Hey everyone!


Village Kid EP LAUNCH@ The Paramount 28th July Wednesday



Really excited to be supporting:

VILLAGE KID at THE PARAMOUNT, 163 James Street, Northbridge, this WEDNESDAY 28TH JULY...
Doors open 7.00pm

Featuring:
ALI TOWERS
THE JADE DIARY (in acoustic mode) at 8.30pm
VILLAGE KID (pop with soul and lots of groove)

We are selling tickets for $15 each: includes a PREMIUM DRINK + COLOURFUL GIRL EP BY VILLAGE KID.

If you'd like a ticket, please email me right now... otherwise I won't be able to mail it out to you in time for Wednesday! Please support indie musicians :)


Thirsty Merc!

For those of you not familiar with THIRSTY MERC, they are a fabulous well-known Australian band that has recently released an incredibly addictive and infectious song called Mousetrap Heart. Can't get the freakin' song out of my head!!!

Saw them last Thursday night, with ALI TOWERS and VILLAGE KID also supporting them at the Fly By Night Club. All the artists were fantastic, especially Thirsty Merc!

I got autographs from Thirsty Merc and cheeky me also passed them our Landscape of Dreams and Girl With No Name CDs! They were sweet and said they'd play them in the car... well let's hope they do :) Hope they like our music! Really nice guys :)


Closer

We just uploaded a brand new track called 'Closer' to our player... check it out!


Hope you have a great week and if you're in Perth, why don't you come down and head down to the Paramount this Wednesday!


Cheryl

Hello!


Manhattans Original Music Explosion
This Thursday 15 July!
Manhattans Bar, 243 Albany Hwy, Victoria Park WA

Playing Times:
The Jade Diary: 8:15-8:50pm
Rachel & Henry Climb a Hill: 9:10-9:45pm
The Blue Finish: 10:05-10:40pm
The Midnight Collective: 11-11:35pm

Hope you can join us! We're performing as an acoustic trio.



Supporting Village Kid - EP Launch @ The Paramount 28 July

We will be supporting Village Kid a really amazing funk-pop band that have a horn section and full ensemble. Truly fine musicians and an amazing singer, Aaron Malone. I am in awe of them, and we feel very privileged to be supporting them on 28 July at The Paramount in Northbridge. We perform at 8.30pm. Currently selling tickets for $15.

$15 includes:
Entry
Drink
'Colourful Girl' - Village Kid EP

Bargain! ;) Please be quick and email me at cheryl.lim@iinet.net.au to reserve your tickets now! It's going to be a massive show...



Pictures of our 19 June Single Launch @ The Civic Hotel



I know lots of you are overseas so couldn't make it to our single launch on 19 June ... so as a little compensation, you can go to www.fasterlouder.com.au/gallery/17317/1/The-Jade-Diary.htm to have a look at some pictures taken at the launch.



CDs

Very soon we will be raising the price of our CDs on the website, so if you'd like to get them at a discount, don't hesitate! You snooze... you lose! ;p Go to Store if you'd like to purchase some CDs!


We always love hearing from you, so feel free to email us about anything... :o)


Cheryl

Hi!


Next Big Thing Heat on Friday 2nd July, The Civic Hotel, Backroom, 981 Beaufort St, Inglewood



The Next Big Thing is a well-known Battle of the Bands style competition in Perth and was one of the ways John Butler got discovered.

Apart from songwriting, presentation, musicianship and other aspects, 10 points are scored by the judging panel for AUDIENCE RESPONSE. So WE NEED YOUR HELP!! Please come to scream for us!

If you come and make yourself known, we'll give you free 'Girl With No Name' CD singles! That's how desperate we are... heck maybe even one of us will give you a kiss! I think Jarvis would be up for that... :p !!

The line-up for the night, $10 entry, under 18s need to be accompanied by a legal guardian:

Village Kid
Trent Williams
Michael Gabriel and The Quixotics
Endora
Good Little Fox
The Jade Diary
Short Fuse

We will perform at 10:15 pm.

So pretty please be there and help us become 'the next big thing'... :)



Girl With No Name Singles for Sale now...


Have a listen to our new track, Girl With No Name, mixed and engineered by Ken Ingwersen, Eddie Dale and mastered by Rob Agostini of Soundbaker Studio. Beautiful graphic design by Anne-Alexia Louarn.

Featuring:
1. Girl With No Name
2. Closer (a beautiful love song written by Renee that I know you'll love... only available on the CD)
3. Sublime

For a limited time only, we are offering 'Girl With No Name' singles at the price of $5 (normal price $7) per CD. Also you can buy both Landscape of Dreams and Girl With No Name for the price of $12 for both (normal price $17 for both).

Click here to buy...



