Belfield Music

We’ve just had an exciting visit from a face we recognised straight away: The Voice top 50 contestant Aimee Hannan is booking in a long run of shows, and we’ve made sure to set her up with everything she needs to turn heads and rock some socks off.

Aimee has been turning heads and has a huge list of accolades behind her - two Barry Thornton Encouragement awards, the Capital Country Music Association, the World Star Quest and extensive training at the CMAA Country Music Academy and much, much more. She’s had a busy slew of gigs, and is showing no signs of slowing down, with her debut album and long list of upcoming gigs available on her website, aimeehannan.com.au 

If you haven’t already heard of and been impressed by her hard work and talent, definitely give her a listen!

Instgram: @aimeehannan

Facebook: Aimee Hannan Music

The All New Fender Squier Contemporary range are here, and they look great.

Squier have released a new series based on and paying tribute to the groundbreaking 80s Japanese-built ‘Contemporary Super Strat’ series, and built for heavy metal guitarists, musical acrobats, improvisational gymnasts, and other players looking for fast playability and rich, heavy tones

The range is already quite diverse, with stratocasters AND telecasters focussing on dual humbucker, active humbuckers, and ceramic single coils working with floyd rose bridges, flat 12” radius necks to race across, jumbo frets for slick, easy bending and vibrato, and dark, powerful colours like Dark Red Metallic, Black Metallic, and Pearl White.

“How many times does an angel fall?” - David Bowie, ‘Blackstar’

Blackstar Amps are rising up, and every time they do, they change, grow, and evolve, like some many-headed hydra.

Do you know what the most requested item in Blackstar Amplification’s history has been? It’s none of their award winning amps, none of the HT valve-driven pedals, or even the ridiculously amazing sounding Fly-3 battery-powered portable amps. It’s bass amplifiers. 10 years of making waves and turning heads in the guitar scene, and still what they hear the most talk about is how much the bass-playing community wants to be a part of the Blackstar movement. And it’s no surprise that when Blackstar descends from the heavens and answers their prayers, it’s changing things forever.

You’re sitting at the bar, firelight flickering across your handsome, roguish features, as you laugh and regale your comrades with the tales of your heroic derring-do;

“..and as the guards tried to follow me across the rooftop, the clumsy oaf cracked through the skylight, and sent me tumbling three stories right onto the pianist in the centre of the governor’s celebrations!”

(you pause for drama, as their eyes go wide)

“..Thankfully, I’m an expert and accomplished piano player, as well as rakish playboy philanthropist jet-setter, and the Governor’s party went off without a hitch!”

As you laugh charmingly, however, Big Eric sneers down from behind an unwashed beard, and says ‘Oh Yeah? Prove it.’

And now you can!

Close your eyes. Metaphorically. You won’t be able to read this, if you do.

Picture California, in the 60s. Fender’s California. 

The warmth of that bright, shining sun, the cool, sparkling waves - sandy beaches, green grass, bright laughter; the colours all so vivid and bright its like you could almost reach out and touch it.

Look closer - that girl on the promenade, the sun making a halo of her curls. What is that colourful guitar she’s playing? It seems familiar, from way back. Did the Beach Boys play that? I’m not sure.

Now open your eyes, and look down. Not at your lap, but at the pictures in this post. Pictures of a beautiful, colourful guitar so vivid and bright its like you could almost reach out and touch it.