Event: Angus & Julia Stone Live in Nova’s Red Room
Date: Saturday evening, 10 August
Venue: Camperdown Commons, Sydney
Guests: 350 people – Nova listeners, industry guests and Sony Music representatives, journalists, talent
The long-running Nova Red Room delivered another memorable experience on Saturday night in Sydney. Nova listeners packed into Camperdown Commons in the Inner West for a chance to get up close to the sublime sounds of Angus & Julia Stone.
Over 300 Red Rooms
Mediaweek has a long association with Nova Red Room events, including reporting exclusively on two Nova Red Room Global Tours.
Nova reached a music milestone last month with the 300th Nova Red Room with Teddy Swims live in Melbourne on 14 July. The gifts to Nova listeners have continued since then, with a Tones and I Live Nova’s Red Room in Melbourne just last week.
It was something of a coup for Nova to secure a slot this week for the busy Sony Music duo Angus & Julia Stone. Earlier this year, they released their sixth album, Cape Forestier. In another coup for Nova back in May, Angus & Julia Stone recorded a three-song acoustic Nova Red Room session.
They have been playing dates in Europe and the US in the past couple of months. Back in Australia, Angus & Julia Stone have just finished three nights at Sydney’s State Theatre. The Red Room gig was wedged in between those dates in their hometown and shows in Melbourne.
Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa with their executive producer Tom Ivey
Nova Sydney breakfast duo Fitzy and Wippa hosted the evening, taking over the Red Room mic, which is often in the grasp of evening ratings champ Smallzy or drive music guru Tim Blackwell.
Tracks from the new Angus & Julia Stone album were featured, in addition to back catalogue favourites.
One special treat was a performance of Just a Boy, with Julia remarking, “I’ve been wanting Angus to play this song for 15 years… it’s the bane of my existence and he always says no, but he said ‘Let’s do it for Nova’s Red Room’.”
Introducing the title track from their new album, Angus said: “When we began the process of recording, you don’t really know where it’s headed and that’s the beauty of art and the art form. It’s an unexplored place that can take you anywhere.”
The set finished with their classic, Big Jet Plane. The Nova listeners pleaded for just one more thought, and were treated to a great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams.
Angus & Julia Stone Set List
Santa Monica Dream
Losing You
Yellow Brick Road
Nothing Else
Just a Boy
Cape Forestier
Wedding Song
Chateau
Big Jet Plane
Encore: Dreams
Guests at Camperdown Commons included Nova staff and clients, Sony Music’s senior director of publicity Kate Bonanno, Foxtel PR managers Diya Randall and Carla Monforte, News Corp’s Edwina McCann with Louise Bryant and friends, Nova 96.9’s workday announcer Adam Price, 96.9 breakfast producer Tom Ivey, Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel drive show newsreader Michelle Stephenson, TV host and DJ Danny Clayton, TV host and model Kate Peck, and actor Jackson Heywood.
Nova’s Adam Price
Danny Clayton
Foxtel’s Diya Randall & Carla Monforte
Nova’s Michelle Stephenson
Kate Peck