A massive congratulations to this Week’s Featured Artist Amy & Ant! They will be heading to Queensland’s outback later this year to be part of the line-up of for the new Woop Woop Festival. If you haven’t heard about it yet, then do yourself a favour and check it out. It’s a brand new festival …
On the precipice: a week that defined the reality of live music in NSW
On the 1st Feb 2019, my founding partner responded to a piece from the ABC lamenting the state of the live music industry: How will live music survive. Just shy of two weeks later and we are once again confronted with the reality that, in parts of Australia, live music has been firmly seated in …
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Low pay, long hours and a changing market: How will live music survive…?
The music industry is changing rapidly, and the one constant seems to be that musicians don’t get rewarded for their talents! Keith Sue my founding partner, recently stumbled across a heart-breaking article by ABC’s Lisa Herbert, “Low pay, long hours and a changing market means musicians have to change their tune”. For those of your …
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Featured Artist: Plum Green
“I’m a witch with my cauldron” is a befitting statement from this week’s Featured Artists Plum Green. Seemingly it does not matter if you are seated at Plum’s dinner table or in the band’s audience, as either way you will leave gorged, satiated and roused having feasted on the tantalising and erotic artistry that Plum …
Featured Artist: Not a Lemur
Not a Lemur are live music lovers and lovers in life. They are also this week’s Featured Artist. Rubi Matthews and Dominic Smith are the impressive couple behind this musical ensemble. We are not sure what came first to bring this duo together the music or the love. Either way it is obvious the chemistry …
Featured Artist: Black Bird Hum
Swing into 2019 with these chilled-out tunes and check out this week’s Featured Artist, Black Bird Hum. A band who evidently love playing for live audiences. Especially given the amount of time they spend on the road. Heading across the Australian East Coast to perform on hundreds of stages. Black Bird Hum started off as a 3-piece …
Featured Artist: Mel Kay
More than a singer songwriter, this week’s Featured Artist Mel Kay is an inspiration. Mel Kay graduated with honors from Western Australian Academy Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2015 only to be diagnosed with Lyme disease . Living through the nightmare of uncertainty around this illness, Mel focused on her healing. Turning to writing as her …
Six8: Inspiration for your next live music experience
There have now been hundreds of hours of amazing, local live music booked through Six8. Where better to seek inspiration for your next live music experience than the amazing events that have taken place to date! For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about…Six8 is the extraordinary new platform (iOS app and website) …
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Featured Artist: Rachel Caddy
Switching a science degree for music is a decision that we applaud this week’s Featured Artist Rachel Caddy on. Audiences across Australia are grateful that Rachel followed her talent and gifts and like many others we too have become bewitched with singer, songwriter Rachel Caddy. Alluring audiences with her melodic charm one can’t help but …
Six8: The app everyone is using to create live music experiences
Create Live Music Experiences. There are now over 1,000 amazing, gig-ready artists and bands available to book through Six8. Six8 is the extraordinary new platform (iOS app and website) that people across Australia are using to create live music experiences. With the touch of a few buttons, hosts have been inviting artists to perform live …
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