Greg Andrew is an accomplished writer, performer and composer in his own right.

A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Greg Andrew has now built a professional career in the entertainment industry as an Elton John Impersonator.

In this episode of Music Business Facts Greg talks to Rodney about his successful career performing and touring with The Elton John Experience and so much more!

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Raymond Herrera is the super creative double kick drum master who was the driving force behind influential industrial metal band Fear Factory.

Raymond is also an award winning composer and producer for video games, TV and feature films. He has contributed to the soundtracks of such cool games like Mortal Combat, Resident Evil, Battlefield 2, Need For Speed, Iron Man 2 to name but a few.

Currently Raymond is coordinating an exciting new crowd funding project called “Project Rogue", where he is aiming to raise around $70K so he can release a new record with his buddies who include members of System of a Down, Napalm Death, Cynic, Obituary, Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse, and Devil Driver to name just a few.

This is a great interview where Raymond talks about the business of Fear Factory, music publishing, record contracts, remixing, writing music for games and films, and the concept of crowd funding to fund a recording. Enjoy!

Andrew McMillen is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane Australia.

He has had articles and reviews published in publications such as Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed, Wired, The Sydney Morning Herald, Triple J Mag and Australian Penthouse (to name a few).

Today he speaks with Rodney Holder from Music Business Facts about how to best engage with the media in order to gain their attention for your music projects.

Vickii Cotter is a musician, lawyer and lecturer who loves music festivals so much she bought one! The Noosa Jazz Festival.

Previously Vickii worked for The Sydney Vivid Festival, The Gympie Muster and the Byron Bay Blues Fest. Vickii is also a music business lecturer at the University of Queensland and she also owns her own events company Visable.

An amazing interview where Vickii delves deep into her extensive knowledge on music event management, law, marketing, negotiations and much more!

Wow Vickii Cotter is a super achiever!!

Chris Maric is the man behind Maric Media- A company that works in promotion, publicity and artist relations.

With over 15 years experience behind him, Chris has worked the promotion for companies like Channel Ten, Riot Entertainment, Sony, Universal and EMI.

In this episode of Music Business Facts Chris talks about the role of the publicist and how he became a publicist. Chris also discusses some great strategies on how to formulate a media plan and on how to best communicate an artist product or service to obtain the attention of industry players like the media, labels and promoters. Enjoy!

Brian J Simon is an audio engineer who has worked in the music industry for over twenty-five years.

Brian has mainly worked as a front of house audio engineer, but has also worked as a production manager, tour manager, monitor engineer and has also done backline.

Brian has worked with bands like The Monkeys, Night Ranger and The Little River Band. But for the past two and a bit years Brian has been FOH mixing one of the most successful and legendary rock bands of all time. Foreigner! (80 million album sales world-wide).

Juan Punchy Gonzalez is an audio and video producer, tour manager, FOH mixer and recording engineer who has worked with a number of artists including successful death metal acts like Nile, and Morbid Angel.

I caught up with Punchy on the latest Morbid Angel tour of Australia where he is both the Tour Manager and Front Of House engineer.

This is an interesting perspective from a guy who earns his living by tour management and front of house engineering.

Jim Runge is a tour manager and tour consultant who is currently the full time tour manager for The Black Keys. Previously Jim has also worked for artists such as Machine Head, Alice in Chains, Susanne Vega, Ryan Adams and Rickie Lee Jones to name a few.

In this episode of Music Business Facts Jim talks about the truths on being a professional tour manager. He goes into detail about the roles and responsibilities of working as a TM with a professional artist around the world. A really inspiring and educational episode- Enjoy.

Ariel Hyatt is an American publicist, author, digital marketing strategist, PR expert and international speaker. Ariel Hyatt started her own firm back in 1996-Cyber PR, and also has a second publicity company Ariel PR”.

She is a multiple music business author, writing successful titles such as Music success in nine weeks, The musicians guide to Facebook & Twitter, Social media guide for musicians and The Teachers guide to social media”.

In this episode of Music Business Facts Ariel talks all things musical PR such as artist marketing techniques, social media formulas, optimising media press kits, 1000 true fan theory, Crowdfunding, and so much more.

A really educational insight into one of the world's music publicity experts!

Heavy metal and rock DJ Andrew Haug from www.andrewhaug.com interviews Music Business Facts producer Rodney Holder.

Rodney has been a drummer, performer, writer, promoter, and manager for over twenty five years.

He has a bachelor degree in communication and media production and has been teaching music business studies at technical college since 1999. Rodney's career in the music industry began back in 1987. Initially as a drummer and the co manager of his psychedelic metal band Alchemist.

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Between 1990 and 2010 Rodney and his group released numerous internationally acclaimed albums, toured Australia countless times, and performed at some of the world's biggest metal festivals in Europe- sharing the bills with the likes of Iron Maiden, Slayer, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Kiss and Venom to name a few.

Rodney was also the co-promoter and organiser of Australia's largest and longest running all- Australian metal festival- Metal For The Brain. From 1991 to 2005 Metal For The Brain was the premium metal show in Australia and raised tens of thousands of dollars for The National Brain Injury Foundation and brain injury victim- Alec Hurley.

After completing a communication/media production degree in 1998, Rodney began sharing his extensive knowledge and industry experiences with other musicians.