Urthboy, Hermitude Join Artist Voice

Four artists from the Elefant Traks roster have signed with the Artist Voice booking agency, label head Tim Levinson confirmed today.

Previously with New World Artists, Urthboy, The Herd, Hermitude and Horrorshow have made the jump to one of the country's biggest agencies - leaving on amicable terms.

“We're really excited to be joining Artist Voice,” Levinson told theMusic.com.au today. “We're sad to be leaving New World Artists, we've had a great working relationship with them.”

The sentiment was echoed by New World Artists' Julia Davis, who told theMusic, “Our focus has been change in the last couple of years. We're really focused on younger and emerging acts… one of our mandates is to create a framework for younger acts, which is where we started and we'd like to get back to that.”

Earlier in the year NWA split with the Crucial Music roster.

She highlighted the recent successes of Allday, Northlane and British India as big prospects for the immediate future. It is understood that NWA have already booked a portion of the four departing artists' shows for the remainder of 2013.

Other Elefant Traks artists will remain with their current representation, including Joelistics with Premier Artists and The Tongue with Niche.

In other agency news, Mark Lackey has spun-off his acts from Village Sounds to form Wildfire and Damian Costin has launched 123 Agency with ex-Premier acts.