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21/06/2008 The McClymonts
present at 2008 APRA
Awards The McClymonts attended the 2008 APRA music awards held at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney on June 16th. The APRA awards honour Australian songwriters and their contributions towards music for the previous year. Brooke, Sam and Mollie presented John Butler from The John Butler trio with ‘Blues and Roots Work Of The Year’ for ‘Good Excuse’ and Troy Casser-Daley and Don Walker for ‘Country Work Of The Year’ for ‘Everythings Going To Be Alright’. The big winner of the night was Daniel Johns from Silverchair taking out songwriter of the year, song of the year for ‘Straight Lines’ and most played Australian work. |
~ news ~ 14/06/2008 - Finally Over Blue #1 on CMC TOP 30 for 2nd week!
The McClymonts are proud to announce they have remixed their latest single, Finally Over Blue, in the hope of attracting a commercial radio audience. "If we get more people that aren't into country music to cross over, that is all for the best,'' said the youngest McClymont sister, Mollie, now 21, while on the set of the clip in a mansion at Sydney's Point Piper. "We are up for anything. We are not going to box ourselves into something. We just want to be us and whatever we make, we hope people will like it.'' The remix includes traditional country instruments such as the mandolin, but incorporates a heavier bass line. Help keep Finally Over Blue in the Top 30 ... click here and request it today. Finally Over Blue out now - click here to buy your copy online! | |||
28/05/2008 McClymonts perform with The Wiggles to raise money for UNICEF
The McClymonts were guests at The Wiggles show on the 25th of May along with performers such as Kate Cebrano, Jimmy Barnes, Shannon Noll, Leo Sayer, Damian Leith and John Paul Young. The concert raised much needed funds for UNICEF. It was a successful day and a great honour for the girls to perform with legends, The Wiggles. |
02/05/2008 McClymonts feature in Sunday Magazine and Creature Features
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! ... be sure to get your copy of this week's And have you ever wondered if the McClymonts have a pet they love to spoil? |
09/02/2008 McClymonts take out Best Group at National Country Music Awards
On Friday night (February 8th) the 17th Victorian and National Country Music Awards were announced as part of the 2008 Whittlesea Country Music Festival program. This gala evening took place in the sumptuous surrounds of the Plenty Ranges Arts and Convention Centre at South Morang. The Victorian and National Country Music Awards recognise and encourage excellence in the Australian Country Music Industry. Held in high esteem throughout the industry, they are considered second only to Tamworths. The McClymonts are both thrilled and honoured to receive this prestigious award. |
26/01/2008 McClymonts win Best Group for 2nd year in a row
After taking home two Golden Guitars at last year’s Country Music Awards of Australia for Best Group or Duo and Best New Talent, The McClymonts have done it again and won the Golden Guitar for Best Group or Duo at the 2008 Country Music Awards of Australia for their hit single ‘Save Yourself’. The McClymonts’ show at Blazes - West Tamworth Leagues Club was the first show in the 800 seated venue to sell out at the 2008 Tamworth Music Festival and is the first time the girls have sold out the legendary venue. have broadband? you can view the clip here (youtube) |
09/01/2008 - My Life Again soars to #1 !!!
My Life Again, the latest single released to radio from Chaos and Bright Lights, weaves the sisters' harmonies atop perky banjo from Nashville virtuoso Eric Silver. In just 8 weeks this urban-savvy-new-country tune from heartland Australia has rocketed to #1 have 512 broadband? check out the clips |
~ news ~ 21/12/2007 - HAVE YOU SEEN THE TV AD YET?
