Rock Scholars in Osborne Park, Western Australia | Performance & event venue

Rock Scholars

Locality: Osborne Park, Western Australia

Phone: +61 437 806 109

Address: 14 McDonald Street West 6017 Osborne Park, Western Australia, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.rockscholars.com.au

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24.01.2022 Fun Adult band program vibes at The Rosemount Hotel from last night’s gig. Such good times with three great bands! Congrats Mask McGowan, Notorious and Dreamheist for putting on such a great show for us all! Here’s Dreamheist closing out the show with The Middle by Jimmy Eat World. Best of luck too to their guitarist Elise who is taking a break to have her first baby. Next up is our regular band program show at The Indian Ocean Hotel today with one helluva lineup of young Scholars’ bands. Doors open at 12:30pm. Love to see you there.

24.01.2022 [ ADULT BAND PROGRAM ] rehearsals recommence from the weekend of 25/26 July. If you sing or play a little guitar, bass guitar, drums or keys and keen to jam with other like-minded musos, do get in touch. This could be a great opportunity to dust off your instrument and start playing again or to play with others for the first time. For more information and to enrol please go to https://www.rockscholars.com.au/adult-program #bandprogram #adultsprogram #gigs #jam #homegrown

24.01.2022 Updated: CONGRATULATIONS Carla on taking out the overall WAM GRAND PRIZE win for the second year in a row for her song 2001 along with gongs for best rock and best folk categories. Woo hoo! Super happy too for Grand Prize runners up Jack Davies and the Bush Chooks who we are all huge fans of at Scholars! Congrats and well done to all of the other winners and nominees. WA is so damn lucky to have you all right here. For the full reveal of all the winners, check out... the WAM website https://wam.org.au/winners-revealed-for-song-of-the-year-2/ ........ Very best of luck to ALL of the amazing nominees at this year's WAM Song of the Year awards, especially to Scholars' mentor and all-round gorgeous human Carla Geneve who is up for a gong for best rock and folk song. Event details: WAM Song of the Year 2020 Virtual Awards Party! Free Stream TUNE IN LIVE https://bit.ly/3jtmszs #wam #wamawards #songoftheyear

24.01.2022 Exciting news from the Sly Withers camp ! Be sure to tune into Good Nights on triple j tonight from 6pm to catch the premiere of their latest tune. #thosefaces #slywithers #triplej

24.01.2022 This is SO GOOD! Love love all of the cameos. Another great tune from everyone's favourite lads from the Northern Suburbs. https://youtu.be/jdcfj86imuQ

23.01.2022 Great video from Pilerats telling the story of our state's largest All Ages music festival HyperFest and how it's changing. Hyper plays such an important part in our local music scene, providing our live music loving youth with a drug and alcohol free space to enjoy a real festival experience. We are super proud to have had so many former and current Scholars' bands invited to play on Hyper stages over the years. You can find out more about it including how to volunteer at future events here: https://www.hyperfest.com.au/home.

21.01.2022 GIGS AND MORE GIGS! It is less than six weeks until our bands start hitting the stage once again for their end of term shows. If you are keen to know more about all of the goodness that happens at Rock Scholars, then come join us at one of these: Sunday, 20 September at the Indian Ocean Hotel... https://www.facebook.com/events/601388060751538/ Saturday, 26 September at The Bassendean Hotel https://www.facebook.com/events/909069029570819/ Sunday, 27 September at The Garage https://www.facebook.com/events/987927768336583/ We would to see you there. Festivus 2019 by Annie Harvey #gigs #bandprogram #endofterm #perthlivemusicscene #homegrown

21.01.2022 Check it out ! Great Gable are bringing their good mates Dulcie with them to The Garage when they play their ONLY ALL AGES show on this tour on Friday, 9 October. Grab your tickets now to avoid disappointment.

