MRA’s very own Raymond Tanielu’s music hits foxtel – check it out!!!

For those of you with Foxtel check out MC Rae’s (Music Rocks Ensemble Director – Raymond Tanielu) music playing on Fox 8 – his cool grooves are being used in the month of March for advertising the programming and you get to hear ‘Free’ the first single all the time… MC Rae’s songs are also currently being featured  on Triple J – all of the tracks have been created on the Music Rocks Hip Hop gear that all our Hip hop students will be using in 2011 – for those of you who have Ray as their Ensemble Director this year make sure you check these songs out – he will also have plenty of advice and stories to help you get your music out there too… It’s nice to have access to an awesome recording artist as his profile and famous increases… Well done Raymond!!!

Odette Mercy and her Soul Atomics Celebration

What a night the Music Rocks Australia staff had at the Ocean One Bar in Scarborough to celebrate the end of a huge year and to be a part of Odette Mercy’s recording for a new EP.

The wee hours of the morning were brought in after an awesome performance by the band with a huge thank you to Simon Montgomery, Jimmy ‘the Lips’ Murphy, Jamie Searle, Odette Mercy (the ‘mean’ side of our wonderful Ofa!!!), Zen Sith-Fusion and John ‘Nandez’ Fernandez for a great night of original soulful music, excellent pizza and beverages’, dancing and great company that included some wild stories from Rosco Dwyer, Gary Benness and Mitch Boag.

Highlights included a solo groove by Wayne Slater on the Billy Jean riff (shake those hips Wayne!) and Odette Mercy singing her way back into her man’s heart – Ofa you are amazing! – an awesome end to the Music Rocks year!!!