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Sam McSatan

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About Me

Just your friendly local neighbourhood music industry gal and all round metal chick... ;) ..m/
A decade of working in this field and I've done everything from venue booking to radio to band photography to band management to working at record labels and promoters and touring companies and everything in between. As long as the music is good it's all good fun (even when you're in a Tarago in middle of nowhere and the band is demanding colder beer... ;P)
I have a BA Music Industry, Dip Music Bus Mgt & various certificates, all of which count for not particularly much in this industry, but hey, it's nice to be well educated anyway ;)
I'm now PR Manager of Kelli Wright Publicity - Representing the Extreme. I get to work with awesome people and awesome music, what more could you ask? ;) ..m/
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Without further ado, here is the ridiculously long and yet still incomplete list of:
Bands I've been lucky enough to work with in the past:
Tours:
Kataklysm (Canada) - KWP / Soundworks
Cephalic Carnage (US) - KWP / Soundworks
Napalm Death (UK) - KWP / Soundworks
Behemoth (Poland) - KWP / Soundworks
Blood Duster (Aus) - KWP
Nile & Decapitated (Poland / US)- KWP / Soundworks
God Forbid (US)- KWP / Soundworks
Suffocation (US) - KWP / Soundworks
Deicide (US) - KWP / Soundworks
Black Dahlia Murder (US) - KWP / Soundworks
Cannibal Corpse (US) - KWP / Soundworks
Kreator (Germany) - KWP / Scorpion
Cryptopsy (Canada) - Melb Gig Crew
Edguy (Germany) - Assistant Tour Manager
Abaddon Incarnate (Ireland) - Support Band Manager
Doro (Germany / US) - Assistant Tour Manager
Pungent Stench (Austria) - Support Band Manager
Destruction (Germany) - Assistant Tour Manager
Bands I've done record label PR for:
We at Kelli Wright Publicity are now Australian representatives for Regain Records - featuring the following awesome bands:
Dark Funeral
Thyrfing
Behemoth
Dismember
Torchbearer
Sahg
Necrophobic
Totalt Jävla Mörker
Time Requiem
Setherial
Gorgoroth
Death SS
Fall Ov Serafim
Vader
In the past, I've done label PR for:
Undercode (Croatia)
Vanishing Point (Aus)
Dungeon (Aus)
Supremacy (Aus)
Dezakrate (Aus)
+ more
Bands I've managed (with my business partner):
Matramuta
Resistica
HellMaggot
The Ninth Path
Massacademy
Revulsion

Bands I've photographed - for the band or Tilt Magazine:
Aaron Carter (US)
Madasun (UK)
Taxi Ride (Aus)
The Berzerker (Aus)
The Eternal (Aus)
Cryptal Darkness (Aus)
+ more
Bands I've booked - for festivals or venues I booked for at the time: Superjesus, 28 Days, Motorace, Testeagles, Nokturnl, 2000 Mavericks, Greedo, The Beings, Society Syncopaters, The Redresser, Ruby Doomsday, The Kill, Vaginal Carnage, Mulschlucka, Stiff Meat, Running With Scissors, Catwitch, Anarazel, Alarum, Truth Corroded, Praetorian, Bowel Mouth, Tribal Clown, Full Scale, Earth, Dreadnaught, Frankenbok, The Wolves, Hellspawn ...+ more.

My Interests

Heavy, loud, offensive music... And staying up past bed-time. ;)

I'd like to meet:

Rob Zombie! ;)

Music:

Metal: (black, death, doom, folk, thrash, etc) Dimmu Borgir , Emperor, Morbid Angel, Mayhem, Nazxul, Resistica, Abramelin, Hellspawn, Kataklysm, The Haunted, Destruction, Devin Townsend, SYL, Damaged, White Zombie , Rob Zombie, Alchemist, Dungeon, Edguy, The Berzerker, Ozzy Osbourne, Anathema, The Eternal, Vanishing Point, Arcturus, Finntroll, The Ninth Path, Paradise Lost, Cathedral, Fear Factory, Dreadnaught, etc...

