Welcome to winter ladies and gentlemen and I know I keep saying it but the music just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Throw a few of these on and your dancefloor and venues are guaranteed to stay scorching...... Dave Grohl and his almighty Foo Fighters have been belting out quality rock tunes for 10 years now. Already kicking up a ferocious wind of hype for the new double longplayer In Your Honour, the boys throw a grenade in our face with the awesome new single Best Of You. Singing like it’s his last song ever, Grohl’s laryngitis-inducing voice sits atop the band's staple of emotive powerchords and explosive drums and it’s awesome!!! Turn it up, it’s on RD111.
	More big news this month is the return of the original funk, soul brother Stevie Wonder and he’s still as HOT as ever! A Time To Love is the name of the forthcoming LP which is his first studio release in nearly 10 years. SoWhat The Fuss is the first, funky-as-hell single lifted from the album and features Prince on guitar and En Vogue as guest backing vocalists. It’s already smashed the record in the US for the highest number of debut spins on radio, surpassing Anita Baker’s 2004 hit You’re My Everything. Check out the video on ED111 and CR111 or maybe you’d prefer the audio only remix featuring the awesome Q-Tip released last month.
	Using Tarantino movies as a musical reference has always been cool... hell, it worked for the Fun Lovin’ Criminals on Scooby Snacks and tell me who doesn’t now know the famous opening guitar strums on Urge Overkill’s version of that Neil Diamond song Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon? The latest offenders are Audio Bullys who have pieced together Shot You Down, a thumping house groove over the top of Nancy Sinatra’s original 60’s track Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) made famous recently in Kill Bill 2. That’s not all.... the Black Eyed Peas have hijacked the surfy guitar bit from Dick Dale’s Miserlou (as featured in Pulp Fiction) for a track called Pump It, a high vibe party starter from their newly released album Monkey Business. They’re both part of this month’s CR111.
	Australia’s hottest urban pop act Shakaya bounce back this month with Are You Ready, the first single to be lifted from their forthcoming second album. Featuring a rap by Nate Wade and written/produced by the MadNotes, the big shots behind hits from the likes of Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys, Are You Ready is a club-friendly/R&B flavoured party anthem powered by a hook as irresistible as the girls who sing it. We had it out two weeks ago on CX111.
	Walk around the Nightlife Music Department right now and you’re guaranteed to hear the new Rogue Traders single pumping out of my corner. The Aussie dance outfit spring back onto the scene this month with a new sound, a new attitude and they’ve pulled a Black Eyed Peas trick by adding a new member to their lineup - Neighbours star Natalie Bassingthwaighte. Now they unleash their first effort together, the electro-rock brilliance of Voodoo Child. No, it’s not the classic Jimi Hendrix track, it is a cracking dancefloor anthem based around a sample of Elvis Costello’s Pump It Up. It was out two weeks ago on CX111 and we’ve also given you the James Ash Lektric Remix for your clubbing pleasure.

	Author - Ben Preece
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Incidentally, Ballarat is one of Australia's largest inland cities with a population of 65,000. It is also one of Victoria's premier tourist destinations, attracting visitors mainly for its gold and architectural heritage. Geoff's fave current song is Everywhere by Moustache, and fave artist is Anastacia. He would most like to meet Kylie Minogue and just loves the music she produces. Get well soon Kylie!

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At Your Service
Re-organising your playlists

If you want to delete a song from your playlist it’s as easy as selecting the song and pressing the [Delete] key. This will delete it only from the current playlist and is not a permanent deletion. Always remember, when you Skip a song [F10] it will permanently skip that song and put it into Search/Skipped Songs.

You can easily re-organise a list to play in the order you want, working one song at a time, by using [Delete] and [Insert].

If you want to move a song up or down your playlist all you have to do is highlight the song and press [Delete] on your keyboard; find the place where you would like to insert it and press the [Insert] key on your keyboard. The song will then be inserted above the line that is highlighted.

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News from NZ

All it takes is a huge sporting event to get the country going, and more particularly, the bars and restaurants who give their customers the best entertainment possible. The recent Lions tour of New Zealand was a classic example, and in the last couple of months we have had huge growth, particularly in the smaller centres where smaller venues realise that Nightlife is the answer to their marketing budget. On a per capita basis, cities like Napier/Hastings are among the most “nightlifed” places around. For a population of close to 125,000, there are 9 venues with Nightlife, 4 within 150 metres of each other. This is an example of “hubbing” at its best. A big Nightlife welcome to The Phoenix in Napier and Jupiters Nightclub in Hastings.

The “Mainlanders” love their rugby too - if the final of the Super 12 was anything to go by - Nightlife venues reported a huge night - sort of like their own “World Cup Final”. Christchurch is
another great example of Nightlife “hubbing”, and the small towns down in the South Island also do Nightlife proud - welcome to new venues The Red Lion in Rangiora and The Turf Bar and Crusaders Bar, both in Nelson.

Bars are not the only venues who love Nightlife. Les Mills is the country's leading gym franchise and they now have four gyms running the Nightlife system, but more on them next month....

APRA Awards

After relocating to Melbourne in 2004, the 14th Annual APRA Awards ceremony moved back to Sydney this year to honour the achievements of Australian songwriters, composers and publishers as voted by their peers. Missy Higgins was the big winner this year taking out the award for ‘Song Of The Year’ for her superb track Scar as well as the ‘Breakthrough Award’ for emerging talent.

Melbourne band Jet also won two awards. Are You Gonna Be My Girl won ‘Most Performed Work Overseas’ and the group also collected ‘Songwriter of the Year’.

Pete Murray won the APRA Award for ‘Most Performed Australian Work’ for 'So Beautiful' and US band 3 Doors Down picked up ‘Most Performed Foreign Work’ for 'Here Without You'.

Check out the videos for all these songs on a Nightlife system near you. While you’re there, throw on a few more Aussie tracks and help promote our local and fruitful industry.