Shout Australian Music Sampler

Sydney act McArtney snapped up the best track major prize on the Shout! Australia Music Sampler, winning a Gibson Les Paul guitar for his track “Circles”.

The award was judges by Sat Bisla, Chairman and CEO of Musexpo and A&R Worldwide and his executive team.

We’d like to thank Darren and Zoran for sharing the Shout! Australian Music Sampler Volume 1 with the team at A&R Worldwide. There was some exceptional talent on the CD and it was a difficult choice to narrow it down to one winner. However, after much discussion we unanimously selected McArtney’s track “Circles” as the winner of the Gibson Les Paul competition. We look forward to the next round of unearthed talent from the Shout! Australian Music Sampler Volume 2. Sat Bisla, Chairman and CEO, Musexpo

Gibson Guitar is an icon in the music world and is played by some of rock’s greatest guitarists including Jimmy Page and Angus Young, as well as many Australian rock giants such as Jet and Wolfmother.

Gibson Guitar is excited to be involved with Shout! Australia Music Sampler. Australia has a long and proud history of unearthing incredible local artists, many of who go on to conquer the world with a unique hunger and determination. Gibson Guitar looks forward to developing a great program with the Shout! Australia Music Sampler Team and with the artists involved. Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO, Gibson Guitar

Volume 1 of the Shout! Australia Music Sampler was successfully launched at Musexpo, Los Angeles in April 2008. It was included in the official delegate bag and distributed to over 800 of the world’s most influential music industry executives.

Shout! Australia Music Sampler best track winning artist McArtney has already received airplay for “Circles” on influential tastemaker stations in the US including Indie 103.1 in LA, KNRK Portland, WCNR Charlottesville VA, ‘YRockOnXPN’ WXPN Philadelphia, KCCQ Ames/Des Moines IA and WEQX Manchester VT/Albury NY as well as Motor FM Germany, Xfm UK and Yahoo! Launchcast worldwide.