Hello, friends! We have moved...

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Hello, Paper-Deer readers!

Firstly, we'd like to put on our orange safety vests and lay out some orange witches hats, and redirect you all to our very new and radical (in the non-free, cancerous sense) website at www.paper-deer.com. From now on, you can get your fix on everything to do with the Melbourne live music scene from the new website. Everything you love about Paper-Deer - the band interviews, industry interviews, occasional gig reviews and F-words - has been magically transported over. Remember to change Paper-Deer's address on your favourites/bookmarks. If you like being interconnected, don't forget to join the new site's Google Connect with your Google Friend Connect with your Google, Twitter or Yahoo! Connect account. That's one thing we didn't port over to the new site.

Secondly, I'd like to thank all the musical artists who have spilled out their guts on the blog for our sadistic amusement, and to all the awesome industry folk for giving us five to dish out some tips about how it all works behind the scenes. I'd of course have to also thank the very talented Johanna Goldsmith for designing both the Blogspot background and the sketch for the new Paper-Deer website, and to Stephanie-Bowie Liew and Charles D. Roper for their wordy ways. Also, many thanks to Lix Bacskay at Weath & Hellbeing for designing such a wicked new website for Paper-Deer, and the very cool logo.

Thirdly, mucho gracias to the thousands of music lovers from all over the world who constantly flock to the blog! (Yes, only about 50% of the readers here actual hail from Melbourne.) Keep it up, but remember the new address!

Ciao,
Paige X. Cho
Editor

WELCOME: Charles D. Roper

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Paper-Deer would like to say "hi" to our newest addition to the blog's editorial team: Charles D. Roper. There's not much we can say about Charles apart from the fact that he's involved with the music scene in multiple facets, he's a little shy and that Charles may not actually be his name...

We can tell you that he is talented (if he even is male) and loves the local music scene in Melbourne. Keep reading his pieces on Paper-Deer and see if you can spot any clues that give away his identity.

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

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Paper-Deer would like to wish all its readers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans, Google fans, featured musicians and interviewed industry folk a very merry Christmas, and a totally rad 2011! Paper-Deer started mid-2010, and has managed to pick up a very decent following for an underground music blog in a few months, and would like to thank every artist and industry professional that has been interviewed for sharing some words with us. We also appreciate every re-tweet, Facebook link post and every StumbleUpon recommendation that you have all been spreading out to the interwebz.

Next year will mean bigger and better things for Paper-Deer, including more writers (contact paige.x.cho@gmail.com if you're interested in contributing), more content (including live gig photography), possibly a new-look website and hopefully more readers! So spread the word and tell your fellow music-loving friends about this 100% non-profit Melbourne music blog!

Happy holidays,
The Paper-Deer team



PS don't forget that you can now reach Paper-Deer just by punching in www.paper-deer.com into your browser!

WELCOME: Johanna Goldsmith

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It may be all about the music, and we may say it with words, but now we have the visuals to match. Paper-Deer would like to welcome our latest addition to the team with Johanna Goldsmith, a very talented graphics designer with some serious skills. Here's what our newest image wizard had to say about herself:

I’m another creative to add to the mix, however, writing isn't my forte like the other pro’s on the team. Think art, design, handmade creations, photography, creative visuals - that's me! I’m a graphic designer/artist with a degree in Fine Arts, as well as a Certificate III & IV in Visual Communication.

So after five years of study, you may wonder what I'm doing now. I’m a Freelance Designer for myself, my partner’s business ZOVA, Paper-Deer and anyone else who wants me on board. I’m also a Creative Design Consultant for music distributor Valleyarm (liaising with the lovely Paige) three days a week and the other three is spent in hospitality. I'm always looking to expand my creative folio and get more experience which I can never have enough of!

I also enjoy the social scene, going to music festivals, gigs and concerts with a few bevvies in hand. I find it’s always good to balance out the computer nerd with the social butterfly in me. After all, I’m a Gemini so I have two minds to please.

WELCOME: Stephanie-Bowie Liew

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Paper-Deer may have started out as a minuscule project of a single Melbourne music journalist who was drinking far much coffee, but it's become some little monster of a blog. Just half a year down the track, the blog has sent forth thousands of words to the world wide web, all of them completely dedicated to the glorious, marvellous and amazing Melbourne music scene, and something must've worked. This humble blog is getting crazy amounts of visitors not only from Melbourne, but from Seattle, London, Paris, San Jose, Nashville, Cairo, Stockholm, Athens, New York, Tokyo, Jakarta, Istanbul, Berlin and other exotic locations. 

It seems like the world is hungry for updates about Australia's cultural hub, so we're proud to introduce our first addition to the Paper-Deer editorial team - Stephanie-Bowie Liew, one seriously talented young writer based in Melbourne. Here she is, in a virtual nutshell:

Hey, Paper-Deers! My name is Stephanie-Bowie Liew, but that’s kind of a mouthful; mostly I just go by Bowie.  I’m currently studying a Bachelor of Journalism at Monash University. Next year is my final year! It’s too scary to think about. Ultimately, I’d love a career in music journalism. It combines two of the things I’m most passionate about into a convenient little package. I pretty much live and breathe music: playing it, listening to it, watching it being performed, writing about it and reading about it.

Of course, I do have other interests, too. I like reading books, watching TV-on-DVD and films, lurking about on social networking sites, getting coffee or tea with friends, performing acoustic covers to audiences on YouTube, collecting teacups and teapots, and taking photos of my food before eating it (don’t judge me). I have a sneaking suspicion that I wear pyjamas more often than is considered socially acceptable.

Keep your eyes peeled for this name - this wordsmith will be turning up in this blog many more times in the near future.

UPDATE ON BLOG

We have moved! Our blog is now at www.paper-deer.com. 

Hello, Paper-Deer hunters.

Just writing to apologise for the incredibly lack of activity on this blog lately. I am the sole contributor on this blog at the moment - what can I say, I'm a control freak - and started working full time in the music industry last month in the distribution sector. The bad news is that I haven't had any time recently to add new content. The good news is that I'm still writing copy as part of my job, and I actually have several interviews lined up for Paper-Deer. The other good news is that I'm intrigued by the idea of getting other writers to contribute to this blog, so hit me up if you are interested.

If you're a blog addict, you can get your fix at http://www.feedmebandboys.blogspot.com/, my non-music blog that is updated more frequently. If you have any questions about either blog, contributing or what I'm doing in the music industry, feel free to send me a message through the CONTACT section of http://www.paigexcho.com/.

Welcome, strangers...

We have moved! Our blog is now at www.paper-deer.com. 

Hello readers,

I have a confession to make: I'm an addict. Not a drug addiction or something life-destroying, but rather a delightful obsession with music.

I'm a music journalist and freelance writer based in Melbourne, and I come across a lot of bands that I get genuinely and thoroughly excited about... and then I've got no where to write about them. My editors pretty much decide what content goes into their magazines or their websites (and coverage is often proportional to advertising budget). Plus half the time I just accidentally stumble across an act's MySpace or see them play live without planning to do a review, but really can't contain myself. So instead of letting all of my excitement go to waste, I have decided to start infecting the internet with Paper-Deer (moniker courtesy of a random word generator, ily interwebz).

I'm planning on putting together band profiles, maybe venue spotlights if I can be bothered, and most definitely band interviews and upcoming gigs.

For those of you who are interested in the other work I've done, head over to my website (and my online portfolio) http://www.paigexcho.com/. If you are one of those cool peeps who tweets, follow me (@PaigeXc). My other blog with more personal stuff is http://www.feedmebandboys.blogspot.com/.

Um, goodbye for now.