20.01.2022 Exciting team news Joining the most amazing team of band mentors and music tutors in the Southern Hemisphere this term is Regan Dale. Regan has been playing music for over 10 years, performing live for a number of those. After studying drums at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Regan has been teaching and gigging around Perth regularly since 2017 with bands including Almond Soy Supathick Mal de Mer Grace Armstrong South Ceiling and others. Regan is looking forward to mentoring Scholars bands Coexist, Motion Pictures and Indecisive as well as meeting his new drum and bass students next week! Welcome aboard Reggie! #mentors #musictutors #bandprogram #musicschool #rockschool #homegrown

20.01.2022 This news is definitely worth at least three hell yeahs. . Congratulations Sly Withers!

19.01.2022 Tune in to RTRFM 92.1 tomorrow at around 2.30pm to catch Scholarpalooza 2020 winners Intrusion talk to Amaru about their new single 'Red Wine' ahead of its release next Friday and already SOLD OUT launch at HQ on Saturday. For those who love a little back-story.....this super talented band were formed at Rock Scholars around mid-2016 with a couple of line-up changes along the way. Following a successful 2017 where they took out Rock Scholars Band of the Year, Intrusion wer...e successful recipients of a Propel Youth Arts Grant which they used to record their debut EP 'Floating' with Michael Jelinek from Jelly Sound. This then led to their first WAM song of the year nomination for their single Rage. Stalwarts of Perths All Ages music scene, Intrusion have played countless shows at The Garage and HQ over the years supporting the likes of Sly Withers, Noah Dillon, good buddies from their Scholars days Homebrand and Phoneline Valentine and the band played their first WAMFest in 2019. So keep your ears peeled for this new track coming. It. Is. Huge. In the meantime, have a listen to Rage to get you ready for your weekend! https://www.triplejunearthed.com/jukebox/play/track/8231621 #intrusion #scholarpalooza #palooza2020 #rtrfm #singlelaunch #redwine #homegrown

19.01.2022 BAND CAMP is back in 2021. For the third consecutive year, we will be holding our four day version of our long running Band Program from Tuesday 12th of January to Friday 15th of January culminating in a live performance at our venue The Garage. You can find more info at https://www.rockscholars.com.au/band-camp Places are limited so register asap if you're keen.... Flashback to our youngest Band Campers rockin' The Garage stage last January.

19.01.2022 So much gig action coming up in the next few weeks for our Rock Scholars' bands. Pre-sale tickets are available right here. Sunday, 20th of September at the Indian Ocean Hotel... https://tickets.oztix.com.au//c12e979f-54c5-45f9-affc-c30e Saturday, 26th of September at The Bassendean Hotel https://www.trybooking.com/BKZRO Sunday, 27th of September at The Garage https://portal.trybooking.com/au/event/650103 #homegrown #bandprogram #endoftermgigs

18.01.2022 There are many things we love about Rock Scholars, one is the privilege we have in watching our students grow up. One of our longest serving band program residents is talented guitarist/all-round amazing musician and sweet lady, Lola. Lola started lessons at Rock Scholars when she was just 9 years old, joined the band program when she was 10 and this year Lola got her Ps and started driving herself to her weekly band program rehearsals. Lola's band Patio Living won Band... of the Year at the end of 2019 - the song they recorded with Jelly Sound (their prize) received rave reviews on triple j Unearthed and they are now looking forward to supporting WA legends Sly Withers in December. Come check them out at the Indian Ocean Hotel on Sunday where the band will be headlining the first of our three end of term shows. We would love to see you there. Full details can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/601388060751538/ https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/patio-living 4, 5 and 6(cropped) Annie Harvey - Photographer

18.01.2022 Congratulations to Scholars’ band The Violets on the release of ‘Hubble Street’ today. We it so much. You guys have worked so hard for this and deserve it to be a huge success. The band recorded this song with Seah Sounds earlier this year, their prize for winning one of our two 2020 Band of the Year awards. It’s the perfect tune to take you into your weekend so what are you waiting for, go give it a listen! https://open.spotify.com/track/1qhG3IUHQAhZONr1w50rFn

