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17/08/02
- Last Rights win Leopold Battle of the Bands!
Today the boys won Leopold
Battle of the Bands Senior Section for the second year in a row and the Overall
Section for the first time. The boys pick up a free days recording at Studio 52,
Melbourne.
16/07/02
- Last Rights new CD!
Over nine days, starting from
the 7th of August, a six-track EP was successfully recorded at Back Beach
Studios in Rye. The CD was engineered and co-produced by Theron Renison and will
be released to co-inside with the end of the school year. More details to
follows soon.
04/07/02
- Rock Fest 2002 Review!
Thanks to Michael Scott for
this review. Check it out in the Articles
Section.
20/05/02
- Vote for Last Rights on K-ROCK!
Thanks to all the great
people who voted for the acoustic version of Reason on K-Rock, which is
currently being played on the dirty thirty. Keep the votes coming!
15/05/02
- Last Rights on K-ROCK!
The guys will be on K-Rock
tommorow night, Thurdsday, at 7:30 p.m. The word on the street is that they will
be playing a special acoustic version of their newest song, Reason. It looks
like they will also be having an interview with the DJ Chris Miller so keep your
ears posted.
12/05/02
- Last Rights win best song!
On an amazing night at
Rockfest Battle of the Bands 2002, the Arena, the boys won best song for Reason,
which was played for the first time. The boys also came runner-up for best band.
This means you will being hearing LR on K-Rock's Dirty Thirty program in the
coming future. Will keep you posted! Special congratulations to best band,
Krysys and all the bands for a top night of local talent. Big thanks go to all
the organisers, especially Peter Cannon, for all their hard work.
02/05/2002-
Last Rights want to see you at the Arena!
As you know Last
Rights will be contesting in the Rockfest 2002 Battle of the Bands - to find
Geelong's best contemporary rock school band, at the Arena. We want to see you
and all your friends come out and support the local music scene. So if you
haven't got your $10 tickets yet, you can see your school office, contact us, or
purchase them on the night. See you there!
12/04/2002-
Last Rights New CD!
Last Rights will be recording
a professional six track EP over the winter holidays at Back Beach Recording
Studios in Rye. The recording will take place over a week and will be mastered
and duplicated following the recording. Most track details of the recording will
be kept confidential till it's release in late November/early December, which
will co-inside with a New Website and Merchandise arrangement.
Last Rights will also be recording for the Music From the Garage compilation CD in the coming weeks. M.F.T.G is a recording opportunity for local youth bands and will probably feature 2 Last Rights songs. We'll keep you posted!
24/02/2002-
Last Rights take out 3rd prize!
Last Rights picked up 3rd prize in the Bank
of Melbourne Alfresco Battle of the Bands today! Last Rights congratulate the
winners, Clone 8 and second place, Kyasmo, and all the bands for what was a
extremely high standard competition. Special thanks to the organisers,
especially Joe Sierra, the MC and band organiser.
25/12/2001-
Merry Christmas
Last Rights would like to wish all the
punters out there a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Last Rights have
taken a few weeks off gigging for the festive season, but will be back playing
in a few weeks.
6/12/2001-
Forte Mag
If you got the current issue
of Forte magazine, you will notice a quarter of a page ad for Last Rights
gigs! Also we have had our first entries to the Tablature
page.
27/11/2001-
QMF goes off!
If you missed the Queenscliff
Music Festival, you missed one of the best music festivals of all time. As well
as our boys playing, the festival included many great acts such as Billy Thorpe,
BOMBA, Jimi Hocking Band, David Helfgott and many, many more.
8/11/2001-
Last Rights at QMF!
Last Rights want to see you
at the Music Festival of the Year, Queenscliff Music Festival. With over 180
acts on nine stage, including our very own boys, this years fest is looking to
be the best ever. With Australian Rock Legend, Billy Thorpe, The Church, Ross
Wilson, Phil Manning, David "Hands" Helfgott, Richard Clapton, Archie
Roach, Spectrum, The Waifs, Things of Stone and Wood, just to name a few, you'd
be crazy not to get your hands on a ticket. Rhys' other band, Internal Offsett,
will also be playing in the Battle of the Bands on Friday night. Youth
tickets are only $30, yes $30, for the weekend, and adults $99 for the weekend.
Tickets will most likely sell out, so act quick. See you at QMF!!!!!!
14/11/2001-
Last Rights poll!
Now you can voice your opinion to the boys on
the Last Rights poll. What's your favourite Last Rights song? Every few weeks
the questions will change so make sure to bookmark the site.
9/11/2001-
Last Rights wins!
After Impressionable Minds (Battlestar
Acoustica) going to #1 in the Mp3.com.au
Acoustic charts and Open
hitting #1 in the Heavy Rock charts, the mp3's have been taken off-line for a
few days due to Mp3.com.au
streaming technical
difficulties. They will be back on line as soon as possible.
4/11/2001-
Last Rights wins!
On Saturday, Last Rights
played in the St. Mary's Fete Battle of the Bands with Random I Am, Internal
Offsett, On Parole & Lazy Boyz and yet again came through with first prize.
Second place went to Rhys's side band Internal Offsett and third prize was
awarded to On Parole. That's 3 wins out of 4 Battle of the Bands for the boys!
1/11/2001-
Last Rights on Mp3.com.au.
Last Rights have debuted on
the Mp3.com.au
Heavy Rock artists charts at #2, the Rock artists charts at #10
& the Pop/Rock charts at #38! The two downloadable songs in the music
section also rocketed. Open is #4 on the Heavy Rock charts, #14 on the Rock
charts & #33 on the Pop/Rock charts. Impressionable Minds (Battlestar
Acoustica) is #18 on the Acoustic charts. To see Last Rights go all the way to
the top, download the two Limited
Edition recordings
available ONLY on the Internet now!
17/10/2001-
Last Rights updates.
Download Last Rights MP3's
now, in the music section. A new background has been
added to every page and two more pages of photos
. Some song
guides are up, more coming soon.
1/10/2001-
Last Rights gig dates.
More dates have been
announced. So check out the upcoming gigs for
more details.
Two songs have been added to the music
page, downloadable, in mp3 format.
29/9/2001-
Last Rights CD.
A two track CD was
successfully recorded on Monday 24th and was mixed down on Friday 28th at
Lock-Up Studio's. Without guitarist Michael Maher, two songs were recorded: Open
& Impressionable Minds (Battlestar Acoustica). All are happy with the final
result, mixed and engineered by Wayne. The future of the CD is yet to be
decided, but any further info will be posted A.S.A.P.
2/9/2001- Splurge recording date confirmed.
Last Rights were recently
selected to appear on behalf of Splurge records, a project undertaken by Music
Industry Skills students at Gordon TAFE. They will be recording at Lock-Up
Studio's on September 26, as a part of a CD compilation involving a select few
(4 to be exact!) of Geelong's unsigned artists. The other bands appearing are SMiRK, The Family & Disfrenzik. Keep a look out! More details will appear on
completion of the project.