Melbourne Music Bank: Heloise

The Melbourne Music Bank competition is open until August 23 and with each New Year it’s drastically changing an emerging musicians life. Last year Heloise was lucky enough, all due to her talent, to be the winner of the competition.
Winning the competition meant that Heloise spent time recording at Sing Sing Studios, had a film clip made by Wilk, album artwork made, media training, her song played in a Bank of Melbourne ad amongst other incredible opportunities.
Having freshly moved to Melbourne from Tasmania before the competition, Heloise lists even the fellow musicians and industry professionals met during the process as an incredible stepping stone towards her career.
“Solely the people that I’ve met have helped me so much – I’ve had so much expertise and guidance that it’s pretty much priceless in an industry like this. Just meeting people who are willing to help you out is great, it can be such a big lonely world out there and the more people to help you the better,” Heloise says.
“Also having that validation as an artist that what you’re doing is worth it. Not necessarily that you need to be validated, but it’s one of those career choices that’s creative and so personal and a lot of the time you can be filled with self doubt.
“Having the encouragement from people who have been doing this their entire life, and to pat you on the back and tell you it’s all worth it, that’s been the major thing for me and makes me want to work harder.”
Heloise is currently in the lead up to releasing her EP and would love to work with Wilk again in creating the film clips to go alongside it – working with him the first time was so incredible once just wasn’t enough!
“Wilk is so cool and such a good human being. He had us over for dinner and cooked us curry, just to get to know us and the music. We caught up a few times and he came to me with the idea of the train and I loved it and thought it was perfect for the song,” she says.
“I went out on a little train out in Moulden, which is the cutest little railway, and travelled from Moulden to Castlemaine. It was such a nice day and I had the hair and makeup artist pampering me. I hadn’t done a film clip before that, so it was interesting to see what it was like. It was an awesome experience and a great thing to have under my belt.”
Really, all that Heloise hopes to continue doing is what she loves: making music, and the Bank of Melbourne with their initiative have made it that little bit more possible.
“All I really want is to be successful, and success for me is being able to do my favourite things; to perform live, record in the studio and record film clips and go on tour. So if I can do that full time for the rest of my life that’s a success in my eyes,” she says.
If you’d like to follow in the steps of Heloise and change your pathway into the music industry, visit http://info.bankofmelbourne.com.au/melbmusicbank/ for more information and be sure to enter before August 23.
Written by Amanda Sherring