At the launch, held at Allans Billy Hyde’s flagship Melbourne store, were long time Support Act Ltd supporters as “Molly” Meldrum, Hannah Findlay (Stonefield), Ian Haug (The Church, Powderfinger), Steve Kilbey (The Church), Eric McCusker (Mondo Rock) and Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley (The Seekers).
There are ten different categories of pledges, ranging from $5 to the $25,000 Golden Nugget. See supportact.org.au/bandwagon for full details.
The $25,000 package was donated Allans Billy Hyde CEO Con Gallin. It consisted of a new Hyundai i20 Active from Melbourne City Hyundai with a $10,000 voucher for instruments from Allans Billy Hyde.
Bandwagon got off to a great start when the Golden Nugget prize was grabbed within minutes of the campaign being launched. During a live cross with Seven Network’s Sunrise, organisers got a call from Ron Creevey’s new Sydney broadcast and creative facility for the entertainment industry, The X Studio. The studio is donating the $10,000 music instrument package to Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia.
The prizes range include phone calls from rock stars on your birthday, paintings by The Church’s Steve Kilbey of the late singer Margot Smith to skype chats with music executives as Michael Chugg, John Watson, INXS’s Kirk Pengilly and members of the music media offering career advice.
The $1,000 Bumper Entertainment Wagon package includes double passes to A Day on the Green, Frontier Touring, Nine Live, Oztix, The Dainty Group and Allianz Stadium. Etihad Stadium offered two VIP season passes for the 2015 AFL seasons.
The $3,500 Songs for the Road package is the chance to work with a top producer on a track. The $10,000 A Feast with Friends is a restaurant dinner for 12 with an acoustic set from the likes of Eskimo Joe, Kasey Chambers, Marcia Hines, Hoodoo Gurus, The Church, Tim Finn, The Preatures and Sheppard.
Support Act Ltd helps musicians and music industry people who have fallen on financial bad times or face health issues. Just two examples are buying a customized sax for saxophonist Neill Duncan after he lost his left arm to cancer, or helping one time Divinyls manager Vince Lovegrove’s 16-year old daughter with living expenses after he died in a car crash two years ago.