18.01.2022 So proud of these legends. Detour released their debut single ‘Left Shoe’ today and it is an absolute belter! Recorded, mixed and mastered by legend Michael Jelinek from Jelly Sound, the band's 2019 Band of the Year prize, this tune is suuuuuper catchy. Available via all streaming platforms so go give it a listen if you can. You can also catch them live when they next play at Rock Scholars presents Festivus 2020 on Sunday 13 Dec at The Rosie alongside a killer lineup of Scholars’ bands. https://open.spotify.com/track/6V98KBP3QIblq2QobZXV1T

15.01.2022 Happy Aus Music T-shirt Day to y'all. Today's the perfect day to grab yourself some new merch and/or make a donation to Support Act via https://www.ausmusictshirtday.org.au/ Maybe treat yourself to some merch (or music) from some of these local WA legends. https://carlageneve.bandcamp.com/... https://slywithers.com/#merch https://supathicksupathick.bandcamp.com/music https://www.theartistmerchhub.com/col/pot-plant-house-party https://moth.bandcamp.com/merch https://www.greatgablemusic.com/ https://homebrand.bandcamp.com/merch https://flossyband.bandcamp.com/music https://jackdaviesfolk.bandcamp.com/merch https://dulciemusic.bandcamp.com/ https://noahdillon.bandcamp.com/music https://airlinefood.bandcamp.com/merch https://moonlighter2.bandcamp.com/music https://tether-music.bandcamp.com/merch/tether-hands-t-shirt Tees from some of our faves modelled by Scholars' band program students. Carla Geneve Spacey Jane Pot Plant House Party Dulcie Great Gable #ausmusictshirtday

15.01.2022 Oh my jolly goodness, we are in merch heaven this week. Check out the hot goods Charlie and the boys from Pot Plant House Party have available for pre-order right now. One red tee and vinyl bundle ordered. Thank you fellas. We are very keen to hear your new toon next week too.

15.01.2022 Introducing Peach Pulp. We formed this new line-up with Tisha, Amberley, Nat and Alisha at the start of term 3 this year and the girls rapidly became a Scholars' fan favourite. In five weeks time they will be back on stage once again when they headline the first of our final three shows for 2020 at one of our favourite live music haunts The Indian Ocean Hotel on Wednesday, 16 December. Come join us for an evening of good times and great tunes. You can grab your tickets via Oztix (see link on the FB event). https://www.facebook.com/events/672125807037557/ Enjoy their cover of Calypso by Spiderbait.

14.01.2022 O. M. G. Check out FLOSSY's latest tune out on all platforms today (see link in the attached post). We LOVE it and have had it on repeat ALL morning! For all you 18+ Sly Withers fans out there crying cos you missed out on a ticket to their show tomorrow night, THE very best way to get over that is to go to Flossy's single launch at The Bird. https://www.facebook.com/events/304689553894706/

14.01.2022 Flashback to when Intrusion took out Scholarpalooza 2020!, selected by a panel of Perth music scene legends. Keep your eyes peeled for news coming soon re your fave 18 and under band comp, back for the fifth consecutive year in 2021 .

14.01.2022 Exciting news! Back for the fifth consecutive year in January is the Scholarpalooza! 'Battle of the Bands' competition, held exclusively for WA bands aged 18 and under! Thank you to the City of Stirling for getting behind this event, for the third year running! REGISTRATIONS are NOW OPEN so what are you waiting for! Closing date is Friday, 9 January unless fully subscribed prior. Full details can be found via the link in the below post, Stay posted for more news on this event via Scholarpalooza 2021.

13.01.2022 The last time these lads played a show at Rock Scholars HQ The Garage the crowd went nuts for their cover of this Tay-Tay tune and Joel 'Shredlord' Junior broke three strings on his guitar playing it. Well guess what - Contraband will be back on the same stage this Saturday to open the first Carwash All Ages show since February and we are excited! Grab your tickets right here to avoid disappointment. https://www.trybooking.com/BLATM... https://www.facebook.com/events/683992428996457/ Carwash is proudly brought to you by Heaps Cool Music in partnership with Rock Scholars and The Garage.

