats on the Beach. The band comp seemed like a great way to choose some bands from the region. We feel like the local representatives for the area, and we are proud of that. There is an enormous amount of talent in this area, as was shown at the comp, but it’s hard to find gigs for a lot of the bands. Events like this are great for the community; there should be more in regional areas because it gives local bands and punters a chance to showcase their creativity.

It is a great honor to be invited to play this festival. We finally feel that our ‘different’ style of rock music is becoming more accepted, also making us glad that originality is not being overlooked.”

Jesse Carroll – Gust Of Gravity
In other Beats On The Beach news, 3 artists performing on the Beats On The Beach Fractured (Dance) Stage are to have previously unreleased live sets featured on JJJ’s ‘The Club’ Fri Dec 22nd – stay tuned for details.