Our Single Launch @ The Civic Hotel 19 June


Our 'Girl With No Name' Single Launch on 19th June was fantastic! We had wonderful feedback from the crowd who really enjoyed our show and the other guests that night.

People used words like 'entertaining', 'haunting', 'professional', 'great lyrics', 'fun to watch', 'catchy melodies', and 'looked fabulous' to describe our show. Supporting acts, Sonja D'Anne, Toni Italiano and Astro were magnificent and we're honoured to play with them.


Hope to see you on the 2nd July @ The Civic Hotel, Backroom!



Cheryl on behalf of The Jade Diary

Hi!


Radio Interviews

We will be doing 3 LIVE radio interviews in the next week (Perth, Western Australian time):

Today (Friday) between 6pm - 7pm Twin Cities 89.7 FM. You can go to http://www.twincitiesfm.com.au/ to listen online for those of you who don't live in Perth!

Monday night (14 June) around 8pm 'Twilight Zone' show on Radio Fremantle 107.9 FM. Go to http://www.radiofremantle.com/index.html to listen online.

Saturday (19 June) around 2pm RTRFM 92.1. Go to http://www.rtrfm.com.au/ to have a listen!


Girl With No Name 19 June Single Launch @ The Civic Hotel

Just received the finished tracks from Rob Agostini of Soundbaker Studio who mastered them. They are sounding awesome and the artwork for the single cover is beautiful, thanks to Anne-Alexia Louarn from France, our Graphic Designer extraordinaire!

Funny how the creative forces put into this single have come from different places around the world... Norway, France and Australia. I think the CDs themselves were printed and duplicated in Hong Kong or China (?)... ! Well everything's 'made in China' these days! Heehee...

We are excited to share the single with you at our Single Launch on 19 June @ The Civic Hotel, 981 Beaufort Street, Inglewood. It's going to be a fantastic night... so don't miss out!

Guest Appearances by:
Sonja D'Anne & Toni Italiano (http://www.sonjadanne.com/)
ASTRO (http://www.myspace.com/astrotheband)

Entry: $12 with CD


The Next Big Thing Heats - We're in!

We got selected into The Next Big Thing Competition heats on 2nd July @ The Civic Hotel! Competing with Village Kid, Trent Williams, Michael Gabriel & The Quixotics, Endora, Good Little Fox and Short Fuse.


Soundcheck

Soundcheck organizers are having difficulty securing a venue for their grand Showcase show that we were requested to perform in as one of the finalists. They have informed us that they will give us at least 1 months' notice of the date and venue. So at this point in time, we are waiting to hear from them. I'm sure it will be really exciting when we finally get to Melbourne!


Happy Birthday or Gratulerer Med Dagen Renee and Eddie!

Happy Birthday or Gratulerer Med Dagen (oh Google, how did we ever live without you :) to Renee and Eddie who just had their birthday or are about to in the next week!  Spring chickens... ;)


Hope you have a really wonderful weekend... I know we will!



Cheryl on behalf of The Jade Diary

Hello,

Busy busy busy... preparing for our Single Launch, Emergenza competition heat, working on new songs, recording ... lots going on! Having fun in the process...


Emergenza

We are competing in Emergenza, an international 'battle-of the-bands' type competition where bands compete for international exposure.

28 May Friday 9pm: The Rosemount Hotel, Northbridge, Perth.

WE NEED YOUR VOTE ON THE NIGHT! The audience democratically selects all the bands going through the next rounds. The vote is open to the crowd and they vote as many times as they like for as many bands as they like.

Pre-order your tickets at our Store with us for $15 each. You'll only need a credit or debit card to purchase... no need for Paypal account if you don't have one. If you don't want to purchase it through our store online, just email me and I will gladly make other arrangements with you.

$15 includes:
- entry into the Rosemount to see us and other bands perform/compete in Emergenza
- and a LANDSCAPE OF DREAMS CD

If you pay at the door on the night it will be $20 and you won't get a CD.

You get to decide which bands stay or go... now that's power! Become Simon Cowell for a night... ;)

To show your support on the night, you can choose to wear something in your favourite shade of green (jade ;)!

Emergenza is the world's biggest festival for unsigned bands with more than 150 cities around the world.

All national winners will play at the international final in Germany. The best band in the world as voted by the jury will then get a full production, a tour, music instrument and other technical material.


New-look Website!

Our website has had a face-lift, make-over, revamp... hope you like it! Check it out: www.jadediary.com

There are also new pictures of us!


Question and Answer

We'd love to answer any questions from you about our songs, us, our favourite breakfast food, most embarrassing album purchased, pet peeve etc. So if there was a question you were burning to ask, please email us and we'll try our best to answer you here in our next e-letter to you. Bring it on baby!