Old School Punk: The Sex Pistols , The Ramones, The Misfits, The Hard-Ons, Mach Pelican, etc...

Death-Rock & New Romantic: (bat cave, new wave, post-punk, goth rock, etc) The Cure , The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, New Model Army, Christian Death, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Cocteau Twins, Einstürzende Neubauten, Joy Division , New Order, Joy Disaster, Nick Cave, Lament, The Deep Eynde, Soulscape, Ikon, etc...

Rock: 90s Alterna-rock: (Hard rock, industrial-rock, general alternative, etc) Alice In Chains, Soundgarden , Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, The Tea Party, Tool, Ministry, NIN , Rammstein, Muse, Placebo, VAST, etc...
80s Rock: Billy Idol , KISS, Mötley Crüe, Warrant, ACDC, Midnight Oil, Guns n Roses, Europe, Poison, Alice Cooper, etc...
Classic Rock: The Doors , Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie , Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc...

Blues: (jazz/blues, alt-blues-rock, bluesy triphop, etc) Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Cowboy Junkies, Massive Attack, Portishead , etc...

Classical: (20th century / scores, classical, baroque, renaissance, romantic, medieval, etc) Elliot Goldenthal, Graeme Revell, Anonymous 4, Carl Orff, Verdi, Puccini , Vivaldi, Gabrieli, Allegri, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Rossini, etc...

Movies:

This is Spinal Tap!

Television:

Um, Rage?

Books:

Please Kill Me - Legs McNeil, Milk It - Jim DeRogatis, Extreme - Sharon Osbourne, Blunt - Bob Blunt, Damaged - N. Z Lord, Long Way To the Top - James Cockington

And more music business books than you could point a pointy thing at ;)

Heroes:

Sharon Osbourne

My Blog

CARCASS AUSTRALIAN TOUR OCTOBER 2008!!!

Unquestionably one of the most important , influential & well favoured metal bands of our time, CARCASS have reformed in 2008 to perform at several prestigious metal festivals throughou...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:26:00 PST

Alchemist Gigs & New Album!

Alchemist, one of Australia's most acclaimed, popular and unique metal acts; continue to push musical boundaries with their innovative blend of death metal, prog rock and psychedelic elements. ...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:38:00 PST

Marduk Aus Tour!


Posted by Sam McSatan on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:32:00 PST

Nile and Decapitated

SOUNDWORKS TOURING presents..     With guests           Having crushed Australian audiences in November 2005, one of the most innovative and extreme death m...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:53:00 PST

SLAYFEST 2007

  The countdown to SLAYFEST has begun! This touring juggernaught of Australia's finest is the brainchild of Australia's top metal promoters SOUNDWORKS. With your support, this event wil...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:28:00 PST

God Forbid!!!

SOUNDWORKS TOURING presentsGod Forbid is a thrash metal/metalcore quintet from East Brunswick, New Jersey which was formed in 1998. Building up a following in the late 1990s by touring with bands such...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:40:00 PST

Suffocation!!!

SOUNDWORKS TOURING presents  SUFFOCATION is, simply stated, one of the most influential and emulated bands in the history of extreme metal. The original crushing grind/death mixture from ..:NAMES...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:38:00 PST

The Black Dahlia Murder in Melbourne next week! :)

The Black Dahlia Murder...Playing The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, next Thursday! See you there! :) ..m/...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:49:00 PST

Anti - Cannibal Corpse WA Newspaper Article

Not sure if any of you on my MySpace friends list actually read my blog, but just in case, thought some of you may be interested in the backlash against Cannibal Corpse touring - here's a co...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:17:00 PST

Cannibal Corpse Aus Tour!

SOUNDWORKS TOURING presentsUndoubtedly one of the most controversial metal acts of all time, Cannibal Corpse finally return to Australian stages after 12 long, gore soaked years.Formed in 1988, Cannib...
Posted by Sam McSatan on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:41:00 PST