Music Canada Live, a new national association that will represent members of the live music community, has announced that Erin Benjamin will become its first Executive Director. Ms. Benjamin, formerly the Executive Director of both the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA) and the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (now known as Folk Music Ontario), has spent the […]
In September 2014, Marrickville Council tabled their vision for the industrial lands adjacent to Sydenham Station. Two parallel and ongoing pieces of work are focused on these industrial lands – in support of the live music industry, Marrickville and Leichhardt Councils’ work with the City of Sydney’s Live Music Taskforce and Council’s involvement in the […]
In partnership with the University of Tasmania, the Live Music Office’s new research program will develop a localised research framework to capture an accurate snapshot of live music activity throughout Australia. The program is currently running a consumer survey to investigate the extent to which live music makes a social and economic contribution to Australia. Lead […]
On Tuesday 2 September 2014 Marrickville Council tabled the LIVE MUSIC MARRICKVILLE plan, an initiative of the joint Marrickville and Leichhardt Council Live Music Reference Group. Read the Council papers here. Aligned with the City of Sydney and Leichhardt Council live music plans, the LIVE MUSIC MARRICKVILLE policy platform aims to optimise both planning and regulatory functions […]
Venues exist within a co-regulatory environment across liquor, planning and environmental protection laws. The usual practice is for these provisions to be developed without consideration of how they will interact with the other regulations. The Live Music Forum established by the Victorian State Government brings all these parties together with the live music sector to […]
In an important development for the Sydney live music and performance scene, on Tuesday 26 August Leichhardt Council unanimously endorsed the recommendations of the Parramatta Rd Live Music Reference Group without amendment. Introduced to Council by Mayor and Reference Group member Darcy Byrne, background to Council was also given by Leichhardt Council Director Environment and […]
The operation of the noise restrictions[1] from the QLD Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation was the fundamental issue for musicians and venues outside the Fortitude Valley Special Entertainment Precinct in Brisbane and in greater Queensland in forums and contact with the Live Music Office in 2014. Musicians and venues identified a number of problematic […]
The Live Music Office today launches their new website at https://livemusicoffice.com.au/ along with a new research initiative to better understand the social and economic contribution that live music makes to Australia. Live Music Office Policy Director John Wardle said, “This is an important time for Australian music policy. Cities such as Sydney, Wollongong, Adelaide and Melbourne […]