What is Fame Games

Fame Games is not “just a music radio show.” In fact, it’s nothing short of a revolution in how music is selected and promoted today. Fame Games gives the best independent artists valuable A&R opportunities, advice and career guidance, as well as a potentially massive new audience through network radio play based on merit (finally!), compiled daily using a sophisticated song evaluation system.

Fame Games introduces discerning listeners to the very best new music, produced by “undiscovered” independent and “unsigned” artists. Shockingly, the quality of music which reaches the top of the Fame Games charts easily rivals (and often outstrips) the quality of music listeners are force-fed by national network radio and TV.

Fame Games is formatted as an entertaining, daily radio show, with something for everyone. New music is showcased and discussed and put in context for new fans to discover and embrace. The show is a “front” for MMI’s complex song evaluation system which continues to find the very best new artists and songs every day. The show’s host, DJ Crier, is supported by a diversified judging panel which includes accomplished music industry professionals as well as representatives of divergent demographics, in order to best reflect upon any song’s “crossover” potential.

With incisive song analyses, entertaining presenters, frequent world-famous guests on “The Red Carpet” and most importantly showcases of the best music you never knew existed, Fame Games is guaranteed to keep you glued to your radio day in and day out!

Fame Games also features the exclusive “Cowell Factor,” presented by Tony Cowell (Simon’s older, wiser brother and head of CowellMedia). This strategic alliance has nothing to do with the likes of American Idol or X-Factor. In fact, it’s a wholehearted endorsement of something quite opposite. Tony’s come onboard to help Fame Games to discover (and place!) real, un-manufactured world-class musical talent!

Fame Games airs daily through CitadelMedia (ABC) radio networks, as well as on demand, online on the Fame Games and MeerMusic sites and affiliated sites.

Fame Games is the best place for artists and fans to meet, and entertain realistic hopes of saving the world from bad music!

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Band Members;
Paul Lisak

Singer, songwriter and guitarist, Paul Lisak is a self-taught musician of Franco-Russian origin, who grew up in London. He is also a distinguished award winning painter, who evokes memories of Caravaggio with his darkly, renaissance-like brush strokes. His style produces highly figurative paintings stooped in renaissance and baroque techniques, but firmly rooted in contemporary themes such as multiculturalism and the controversial war in Iraq.

Hamzah Bashir-Khan

Born and bred in London, of Pakistani origin, took up the bass guitar 5 years ago after seeing the ´´Who live at the Isle of Wight´´ DVD – a life changing experience. His main aim is to write and improvise in equal measure, and with equal ability, both in the studio and on stage, because as he puts it ´´Music is both intellect and emotion neither one survives fully without the other.

Tomek

Seasoned drummer of polish origin, with 20 years experience.

Music Style/Genre
As a band, it’s always hard to exactly describe one’s sound, but think if you will of bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, throw in a mixture of sounds like Radiohead, U2 or even Muse, and you’ll find ATI somewhere in that pool of music. The band can go from simple, tight ballads to fusing Indian karnatic riffs with psychedelic blues. As for lyrics, many themes prove a source of inspiration. You live in a very wide world, right? But as a general rule, personal stories and experiences are the ones that ring the truest in a song, so we focus on those. So check After the Ice out…we will surprise!

General Music Style
Rock G

Full Bio
“Paul Lisak & After The Ice”, a London-based rock band that could be described in turn as both indie and psychedelic, but with an equally strong feel for the mainstream, having good cross over songs in their catalogue.

This trio features Paul Lisak on guitar and vocals, Hamzah Bashir-Khan on bass and Tomek on drums.

They’ve been together for two years now (early 2007) and have since recorded their debut EP at the Way studio in London, as well as producing a video with PTE Media to accompany their debut single “It Happens All The Time”.

The band has been touring solidly for the past 12 months, working with London promoters the likes of Feed me Music, and playing in venues such as the Clapham Grand, the 229, the Sound and the O2 Carling Academy in Islington, London. Though they love the studio, their sound and energy truly come alive on stage.

2008 culminated in two major events for the band

The first was winning one of the two UK Breakout finals shows held at the O2 Carling Academy (London), organised by the Jar Music Group. The prize headlining the Maldives Breakout Festival in December 2008 in front of a crowd 15000 strong, an event that was broadcast by TVM and MTV Asia in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Qatar, India, Indonesia and Eastern Australia, clocking up audience figures of over 6M.
Their video “It Happens All The Time” was also aired, as a result, on MTV Europe, and the band has since been voted Best Band of the Maldives Breakout Festival 2008.

The second has been the regular airing of their EP on ABC’s Fame Games, a US radio show dedicated to the discovery and promotion of indie music, and broadcast in 150 countries worldwide. This, in turn, saw ATI win “Best Male Vocalist” in their Effigy Awards in January 2009, as well as being nominated for Best indie group and Best Song.
After the ice is now aired on a weekly basis on this show, as well as on “Radio voice of Maldives”, “Capital Radio 95.6” and “DhiFM 95.2FM”

2009 will see the band touring the O2 Academies all over the UK, promoting their single which is to be released this year, and a further autumn tour to South Asia (Singapore, India, Dubai, Malaysia and Thailand).

Short Bio
“Paul Lisak & After The Ice”, a London-based rock band that could be described as both indie and psychedelic, but with an equally strong feel for the mainstream, having good cross over songs in their catalogue. This trio features Paul Lisak on guitar and vocals, Hamzah Bashir-Khan on bass and Tomek on drums. They’ve been together for two years now and have since recorded their debut EP and a video for their single “It Happens All The Time”. The band has been touring solidly for the past 12 months, and though they love the studio, their sound and energy truly come alive on stage.