Hola!

Howdy, and welcome to the very first post of the blog from Australia’s first and only independant A&R consultancy firm, The A&R Department.

We’ve been around in ‘beta mode’ since 2007, when Matt O’Connor left his job as A&R Director of Warner Music Australia, deciding that his goals were more aligned with developing and assisting the multitude of independant Australian artists than they were working in the often creativity-limiting major label system.

The last few years have been spent defining the most highly-sought after services for independant musicians, and in the process working with such industry stalwarts and luminaries as Faker, The Fumes, Ash Grunwald, The Beautiful Girls, Shihad, The Protectors, Magic Dirt and J-Wess, as well as producers Magoo, Jim Diamond and Paul McKercher.

We’re now officially ready to assist in a complete artist takeover of the Australian airwaves, and invite you to visit our freshly-launched site at www.theaandrdepartment.com to check out our services, package deals, or just get in touch for a chat about music on general – we spend all day talking about it, playing it, writing it, producing it, marketing it, profiling it and living it, don’t hesitate to drop us a line with links to your own music or that which you think is cool.

We’ll be using this blog to wax lyrical about what we do, who we’re listening to and working with, what we’re enjoying et al, and you’ll likely find the occasional guest posts, tips and tricks by some of Australia’s and the world’s most interesting musicians and industry types.

Stay tuned, and we hope to meet you soon!

Cheers,

Matt, James, Steve & Mia.

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