Signing off,



Cheryl on behalf of The Jade Diary

Well hello everyone ...


Soundcheck

Most of you probably already know WE ARE PACKING OUR BAGS FOR MELBOURNE AND FLYING TO COMPETE IN SOUNDCHECK IN JUNE! We made it into the top 10 and so will be in the final showcase concert to compete for the grand prize of $50,000 and perform in front of industry professionals.

The date of the showcase concert is yet to be known but it will be in the first two weeks of June.


MASSIVE THANK YOU for your votes and support ... you really made a difference! We especially want to thank Gerry from the UK and his friends and family who faithfully kept us in the competition.

Many months ago, I had given up on Soundcheck. I had never won anything in my life and so assumed this would be another similar situation. As an independent musician, it's easy to give up and lose hope. And so that's what happened for me. Then last year I received a message from Gerry from the UK telling me how much he loved our music, which he had discovered on the Soundcheck website. He had read the competition instructions carefully and told me that if we get enough votes to stay in the top 10 of the Elimination chart, we would get into the winner's chart at the end and perhaps a spot in the final top 10. Gerry believed that we had a chance to make it, so he rallied support from his friends and family. And we also did the same. We made it into the winner's chart in a few months. Initially it looked like we were not going to do very well as we hovered at around no. 20 of the chart. However there was one day when we shot up to 12, then 10, then finally to no. 6. It was stunning to see ... a miracle in my eyes. We ended up at no. 7. Only the top 5 were automatically going through to the grand final showcase concert. So we had to sit and wait to see whether the judges would select us through into the grand final. Several weeks later, and just this past Thursday on the 29th of April, I was at work, when my mobile rang. I looked at the number and it had an '03' in front of it. I smiled to myself thinking... 'maybe it's Soundcheck' (because '03' means that the caller is in Melbourne). And true enough it was! The guy on the line said: "Are you Cheryl from The Jade Diary?". I said: "Yes". Then he asked: "What equipment will you need on the stage for the showcase?". We didn't even know we were in the final, and he was asking us what our tech specs were! So I asked at the end of the call: "So, does this mean we're definitely in the final?". He responded: "Yes, as far as I know, you are act no. 5 on the night".

So this is our story... full of drama, ups and downs, waiting, frustration and excitement! Life can really surprise you sometimes...


Girl With No Name

Have been really busy recording a new version of Girl With No Name as well. It was mixed by Eddie and his father, Ken Ingwersen. Ken is a well-known rock guitarist and producer in Norway. Check out his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/keningwersen The result is pretty impressive and we look forward to releasing it to you on 19 June when we have our Girl With No Name Single Launch at the Civic Hotel (supporting acts: Sonja D'Anne & Toni Italiano, and ASTRO)!


New photos and website redesign

We have had a recent glamourous photo shoot at His Majesty's Theatre and you will see more photos in the coming weeks as we re-design our website. The red room shot is one of my favourite shots from the shoot. The photos were taken by the very talented Heather Robbins of Red Images.





Cheryl and on behalf of Renee, John, Jarvis and Eddie

Wow!


No. 6 on Soundcheck as I type ...

Pretty blown away by our meteoric rise up the charts on Thursday... when I started voting in the early morning we were about no. 18. By around 11pm we climbed up to number 9!

Thank you for your votes... they mean so much to us. Please keep voting because there is still a significant gap between us and the number 5 spot where we need to be to get into the Showcase concert and win any cash prizes.

We found it interesting when the top contestant Jordan Jansen (who has 14000 votes) came to our song entry and said:

"You should seriously be in the final 10, I'm sooo sure you'll be picked to be in the Live Final, you're Amazing!!"


Here is the link to vote again:





Have a wonderful weekend!



Cheryl

Hi,

Just another manic Monday (woh-oh-oh)?



Soundcheck Competition ... Pretty Please Vote for us starting today


We have made it into the final round of the Soundcheck Competition. THANK YOU SO MUCH to all of you who have faithfully voted us into the final round!

In this final round we need you guys to VOTE DAILY up till Monday 29 March

Click the picture below to vote, and click on 5 stars each day up till Monday 29 March:



Or if that doesn't work, just click on these links below:

www.soundcheck.com.au/showEntry.do

www.soundcheck.com.au/showEntry.do


The bands or artists with the top 5 songs will be able to perform in the Showcase Concert in the Eastern States, and be watched by industry executives.

Also they will be in the running to win up to $50,000 in prizes.

So if you'd like to help us become mega rock-stars (heehee) please vote for us daily starting today!



Sellaband - Change of Target


We have changed our target fundraising amount on Sellaband to $15,000 (instead of $35,000).

