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Orange Amplification Presents Third Annual Progressive Music Awards 2014

For the third year running Orange Amplification take great pleasure in being the headline sponsor for the Annual Progressive Music Awards. These critically and publicly acclaimed awards will be held at the suitably theatrical Underglobe venue, situated below Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, on Thursday 11th September 2014, hosted once again by veteran broadcaster Gavin Esler.

Legendary progressive rock stars nominated for the awards this year include Orange ambassadors; English psychedelic rock band Purson who are up for the Limelight Award, experimental rock band 65daysofstatic are competing for the Breakthrough Artist Award and Transatlantic, whose guitarist Roine Stolt uses Orange, will be contesting the Album Of The Year Award with their album Kaleidoscope. Pioneers of post rock electronica, Mogwai, have been nominated for Band Of The Year and vying for the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award is the Rush 40th Box set, released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album featuring Orange ambassador Geddy Lee.

“We are delighted to once again be supporting the Annual Progressive Music Awards” said Damon Waller, Managing Director, “and doubly delighted to see so many Orange Amplification artists included in the nominations.”

To find out more about the 2014 Progressive Music awards go to http://awards.prog.teamrock.com/.

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Primus and Little Kids Rock Sweepstakes Winner

We have been overwhelmed by the wonderful generosity so many of you have shown in entering our competition in support of Little Kids Rock.

The sweepstakes raised $3140 – enough to serve an additional 125 kids with free music lessons this year!

Thomas “Jay” Gleaton from Atlanta, GA was the winner of the customized Dual Terror signed by members of Primus. This former music teacher donated enough to put a new acoustic guitar into a local classroom. He is a bass player and he said that hearing Primus is what made him want to pick up an electric bass in the first place.

“Little Kids Rock is so grateful to Primus and Orange Amps for supporting our kids!” says Little Kids Rock CEO and Founder, David Wish. “With the funds raised from this sweepstakes, nearly 125 additional public schools students will have access to free musical instruments and lessons, a gift that will last a lifetime!”

Our congratulations to Jay and our sincere thanks to everybody who donated to this very special cause.

 

About Little Kids Rock

Little Kids Rock is a national nonprofit that seeks to build a world where kids can live rich, purposeful lives, and won’t rest until all children have the opportunity to unlock their inner-music makers. The organization partners with economically-disadvantaged public school districts to train their teachers to run innovative Modern Band music programs. This includes donating all of the instruments, curricula and resources necessary to run rockin’ music programs rooted in popular music, with a heavy emphasis on improvisation, composition and approximation. To date they have served more than 300,000 students in 12 states. More info at http://www.littlekidsrock.org

 

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Y Not Festival 2014

For one weekend a year, this weekend in fact – The gorgeous Peak District countryside becomes home to the Y Not Festival. Y Not is the Small, Fresh & Loud music festival, with a fantastic atmosphere and a history of amazing live acts. This year Orange Amps are helping to provide the back line.

There has been steady, organic growth since it began life as a gathering of young people attending an overspilling house party in deepest, darkest, Derbyshirest, Derbyshire. But it does retain the carefree, good-time atmosphere of those original, dawning years.

The festival is still run by the same small team of passionate enthusiasts it was all those years ago (albeit a little older and a little wiser), but with the same ethos at heart – great people having a great time makes a great festival.

Stunning panoramic views of the countryside, a fully stocked bar of local ales and ciders, a mouth-watering selection of food and more live music than you could ever possibly take in all through the finest Orange Amplifiers.

All you need to provide is the memories (and a killer fancy dress outfit).

 

Y not is held on 1st -3rd August 2014 at Pikehall, Derbyshire DE4 2PH. Click HERE for more information

 

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Top Guitar Techs Choose Orange Amplification DIVO VT1000 Valve Tester

When Orange Amplification proudly launched the DIVO VT1000 Valve Tester at Winter NAMM 2013 they knew they were on to something good, but little did they realise the storm it would create in the music industry over the coming months. The VT1000 has become one of the most talked about music accessories in years and has now sold over 10,000 units worldwide.

