Alison Bell is an Australian actor based in Melbourne, Victoria.
Born in Canberra, she completed an Arts/Law degree before undertaking acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, where she graduated in 2004.
Bell has worked in television, documentary film and theatre. She is perhaps best known for her performances on the ABC TV series Laid, for which she was nominated for an AACTA Award and in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Doubt, for which she won a Helpmann Award.
I Rock is an Australian comedy / drama television series which first screened on ABC2 from 3 May 2010.
The series revolves around Nash Taylor and his struggling indie rock band, Boy Crazy Stacey, trying to make it big on the Australian music scene. The series was shot in the pub scene of the inner west suburbs of Sydney. Guest stars include Tim Rogers from Sydney band You Am I, Cassette Kids and radio broadcaster personality Scott Dooley.
The series stars Josh Mapleston. It was written by Josh Mapleston with David Fedirchuk and Rob Macdonald, produced by David Fedirchuk & Rob Macdonald and directed by Rob Macdonald.
I Rock season 1 can now be purchased on DVD as of 1 July 2010.
The Independence Rock Festival is a two-day music festival held annually at Chitrakoot Grounds, Mumbai. It is organised by E18, A division of the Network 18 Media. It is the oldest and the biggest rock festival in India, and was included in MTV Iggy's list of "Top 10 Music Festivals Around the World to Check Out in 2010!."
Independence Rock is India's oldest & biggest Rock Music Festival, and has earned the sobriquet - "Woodstock of India". It is essentially the biggest platform for Rock Bands in India and has been the cradle and barometer of the Indian Rock Music scene.
Almost every major Indian Rock act in the last 26 years has been discovered playing here, and every Indian Rock Band that has ever made any impact in India has been discovered at Independence Rock; thus making the festival a Rite of Passage for Indian Rock Acts over the last 24 years.
For over 26 years, Independence Rock has been committed to promoting Independent Music and Artists, and has given them a platform and promoted Indian artists, encouraged them and has matched their stoic perseverance with steadfast confidence in their talent. Today, these artists have found recognition on a national level and their pertinacity has brought them strong following across the nation. Independence Rock is proud to have played a significant role in bringing to prominence almost all of India's renowned rock bands.
I Rock may refer to
Josh Mapleston is an Australian actor, stand up comic and scriptwriter best known for his acting role as Nash Taylor on Australian Comedy I Rock.
Before getting on the scriptwriting scene – Mapleston began his career expecting to be a star. His first job out of university – as a researcher on Nine's McLeod's Daughters – was a brutal reality check. Rather than crafting characters and plot lines, he found himself researching the habits of cows and sheep. Within three months, he was fired. He eventually found another job in television, until 2007 when he secured a writing credit for Home and Away and has since written twelve episodes, becoming a freelance writer for them.
Josh's writing credits include ;-
Home and Away, 2007–present (12 Episodes)
Shortland Street, 2007 (1 Episode)
I Rock, 2010 (8 Episodes)
It is insulting
'Cause I can't rap for my job, job, job, job, job
I'd quit this bullshit
But I can't live like a slob, slob, slob, slob, slob
The way I want to baby
Swimming in hip-hop-hip-hop-hip
I want to sing for you and show you how I rock
My situation's kinda dire
Because I'm one of the livest rhymers
That's also a nine-to-fiver
(I gotta wait until nighttime)
To rhyme in ciphers
My supervisor's always asking why my eyes are tired
I thank God I'm not a firefighter
'Cause every morning I drink coffee
'Til I'm nice and wired
It keeps me up until lunchtime
And then I eat but the Niggeritis is unkind
I fell asleep at a red light one time
In front of middle schoolers on an afternoon bus ride
I'm unsigned
So that's how it is sometimes
Wishing I could punch my card with a punch line
Every night something's crackin'
From regular grungy rapping
To underground funk and dancing
I put my best foot first
On Monday nights with Blaque Whole Suns at the Good Hurt
I go to work then I rap at night
And so my Tuesday appetite's satisfied at Raggsta Nites
I've seen more rump than an ass doctor
On Wednesday nights with Tommy Blak at the Grasshopper
Or I could roll to the Lower End
If I can't pay the toll
I gotta ask No again
(Thursday's work day)
You already knowing kid
I'm a J.U.I.C.E. board member and a Blowedian
My Friday night yearning hunger
Is curbed with serving suckers and herbs at the Urban Underground
Hear the sound of a tired rapper