Got What it takes to Rock the schools

GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO ROCK THE SCHOOLS?

Boost Mobile Rock The Schools, powered by Schwarzkopf Taft FULL ON and LIVE Colour will launch their inaugural "MySpace and Boost Mobile Rock WA" competition worth over $30,000 on 1 May 2008!

A joint initiative from Boost Mobile and MySpace.com, this amazing national competition gives one very lucky band the chance to perform in front of thousands of screaming secondary school students and impart their experience and knowledge of the music industry.

Highly regarded in the music industry as a vital launching pad for young bands, the tour this year received applications from over 40 bands around Australia, and internationally. The Boost Mobile Rock The Schools tour nurtures the next generation of Aussie music talent and previous bands on the tour have included ARIA Award winning Operator Please and high-energy rockers Skybombers who are just about to open for the Foo Fighters in Auckland.

The winning band will win flights and accommodation to join the Boost Mobile Rock The Schools Tour in Perth where they will play the Boost Mobile Launch gig plus a week of concerts at high schools in WA in August.

Bands who believe they can rock the schools need to enter through www.myspace.com/rocktheschools from Thursday 1 May - Friday 20 June with the winning band announced on Friday 11 July.

ABOUT BOOST MOBILE ROCK THE SCHOOLS POWERED BY SCHWARZKOPF TAFT FULL ON AND LIVE COLOUR TOUR 2008

The Boost Mobile Rock The Schools, powered by Schwarzkopf Taft FULL ON and LIVE Colour Tour launched its 3rd annual national tour in Brisbane on 22 April and not only gives students an education in rock 'n' roll, but also an amazing insight into the inner workings of the music business.

The Tour is fully funded by sponsorship and strategic partners and for the first time, social networking juggernaut, MySpace have also jumped on board - building a dedicated 2.0 MySpace profile housing all the information regarding the tour; including images, video updates and band tour diaries.

The daily tour program consists of a series of educational workshops on different aspects of the music industry, which is run by education partner, College of Creative Arts and Technology (CCAT) and an electrifying live performance from one of six bands (a lunchtime concert).

The Tour provides students with a new appreciation of the mechanics of putting on a live rock show and opens their eyes to the possibilities of how they could use their skills in the music industry. This is a hands-on learning experience of audio engineering, digital music production, and learning about career pathways in the music business. In the Band Workshop students have the amazing opportunity to have a Q&A session with a band they would have heard on the radio, to ask them questions about their music and what it's like to be in the music business.