Celebrating The Year Metal Style With MICK BREW From BREWHOUSE PRODUCTIONS

Interview by Kris Peters
It makes sense that someone who is already in a band would also
want to dip their toes into promotion and putting on shows
themselves, but it's not as easy of a process as you would
think.
Dealing with bands and booking for bands is another stress level of
its own, and often the two - although seemingly perfect bedfellows
- are too difficult to negotiate.
It takes a special kind of person with an honest and genuine love
of music to successfully blend the two into a functioning unit, and
even then the constant source of emails and phone calls can become
too much of a burden.
One such person who has managed to combine both passions without
completely losing his sanity (yet) is Brisbane guitarist for Dirty
Brew and head of Brewhouse Productions, Mick Brew. Mick is a
well-known and highly respected member of the local music scene and
has been juggling his time and energy between both band and
promotions for a number of years now. He has put on a consistently
large number of successful shows and played at some of those and
other big-name festivals, but his sights presently are firmly set
on Brewhouse Production's annual end-of-year celebration of music
to be held at The Back Room, Annerley on December 30.
Featuring Counterfeit Limp Bizkit Show, F.U.C., Krave, Snake
Mountain, We The Hollow, Dirty Brew and others, the annual bash
will house 20 bands over two stages in one afternoon/night of
entertainment that celebrates everything that is good about
Australian music.
HEAVY managed to track Mick down recently to chat about the event
and the constant demands of the music industry.
"It's gonna be a big day," he smiled. "Doors are at 12 with the
first band starting around one o'clock. I just need to finalise
those set times this week. It should be good. There's already a
fair few tickets sold and if it's anything like last year, we sold
nearly 400 tickets, so hopefully we can do that again."
While many people call the annual event a New Years Eve Party, this
year it will be held the night before New Years Eve on Saturday,
December 30. It seems like a good idea to us, but we ask Mick why
he isn't keeping it to the actual date of New Years Eve so people
can remember more easily.
"To be honest, New Years Eve was on a Sunday and everyone has the
Monday off or whatever, but last year when it was on the Saturday
and the Monday was a holiday it just gives you those extra couple
of days," he explained. "It's not so much a New Years Eve party
anymore, it's more of an end-of-year party for everyone to tell the
whole year to get fucked and start again."
In the full interview, Mick runs through a few of the bands playing
and why he put them on the bill, where to get cheaper tickets from,
how to help out bands by buying direct from them, the venue and why
it is the perfect place for live music, the range of sponsors on
the night, future plans and more.