triple j vs the Brisbane Music Scene Part 2

If you count Washington as a Brisbane act, triple j had 101 Feature Albums between appearances by Brisbane artists. Those 101 Feature Albums were made up of 61 albums by overseas acts and 40 by Australian acts, with the breakdown as follows:

If you classify Washington as a Melbourne act that number increases to 113 Feature Albums between the Grates’ Hearts Won, Teeth Lost and Hungry Kids Of Hungary’s Escapades, 47 featured albums from Australian acts and 66 from overseas acts.

Since the John Steel Singers were triple j’s Feature Album in the week of 31 October 2010, there have been 28 Feature Albums, 17 from overseas acts, 11 from Australian acts. Of course those 11 don’t include anything from Brisbane, with five albums from Melbourne, three from Sydney, two from Perth and one from Townsville.

Looking at the list of Brisbane’s f15 Feature Albums over the last eight years makes for fairly depressing reading. If you’ve not got a connection to Universal, the world’s biggest major label record company, or you’re not Resin Dogs, your chances of coming from Brisbane and getting a triple j featured album are fairly slim. It’s incredible to look at the list and see Aampirellas had a featured album back in 2003. Seems very unlikely that a band like them would get the attention of triple j these days.

* I’ve included Darren Hanlon in the list although I don’t think he’s strictly a Brisbane act. He’s from Gympie but think that he might actually be based out of Sydney.

** The list also includes Washington.

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Justin Edwards is a regular contributor to Brisbane's weekly street press magazine, Rave and his photographs have also been published in Rolling Stone, Plan B magazine, Mess+Noise, the Herald-Sun and Blunt, as well as on numerous music and band websites.

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