Do you live on the North Coast or are you holidaying in the area this January? Be sure to catch the McClymonts at one of the venues on their North Coast on the Way to Tamworth Tour. Click here for the details of ALL upcoming performances. have broadband? watch the TV ad now | |||
19/12/2007 - McCLYMONTS CHOSEN FOR COVER OF OFFICIAL TAMWORTH GUIDE
IT'S THE BIGGEST EVER! The 2008 Official Guide To The Tamworth Country Music Festival publication is the biggest guide yet to cover Tamworth's Country Music Festival, Australia and it includes a FREE Promotional CD featuring the Top 20 Toyota Star Maker Finalists. The Festival Official Guide to Tamworth is published by Tamworth based Rural Press Events/Country Music Capital News and is the exclusive “bible” for Festival goers. Some 20,000 copies of the comprehensive, 240 page, full colour Festival Official Guide are distributed through selected newsagents in NSW and of course through all newsagents, tourist outlets and accommodation houses in Country Music Capital starting from early January. The Guide also lists finalists in all the major Awards presentations, product and record launches, previous winners of Festival events, Hands of Fame inductees, history of the Festival, emergency services, details of dozens of venues, city maps and even bus time tables. For further information about where to pick up a copy of this special publication contact the publishers Rural Press Events on T: +61 2 6762 2399 or festivalguide@ruralpress.com |
06/12/2007 - McCLYMONTS SCORE ANOTHER
CMAA COUNTRY MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION
Today THE McCLYMONTS’ hard work and talents were recognised as they were announced as finalists for best Group or Duo of the Year, for their hit single “Save Yourself” at the 36th CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia. THE McCLYMONTS are no strangers to the CMAA Country Music Awards as they triumphed in January this year picking up the Golden Guitar for Group or Duo of the Year and Maton New Talent of the Year. |
~ news ~ 16/11/2007 - McClymonts centerstage on news.com.au
Brooke, Sam and Mollie feature on the homepage of news.com.au in an in-depth interview with Alison Stephenson. Alison learns about 'urban savvy new country music', if you can get sushi in Grafton and that the girls reject the 'sexy' label... well, almost anyway. have broadband? watch the full interview (courtesy of news.com.au) | |||
01/11/2007 - The McClymonts win ACE award
The McClymonts were both surprised and delighted to receive the coveted "Best Country/Group" award at the 10th anniversary of Australia’s most prestigious awards for live entertainment, the Australian Club Entertainment (ACE) Awards, held at Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL Club on October 31, 2007. Throughout the years, the awards have celebrated the crème de la crème of club entertainment and the amazing and talented people who keep the club industry alive. Award patron Don Lane once again attended, and star presenter this year was the music icon Marcia Hines, who understands only too well the importance of live entertainment in our clubs. |
~ news ~ 03/09/2007 - NEWS FLASH- THE MCCLYMONTS DEBUT ALBUM TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 10TH! Chaos and Bright Lights, the debut album from The McClymonts is scheduled for release NOVEMBER 10TH and is a combination of their own songs plus co writes with top Australian and American songwriters.
It offers a blend of up-tempo, mainstream country songs, along with a mix of more traditional bluegrass The girls wrote all the songs for the album in both Australia and Nashville with some of the best national and international songwriters. While recording the Album in Nashville they co-wrote with Monty Powell (Keith Urban's main song writing partner), Eric Silver (Dixie Chicks), Trey Bruce (Diamond Rio, Leann Rimes), Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift), Steve Diamond (Lonestar, Lee Greenwood), and Frank Myers who wrote the US 1 country songs "I swear" and "I'm Already There" proved an invaluable experience for them. In Australia they had the priviledge of working with Australian guitar legend and top record producer Rod McCormack,recording artist Shane Nicholson and up and coming songwriter Erinn Sherlock. The album's producer Adam Anders has produced and written with artists Shania Twain, Sinead O'Connor, Steven Curtis Chapman, Room for Two, Nick Lachey and also Australian Shannon Noll. His work on CeCe Winans song "Pray" won 2 Grammy's in 2006. The new album expresses the girls' artistic growth over the past year and showcases their exquisite vocal harmonies.
Check out the first single 'Save Yourself' released to Australian radio TODAY. (click have broadband? watch the video of the behind the scenes action, interviews and studio recording session.
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16/06/2007 - 'Baby's Gone Home Number 1'
The McClymonts video clip for their second single 'Baby's Gone Home' has
reached the top position on the Country Music Channel. After weeks of steadily
climbing the charts the girls have their first number one video.
