Village Sounds Agency is an Australian booking agency that represents the live touring of Australasian artists.
Background & Agency Growth Founded in 1999 by Powderfinger booking agent Jessica Ducrou, the agency has grown to have offices in Byron Bay, Sydney & Melbourne. Ducrou started in the music industry working at Rolling Stone Magazine and later booking the Lansdowne Hotel in Sydney. Prior to starting Village Sounds Agency, in 1996 Ducrou founded Homebake festival in partnership with International Music Concepts (IMC) with a debut lineup that included Grinspoon, Silverchair, Spiderbait and more.
In 2001, Ducrou and Paul Piticco co-founded the annual Byron Bay festival Splendour in the Grass to give Powderfinger a platform to perform on. Village Sounds was the primary presenter of Splendour in the Grass from 2001 to 2016, when the company merged with Secret Sounds.
In 2008, Evan Davis of The Harbour Agency joined Village Sounds Agency and was subsequently named in The Music Network’s 30 Under 30 in 2010.
In 2016, Village Sounds Agency was brought under the umbrella of Secret Sounds which consists of Splendour in the Grass, Falls Music & Arts Festival, Secret Sounds Touring, Secret Service Artist Management, Dew Process, Create/Control, Dew Process Publishing, Secret Sounds Brand Partnerships, Whole Lot of Love, and Secret Service Public Relations.
In 2016, Jessica Ducrou and Paul Piticco were named #2 in The Music’s annual Power 50, listing the top 50 most powerful people in the Australian Music Industry.
Artist Roster As of July 2018, Village Sounds represents the careers of:
360 Airling ALTA Ara Koufax Art vs Science The Babe Rainbow Bad//Dreems Bernard Fanning Big Scary Birds of Tokyo Cameron Avery CC:DISCO! Christopher Port Cloud Control Courtney Barnett Cub Sport The Creases DMA’S DRELLER DRO CAREY Dune Rats Fascinator Fazerdaze Fractures G Flip The Grates Green Buzzard Gyroscope Hatchie Hockey Dad Illy Jarrow The Kite String Tangle Last Dinosaurs The Living End Mansionair Megan Washington The Mess Hall Methyl Ethel Moohki No Mono Obscura Hail Ocean Grove Oh Pep! PEZ Seekae Super Cruel Totally Mild Touch Sensitive Tropical Fuck Storm Vallis Alps Vance Joy Violent Soho Wafia Ziggy Ramo
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