The VT1000 is a compact, easy to use, fully automatic valve tester where users can easily match and test the wear of valves. Its appeal has been far reaching with guitarists and their techs, rental companies, valve amp manufacturers and Hi-Fi specialists everywhere quickly realising its immense benefits.

The VT1000 won the 2013 Music & Sound Award for Best Accessory and also won the approval of magazine reviewers too. MusicRadar.com believes it is ‘the first and possibly only valve tester that anyone can use without any specialist knowledge’ and gave it four stars in its review. According to Guitar and Bass magazine ‘If your interest in valve amplifiers goes beyond merely playing through them, it’s a wonderful tool to have’ and scored it ninety-one out of a possible one hundred’.

It has been with the music industries guitar techs that the VT1000 has been making big waves. Michael Kaye (The Who, Paul Simon, Shania Twain) commented “Orange’s VT1000 saves time and money – and helps get your amplifier working it’s best, the way you need it.” Mike Clement (Tony Iommi, David Gilmour Band, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Jeff Beck Band) agreed when he said ‘The Orange VT1000 valve tester will become an essential piece of kit for the professional guitar / amp technician’s workbench…. in both the workshop and out on the road. The VT1000 is going to make life a lot easier from now on!’. Drew Foppe (Fleetwood Mac, Deftones) said ‘It has already paid for itself in tube matching fees and tubes that I would have simply ended up getting rid of because I didn’t know if they were any good or not.’

It’s not only the techs that have recognised how great this new tool is. Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher observed ‘I found the Orange tube tester easy to comprehend and incorporate in the testing of all the tubes in my amp giving me a value to each and able to match tubes for best performance in a nice small package’ and John Henry’s in-house repair specialist Dan Knight said it’s ‘A great little bit of kit that is simple to use, does the job and is used daily without any problems  – it makes prepping & repairing amps a whole lot easier’.

To find out why SonicState.com said ‘I think there will also be a large group of people who will think the VT1000 is one of the best things since sliced bread’ go to http://www.orangeamps.com/ and find out what all the fuss is about.

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Golden Gods Aftermath

2000 people flocked to the O2 in London on 16th June to witness The Orange sponsored Golden Gods Awards 2014.

As in previous years they were an enormous success, with the Orange booth once again proving to be a major attraction. Images from our booth can be found on our Facebook Page, so if you struck a pose, check it out and see if you can find yourself.

This year, we ran a competition on the night with people being offered the chance to win a CRPRO 120 Head with a PPC212OB cabinet in exchange for the best pout of the night. (It was an 80s theme – don’t blame us!)  Three finalists were chosen from the many entries and were invited up onto the stage, where Steel Panther, (with some help from the audience) chose our worthy winner.

Check out Sam’s winning pout below.

The event had some awesome live performances from bands including Dillinger Escape Plan and Black Stone Cherry as well as an appearance by Darth Vader himself, David Prowse.

Pictured below are Behemoth and Black Stone Cherry during their sets.

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The full list of winners is as follows:

Best New Band – Devil You Know

Dimebag Darrell ‘Shredder’ – Misha Mansoor of Periphery

Breakthrough Artist – Of Mice & Men

Best Underground Band – Wardruna

Best UK Band – Iron Maiden

Best Live Band – Killswitch Engage

Best International Band – Avenged Sevenfold

Global Metal Act – Orphaned Land and Khalas

Riff Lord – Mark Tremonti

King of the Internet – Devin Townsend

Inspiration – Hanoi Rocks

Album of the Year – ‘The Satanist’ – Behemoth

Icon – Michael Schenker

Spirit of Hammer – Darth Vader – Dave Prowse

The Golden God – Mikael Åkerfeldt

Game of the Year – Grand Theft Auto V

Video of the Year – ‘Party Like It’s The End Of The World’ – Steel Panther

 

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Micro Terror Wins Amp of the Year Award

The Orange Micro Terror has been named Instrument Amplifier of the Year at The Music and Sound Retailer Awards 2013.

 

Award

Everyone at Orange is delighted that the Micro Terror has been named Instrument Amplifier of the Year at The Music & Sound Retailer Awards. Our thanks go out to Music and Sound Retailer.

