Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

Plans for 2010 and beyond

Happy new year to you all
I am currently drawing up plans for an improved podcast studio. It’s only on the drawing board at the moment but I have a budget in place for it already, so it will definitely happen – better set and lighting, a bit more space to run an occasional interview, [...]

Digital Pill feature article in the Age

Garry Barker  has written a feature article in the Age GREEN GUIDE about Digital Pill and the Louie Prez CD launch.

Below is some info about the new Louie Prez album with Leo Dale, Ray Pereira and Doug DeVries.
Sample the first track – The Phantom – in this youtube clip
Visit Louie Prez online here
The album tracks [...]

100,000 hits for Digital Pill

This week I’m celebrating the counter turning over 100,000 video views for Digital Pill. Its been great receiving emails from every corner of the globe and tracking all the interest inside and outside of Melbourne, Australia – where all these musicians are based.
Thanks again to all those who have contributed. The recent video from Cam [...]

Site continues while Leo is in India

I’m off to India for a little while to study yoga. Hence the ostentatious yogi pic below. My nephew said: “Now that’s Ninja.” The site will continue while I’m away as I have a few prerecorded videos in the bag, look out for the songwriting video from Joe Dolce mid September.
For anyone in Melbourne, this [...]

Louie Prez – LIVE – from the Dog Theatre – Nov 28th

On Saturday November 28th 9-10.30pm Louie Prez will be launching SCAM in a global live streaming event, broadcast from the Dog Theatre in Footscray Australia as part of the Big West Festival. In conjunction with Digital Pill and supported by Maribyrnong City Council, the trio will present music from their new album. Come to the [...]

HD posts plus a new page of stats

Two new site improvements
1. Digital Pill will now be uploading video in High Definition – see the most recent post from Dave Evans.
2. There is a new page of statistics that outline the proportion of local content in the newspapers as opposed to music from elsewhere. Its updated weekly. Its is the menu as Statistics
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Second backer for Digital Pill

Maribyrnong City Council has now also come onboard as a backer for Digital Pill. With their help and Arts Victoria we now have the funding to produce 26 posts in the 09/10 year.
The fun starts July 1st. Let me know what you want to see.
Thanks
Leo
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Digital Pill finds a backer

Today I received a letter telling me that Digital Pill has received some funding from ARTS VICTORIA for the 09/10 year. This means that the pilot phase of this site has now ended and I have some support to post once a fortnight beginning July 1st. The funding also includes money for an illustrator/graphic artist [...]

Quiet Music Festival

Hi, this is just a short note for anyone wondering when Digital Pill will be posting any more of its ideas, lessons, concerts etc. I have a great job in the first half of the year as Co-director of the Quiet Music Festival. It takes up a lot of my time. The Festival is on [...]