13.01.2022 There was a great two-page spread in this week's The West Australian ED! pull out about how singing is good for your health, including a section featuring one of our wonderful vocal tutors Gemma and her student Bella. Zoom in to see Gemma's thoughts on whether anyone can learn to sing (yes!), her top singing tips and how singing lessons make Bella feel. Along with guitar, bass, drums and keys Rock Scholars offers singing lessons to young people of all levels and experience. Our next term commences from Monday, 19th of July so if you are keen to get started or improve your singing ability, do get in touch. We would love to hear from you. Magda Bartucciotto from The West for getting Rock Scholars involved.

13.01.2022 Gig alert! We are suuuuuper excited to be hosting the only All Ages show Great Gable have just added to their tour in October at The Garage. This show will sell out fast folks so be sure to grab your tix quick.

13.01.2022 More Scholars team news Joining our amazing team of band mentors this week is Catherine Zoller! Catherine is a familiar member of the Perth music scene, playing drums for indie-pop band Smol Fish and alt-rock group Moth a band formed at Rock Scholars back in 2014. As a former band program student herself, Catherine is passionate about helping young musicians flourish on their musical journey and experience the thrills of jamming and performing. We are so excited to have Catherine on board! #bandprogram #bandmentor #homegrown

12.01.2022 Woo! Congratulations Sly Withers for being nominated alongside these Western Australian legends for this year's National Live Music Awards 'Best Live Act in WA'. This is publicly voted on so it would be really lovely if you could all sling the boys a vote. https://www.nlmas.com.au/vote-wa/ Whilst we are here, Sly also announced a show on Friday 2 October to celebrate their latest single 'Cracks' with some great supports including former Scholars' residents Homebrand. We ...will be there and we hope to see you too! Limited tix as always due to phase 4 restrictions so get in quick. https://www.facebook.com/events/234578787919329/

12.01.2022 Wishing RS mentor legends John, Christian and Tyler all the very very best for their Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) Graduation Recitals over the next week at The Rosemount Hotel, signalling the end of their Bachelor of Music degrees and the beginning of their next bright and exciting chapters. Anyone keen to come support the boys with us, you can grab tickets via Oztix for: John - tonight at 7.20pm... Christian - Monday, 16 Nov at 8pm Tyler - Tuesday, 17 Nov at 6pm See more

11.01.2022 We had lots of fun recently transforming this space into a shiny brand new teaching room for our one and one music lessons at Rock Scholars. This has enabled us to open up new teaching schedules with some of our amazing team of tutors across ALL instruments this term. So if you are keen to get started with lessons in guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drums or singing, or to improve your playing we would love to hear from you. https://www.rockscholars.com.au/music-lessons #musiclessons #bassguitar #guitar #vocal #singing #drums #keyboard #homegrown

11.01.2022 Sadly but necessarily today's end of term show at The Garage will need to be rescheduled to a new date due to the COVID restrictions that have just been announced for the Perth and Peel region. Stay safe everyone.

11.01.2022 Scholars fam, if you havent already subscribed to this years RTRFM 92.1 Radiothon and are in a position to, please help this wonderful homegrown institution, made up mostly of volunteers, keep doing its thing supporting WA music.

11.01.2022 Our next Adult Band Program gig at The Rosemount Hotel is happening in just two sleeps! Come join us for an evening of good times and great rock tunes on Friday night! Doors open at 7pm. This adorable bunch aka Dreamheist are headlining this term's show with an awesome set including their first original tune which we are super keen to hear. Full details including link to pre-sale tix can be found here. ... https://fb.me/e/1rHY8Hjku See you there!

10.01.2022 These legends were placed together in our band program three plus years ago when they were only 11 years old and have been writing great tunes together for almost as long. Detour recorded one of their songs with Michael Jelinek from Jelly Sound over the weekend, their prize for taking out one of our band of the year awards at the end of 2019. COVID delayed them being able to lay down their first track, but we are super keen and excited to hear it real soon.