Why? We have decided that our next release will be a 6-song quality EP instead of an album. Lady Gaga has released an EP (The Fame Monster), so why not us too? ....Not that we feel the need to start wearing giant shoulder pads and our underwear on the outside ;)

This means we are already 30% of the way on to meeting our target of $15,000.





Have a wonderful, fantastic week ... and thank you so much for your votes!




20 March at The Swan Hotel



John, Eddie, Renee, Cheryl and Jarvis

Hi,

This is a pretty packed email to you because a lot of dramatic things have happened since my previous letter to you...


Wanderer

It's really exciting to unveil a new video that our fan, Laura, has made for our song, Wanderer. She's done a wonderful job and included Manga images in the video (I love Manga images). To have a look please go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS3PJszejkQ

I'm sure you'll agree she did a great job!


The rise and fall and rise again of ... Sellaband

Over the past weekend, Sellaband mysteriously had a 'server maintenance' problem and so the site was not accessible for a few days. We were puzzled as to why it took so long to fix their server. Then surprising news came out that Sellaband had in actual fact filed for bankruptcy.

Some believers and artists were in panic mode because this may have meant that the efforts artists had put into raising funds on Sellaband would be completely wasted (weeks, years of their lives gone to waste) ... although I know that the funds that were invested into artists were always safe in Escrow (managed by a third party and unable to be accessed by the management or artists until an artist reaches his/her targeted funding amount). If Sellaband had gone down, believers would probably have had their funds returned to them.

But thankfully we heard news that Sellaband had actually been bought over by a German company who have a strong reputation in music marketing. The company and new CEO, Michael Bogatzki, aim to continue fostering the community of artists and believers that Sellaband had started.

Go to www.sellaband.com/jadediary/ to read a letter from the ex and new CEOs of Sellaband.

This news brought much relief to artists and believers alike. We have spent countless hours of fundraising efforts on Sellaband. If Sellaband had not been bought over, this work would have been completely wasted. So this is fantastic news!

I want to encourage you to help us make our dream of recording our first album a reality. Musicians pour their hearts and souls into their music, tirelessly gigging, creating, giving away their music. This we do for love, but it would be nice to get a little bit of money for it once in a while :) 

If you have gained any enjoyment from our music, please help make our dreams a reality and purchase 1 or more parts at www.sellaband.com/jadediary

If we do not raise the money we need for our next album, then it may probably never be heard ... and that would be a shame because we have a lot of great songs we want you guys to hear.

We are not rich. We are not supported by a major recording company. I wish we were. So this is what we have to do at the present time to help keep the music alive. So we really really need your help.


The Cottlesloe Hotel 5 March

Our next performance is at

The Cottlesloe Hotel, Friday 5 March. 8.00pm. We will be performing as an acoustic trio again. The plan was to perform as a 5 piece band, but Jarvis, our bass player has had difficulties attending rehearsals (his ankle was broken a couple of weeks back).


Heartbeat for Haiti 20 March gig

We are holding a fundraising band night at The Swan Lounge. Hope you can join us for that one. Door sales will go towards Haiti disaster relief. There will be some other cool bands playing with us that night so bring your friends along and support a great cause.

Soundcheck... 20 March voting madness!

On 20 March all of us will be voting like crazy for our songs on Soundcheck. For a week all artists who make it to the final round (it's highlly likely that we will be in the final round) will have their votes counted. The top voted artists will then be in the running to win some big money and get a chance to perform at the Showcase concert in front of music industry professionals.

We really really want to be at the Showcase concert! So get ready and rally your friends, work mates, Facebook friends, together to vote for us starting 20 March!

www.soundcheck.com.au/showEntry.do


Whoa... that was a mouthful! Thanks for reading :)


Cheryl

Hi,

Happy Chinese New Year (Gong Xi Fa Cai) and Valentine's Day xx

Gotta love Valentine's Day... a day of pain and rejection for some, nonchalance for others, smoochy-woochiness, red hearts,  and the sound of cash registers working tirelessly for Hallmark and florists around the world. Sorry for being a cynic! No... really, have a lovely Valentine's Day - whether or not you have someone special in your life!

And now for an inundation of love from me to you:



Being the melancholic girl I am, I had to sneak in a broken one to you as well. ;)

We have a new video for you if you're in the mood for some youtube and there's nothing smoochy-woochy about it ...

Recently we did a cover of a John Mayer song called 'Why Georgia'. Outside of the US it's probably not a very well-known song, but I love it because it's so well-written and beautifully captures this sense of loneliness, fear and uncertainty in life that we all experience from time to time.

Just go to http://www.jadediary.com/fr_media to view it.

Have a few gigs coming up including one on 5 March at The Cottlesloe Hotel (full band).

Hope you have a wonderful week ahead of you!



Cheryl