Pictured below is Orange Amplification’s Founder and CEO Cliff Cooper receiving the award from Dan Ferrisi, Editor of The Music & Sound Retailer.

The full list of winners in all categories can be found here:

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Orange Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2013

Orange Amplification is delighted to be the headline sponsor of the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards for the second consecutive year.

The 2013 awards promise to be even bigger & better, with more explosive live performances and heavy metal mayhem.

The Orange Amplification Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 2013 takes place on the 17th June 2013 at the IndigO2 with Motörhead, one of the world’s most seminal rock bands headlining what will be their most intimate show in years. Motörhead states, “It’s awesome to be headlining our first ever award show. It’s an honour to play some kick ass rock’n’roll at the Golden Gods Awards.’

Orange Amps endorsees are set to dominate this year’s annual homage to metal with twelve of them nominated for awards. Bleed From Within and Bury Tomorrow are up for the Best New Band award, While She Sleeps, Asking Alexandria and Kvelertak compete for the Breakthrough award and Bring Me The Horizon look for votes as the Best UK Band. Deftones, Stone Sour and Down are challenging each other for the Best International Band award, Clutch and Limp Bizkit are rivals for the Best Live Act award and Jason Newsted’s Return are going for the Metal As F**k award. With Orange Amps, the amp of choice for metal guitarists everywhere, these awards could be an orange ‘whitewash’. Vote for your favourite bands and be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets that money cannot buy.

‘Orange Amps are an integral part of the new hard rock and heavy metal scene’ commented Damon Waller, Managing Director, ‘being here championing the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, which are designed to celebrate metal’s real success stories, shows that Orange Amps care and will be setting the tone for years to come.’

To find out more about the Orange gear and their artists nominated for this year’s awards visit www.orangeamps.com. For more about the Golden Gods awards, vote for your favourite bands and be in with a chance to win free tickets go to goldengods.metalhammer.co.uk

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Orange Amps Appoints Parsons Music as Exclusive Distributor for China and Hong Kong

Parsons

 

Orange are pleased to announce the appointment of Parsons Music as the exclusive distributor for all Orange Products in China and Hong Kong.

Please visit www.parsonsmusic.com for further information.

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Wanting Guitarist Sean Z signs for Orange Amps

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Guitarist, song writer, producer and band director, Sean Z has been busy of late. Following a successful tour of North America, the Vancouver based guitarist is currently touring Singapore and Malaysia with Wanting, a rising star in China.

Wanting Qu (also known as Qu Wanting; Chinese 曲婉婷) (October 10, 1983 in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese-Canadian pianist, singer and songwriter based in Vancouver. In 2009, she became the first Chinese artist to be signed to the Nettwerk label; she is managed by Terry McBride. Her first album, Everything In The World (jointly released with Universal Music China in 2012) went platinum in China within its first week on sale, and her singles You Exist in My Song and Drenched were used in the soundtrack for the Hong Kong film Love in the Buff. Qu was raised in Harbin, but came to Canada at 16 to study.

Vancouver-based singer-songwriter, Wanting, releases her first full-length studio album, Everything In The World, on Nettwerk Records. Wanting, a self-taught musician with a voice similar to that of Chantal Kreviazuk, Anna Nalick, and Christina Perri, has been recognized in the early stages of her career. Having already sound-tracked the upcoming Chinese film Love in the Buff, appeared on a Mercedes Benz sampler, and amassed combined views of millions on Chinese YouTube, she is an artist to be on the lookout for. Wanting’s piano-swept music has won a following because her compositions pop musings that plumb emotion & resonate universally. The lilting first single “Life Is Like a Song” is a reflection on life s ebbs and flows and the cascading song “Drenched,” is about surrendering oneself to love. Meanwhile, “You Exist in My Song,” sung in Mandarin, is about old friends alive in one’s thoughts.

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Orange Amps at Winter NAMM 2013

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Orange Amps have been busy posting photographs of Days 1 -4 of this year’s Winter NAMM on their Facebook page.

Click HERE for some great images of our newest products, Artist signing events and maybe even see a surprise visitor or two to Orange Amps always popular stand.

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