10.01.2022 These lads are massive fans of Rage Against The Machine. It was so so good seeing them perform 'Bulls on Parade' at their end of term gig at The Garage last Sunday. Term 3 band program rehearsals commence from Monday, 20 July. If you sing, play guitar, bass guitar, drums or keys and are keen to experience what it's like to play in a band and join the most amazing community of young musicians in WA, do get in touch. ps. be sure to check our James' guitar solo ~1min in on this vid. #homegrown #gigs #endofterm #bandprogram #bandmentoring #ratm

10.01.2022 Don't forget our regular ALL AGES event CARWASH is back this Saturday with an absolute killer line-up of some of Perth's finest young bands, that includes Scholars' own The Violets and Jules Jarrett who will be joined by P.E.P Talk supporting headline act Bad Weather. It's going to be a real good time that you do not want to miss. Grab your tickets here and we'll see you there. https://www.trybooking.com/BMLKA https://www.facebook.com/events/2723832347828997/... Carwash is brought to you by Heaps Cool Music.

10.01.2022 There are less than 40 tix left for the Great Gable show with Dulcie at The Garage on Friday 9 October, so you had better be quick if you don't want to miss the ONLY All Ages show on this tour. Scholars' musos, please don't come crying.... https://tickets.oztix.com.au//cb5989a0-b552-4295-9aa6-3f86

09.01.2022 Scholars' fam, get around the latest single from Pot Plant House Party and be sure to check out the very cool video they made for it.

09.01.2022 So great to have all of our amazing bands back at Scholars HQ this week working on new tunes for their September gigs. Excited to see Felicity, Willah-Rose, Jacob and Jack (the hidden legend in this vid on the tubs) aka 11 Mania back tonight! Its not too late to enrol for this term so do get in touch if you are keen to join Perths leading community of young musos mentored by some of the best musos in the state. #gigs #bandprogram #nirvana #homegrown

07.01.2022 Introducing one of our newest bands, pop-punk rockers Contraband with a very special guest on bass. These guys closed out the final of three end of term shows last night at The Garage with an amazing high energy set that included songs by Taylor Swift, Rage Against The Machine plus a killer new original. So thats a wrap on Term 2 for our band program folks. Thank you to everyone who came along to our gigs over the last two weekends. Massive well done to ALL of our bands and solo artists. We and your mentors are all so incredibly proud of each and every one of you! #endofterm #gigs #bandprogram #headliner #taylorswift #homegrown #livemusic

07.01.2022 Scholars' band Patio Living's first single 'Away' premiered on triple j Unearthed today. This tune was recorded, mixed and mastered by Michael Jelinek, the band's prize for taking out one of two Band of the Year awards at Rock Scholars at the end of last year. Exciting times ahead for Patio Living including joining a tip top line-up of Scholars' alumni supporting Sly Withers at their sold-out AA show coming up in October - we all pray we make it to phase 5 so this show a...nd so many others can go ahead. Have a listen to Away and feel free to leave a little review if you can. https://www.triplejunearthed.com/jukebox/play/track/9661396

07.01.2022 We everything about this SO much. Scholars bands, go witness the thickness of Supathick. You may recognise your mentors Tub Boi, Dime Dab Dale and Mr Thick himself. #witnessthethickness #disco #beststylingever

05.01.2022 Stoked to have this legend join the best team of band mentors on planet earth this week. Hailing from Margaret River originally, multi-instrumentalist Sascha Seabourne-Carlin has been playing music since he was 11 years old. A passionate guitarist and singer-songwriter, Sascha studied contemporary music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before heading east to continue his studies at the Australian Institute of Music in Melbourne. Sascha is the front...-man and lead guitarist for Perth blues-rock act Moonlighter and has played with a host of Australian bands in Perth and Melbourne including BOAT SHOW, Dead Sea, Denise le Menice, Dan Howls and Sky Cave. We are super excited to have Sascha on board to help our young bands continue to develop and grow into the best bands they can be. Welcome Sascha! #wamusic #bandmentors #bandprogram #homegrown

05.01.2022 The sweet sounds of Bittersweet will be back at the Indian Ocean Hotel this coming Sunday in a lineup of some of Perths finest young bands, covering their favourite homegrown artists as well as playing some amazing new original tunes. We cant wait. Tickets avail via Oztix. U18s welcome with a parent or guardian. Hope to see you there! Enjoy this Bittersweet cover of Stained Glass by Scholars faves Ocean Alley. https://fb.me/e/7OBBhrKDZ... . #oceanalley #gigs #homegrown #perthlivemusicscene #bandprogram #endoftermgigs

04.01.2022 Just grabbed some of the new merch now available to pre-order from Sly Withers HQ. Love love these new designs so much guys.

