Band Bash prize includes recording time with Mike Turner
Posted By WERNER BERGEN, EXAMINER ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Mike Turner has seen it, done it.
Now the former member of Our Lady Peace is producing music. He is also the first prize at this year's Burleigh Island Lodge's Band Bash competition.
The final 12 bands will compete at the Burleigh Falls resort, north of Lakefield, on Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31, said Jennifer Goheen, marketing and functions manager at Burleigh Island Lodge.
The bands have until Dec. 20 to get original material to them either in EPK, DVD or CD format. From this, judges will narrow the competitors down to 12 bands.
Turner runs The Pocket Studios -Step Right Up Records "just west of The Beaches and just east of downtown Toronto," he said, in an Examiner telephone interview.
"I want to help young bands," Turner said.
"The music industry is a scary place and it's a big step from having a passion for to the music to doing it for a living," he said.
Turner left Our Lady Peace in 2001 and opened the studio in 2004. "On your resume where it says beside your name 15 years a rock star, there's not a whole lot of transferable skills.
"So what are you going to do? I know how to make albums, so I'll make albums.'
Turner said he's been in "elaborate studios."
But the pool table and laundry facilities come with a price tag. His studio is comfortable, gets good results and "you don't blow your brains out with the budget," he said.
Turner has recorded artists including Sloan and Hawksley Workman.
Judges will include Dale Harrison formerly of The Headstones, Joe Kresta A&E of Roadrunner Records, Anthony Tarleton of EMI, Vic Branco of Iguana Recording.
Contact organizers at 705-654-3441 and Jennifer Goheen or Karen Irvine at 705-876- 8074.
from the peterborough examiner