Australian Government pumps $560,000 AUD into live music creating a new office

[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE]Live music around Australia will get a boost from the federal government with the creation of a new office dedicated to its promotion.

Labor has promised to spend $560,000 over the next three years on the National Live Music Office, which will run within the Australasian Performing Rights Association.

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Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke said the office would look at key policy, regulatory and process reforms that would support a robust live music scene.

Live music ambassadors including Katie Noonan, Suffa from the Hilltop Hoods, Stavros Yiannoukas from Bluejuice, Kav Temperley, Kevin Mitchell from Jebediah, Dave Faulkner from the Hoodoo Gurus, Leah Flanagan and Dewayne Everettsmith will support the new national office.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/07/28/12/16/govt-spends-560-000-to-support-live-music[/URL]

[confinedUser]

thats pretty awesome.

[thisispain]

no nick cave???
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlS4BwTUQw[/media]

australia's finest

[Lonestriper]

The Sydney live music scene has one foot and two hands in the grave at this point thanks to licensing laws that shat on any notion of live music with noise above normal conversation levels, I guess this office would have been useful 10 years ago but whatever

[editline]28th July 2013[/editline]

Hell only last year (maybe ever this year?) did a local council which encompassed what has long been considered the live music strip in Sydney actually do anything to rectify the fact that all the venues were dying due to more credence being given to residents making noise complaints. All it took was the fucking Annandale hotel (where most popular Australian bands got gigs early in their careers) to go into remission before they did anything.

[thisispain]

they did the same thing in san francisco and it killed off tiny shows that people would throw in their houses

and everyone's like "why is the music scene in SF so dead" and its because the governments cracking down on them

[killerteacup]

live scenes in australia are fucking atrocious in general there's no specific city in which it is still good

in fact, the only burgeoning scene in Australia atm is sort of in Brisbane and even it is quite small, so yeah

I got mad when I heard about the annandale, poor annandale it was such an excellent venue, sort of like modern CBGB in sydney

[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE=killerteacup;41622529]in fact, the only burgeoning scene in Australia atm is sort of in Brisbane and even it is quite small, so yeah[/QUOTE]

Feels good to live near Brisbane

Still stuck in Ipswich though :suicide:

[Bradyns]

Newcastle is quite lively! I hope this can fund more local musicians and bands..

[I]Silverchair.[/I]