04.01.2022 JUST ANNOUNCED Carla Geneve is playing the only ALL AGES show on her upcoming Regional WA Tour at Rock Scholars HQ The Garage on Saturday, 20 February, 2021. The tickets are already on the move for this show folks, so to be sure you don't miss out, be quick to grab yours here. https://www.trybooking.com/BMVXQ

04.01.2022 Now brought to you by Heaps Cool Music, Carwash is back next Saturday, 12th of September at the home of Rock Scholars The Garage with headliners Club Sentimental, Spici Water, Sofa band and Scholars' own Contraband. Tickets are limited so if you want to be sure you don't miss out, grab yours here right now. https://portal.trybooking.com/au/event/650818

03.01.2022 Amongst the insane amount of talent in the room over the weekend at our end of term gigs were Motion Pictures. We loved their version of this Wolfmother hit. Term 3 band program rehearsals commence from Monday, 20 July. If you are keen to be in a band and join our amazing community please do get in touch via [email protected] or 0437806109. #gigs #wolfmother #endofterm #bandprogram #dimension #homegrown

03.01.2022 Nothing like this Spiderbait hit to get your Monday morning moving. Soap Opera nailed their instrumental version of Black Betty at their end of term show earlier this month as well as tunes from the likes of Powderfinger, Foo Fighters and Rage Against The Machine. Tiago, Brodie and Stevie are stoked to have their former bassist Claudia rejoin them this coming term, however we are still on the look out for a suitable vocalist to join these hardworking and amazing young musicians. If this could be your son or daughter, we would love to hear from you. #blackbetty #bandprogram #gigs #bandmentoring #spiderbait

03.01.2022 We are pretty excited to announce our inaugural Rock Scholars Adult Band Program show is happening on Saturday, 26 September at The Bassendean Hotel. Come join us for an evening of rock and roll tunes from the 70s, 80s and 90s from 7pm. $10 entry. Looking forward to seeing you there! #nevertoolatetorock #bandprogram #grownups #homegrown

02.01.2022 Wow-wee! That was one helluva end of term show. Such great vibes. Thank you to the beautiful people who came down to support our amazingly talented young bands. It is just so good to have live music back. We are super excited to do it all again today from 1pm with Rock Scholars presents Contraband, Break Time and friends. Thanks Patio Living for closing out last nights show! #gigs #bandprogram #livemusicisback #endofterm #bandmentoring

01.01.2022 Thanks so much RTRFM 92.1 for having Intrusion in for a chat on Homegrown this afternoon and premiering Red Wine on the airwaves. Red Wine will be available via all streaming platforms this coming Friday! In case you missed it, here is a beautiful stripped down version of Drown that Jye and Paddy treated us to as well. ... #rtrfm #homegrown #perthlivemusicscene

01.01.2022 Next instalment of Carwash is up! Check out this killer line-up brought to you by Kahlee from Heaps Cool Music that includes Scholars' faves The Violets along with Jules Jarrett from Emotions & Math, who will be switching her drumsticks for her guitar and doing a little solo thing. Grab your presale tickets via the link in the event to avoid missing out. #allages #homegrown #gigs #perthlivemusic

01.01.2022 We are excited to have CARWASH back next month with this killer lineup including Scholars own Contraband. Woo! Grab your tickets via the link on the event. We would also like to officially welcome Kahlee Lengkeek from Heaps Cool Music to the Scholars fam. Kahlee is one of the hardest working up and coming Artist Managers & Bookers in Perth and we are stoked to have her on board to look after all things Carwash.