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16/05/2007 - APRA Nomination
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04/04/2007 - The McClymonts number 1
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23/03/2007 - Jeans for Genes Ambassadors
The McClymonts are very proud to be the new ambassadors for this year's Jeans for Genes Day campaign.
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TheMcClymonts win 2 Golden Guitars at Tamworth!
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10/01/07- Tour De Force- McClymonts Tour Middle East Happy 2007! ‘It was the trip of a lifetime and experience we will never forget. To be part of a show bringing music, laughs and a break in routine to those away from home missing their families during this time of year was extremely rewarding and a complete honour. We have made lifelong friends and we thank everyone both in Australia and in the Middle East for making the tour both possible and memorable’ -The McClymonts |
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12/12/06- The McClymonts up for 2 Golden Guitar nominations!
On Friday the 7th of December at a private function at Luna Park, Sydney, the 2007 Golden Guitar nominees were announced. Before the year is out The McClymonts will also be performing for ‘Women
Out Front’ at The Esplanade Hotel-St Kilda, Melbourne on the 14th of December
in aid of breast cancer. This fundraiser has been organised by The Olivia
Newton-John Cancer Centre Appeal- a centre that will provide excellence in
clinical as well as therapeutical care. It will also feature artists such
as Grace Knight and Carmen Fraser with super-screen messages from other high
profile Australians including: Kylie Minogue, Renee Geyer, Jimmy Barnes and
more.
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1st November 2006 On Thursday the 2nd of November The McClymonts will feature on Channel 9's program
'Getaway'.
Airing at 7.30pm the shows host-former Australian Rules football and
Hawthorn great Dermott Brereton, follows the girls' around their hometown of Grafton
as they discuss their upbringing and break into the music industry.
The feature concludes with the girls performing at their local Crown Hotel to their
friends, family and fans who have supported their music from the very start.
Over 2.5 million people will be tuned in to watch the episode when it premieres on Thursday night. The girls continue to perform around the country with a performance at the 'ABC's 50 Years of Television' celebration this Sunday.This will be a huge night for the girls as some of TV's greats will come out to honour this special occasion. They will perform two sets including tracks of their current self-titled EP to the 800+ crowd. Their second single off their EP 'Baby's Gone Home' has also been dropped to radio last week so make sure you ring up and request the track on your local radio station. Their first single 'Something That My Heart Does', which on several occasions entered the ARIA top 40, climbed up the Australia Country Music Radio charts and reached number 3. |
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17th September 2006 On the 16th of August The McClymonts had the honour of performing at the Aria Hall of Fame Night at The Regent in Melbourne. Inductees included Daddy Cool, The Divinyls, Rose Tattoo, Icehouse and Helen Reddy- for who the girls sang the tribute ‘Delta Dawn’. It was a wonderful opportunity for the group to perform in front of a media filled audience creating hype and excitement amongst the music industry. You can catch repeats of the event on the VH1 channel, Foxtel. If you are one to get up nice and early you might have caught The McClymonts playing their new single ‘Something That My Heart Does’ on the highly popular morning program ‘Sunrise’ on the 4th of September. If you didn’t happen to catch the show tune into the Kerri-Anne Kennelly program, channel 9, on Wednesday the 20th of September for another live performance. While touring around Australia with Country Music Entertainer Lee Kernaghan the girls flew back to their hometown of Grafton on the 12th and 13th of this month to shoot for the travel show ‘Getaway’. The show is to air in mid November but keep checking back to the site for a confirmed date.
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27th July 2006 The McClymonts released their self-titled EP on the Universal Music Label, June 10th 2006. The disk features 5 original songs including their first single- ‘Something That My Heart Does’. Recorded at Rocking Horse Studios, Byron Bay with producer Steve James the EP showcases their talented songwriting and exquisite vocal harmonies. With the current track sitting at number 3 on The Country Music Channel and rising quickly up the Country Music Radio Charts The McClymonts are proving their place on the country music scene. Recently, the girls headed out on the road with Australian Country Music Star Lee Kernaghan. ‘The Outback To The Beaches Tour’ will take them right around Australia performing in both city and rural areas. This has been a great opportunity for The McClymonts to perform their new music to audiences nation wide.
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