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Australian artist Muki has just returned home from MARZ, an exclusive invite-only South Korean pop writing camp.

It will be interesting to see if this year sees him move from theatres to arenas in North America.

“I want to make sure that others don’t go through what I went through.”

"A thundering admission that music industry figures have been selling directly to secondary sites."

Last year's instalment of Umbrella: Winter City Sounds saw over 1,300 performers playing to approximately 50,000 people.

"We screwed up."

In 2004, Microsoft launched MSN Music. Two years later they closed it down and began Zune Music. That was rebranded to Xbox Music, and became Groove Music in 2015, which is now also gone.

They’re up for Best International Band against some heavyweight contenders – Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Metallica and Green Day.

New to the board are: Stu MacQueen, Laura Vozzo, Troy Sincock and Madeleine Frost, joining Amanda Pepe, Elizabeth Elliot, Craig McKay and Brenton Gowland.

“We rolled this out wrong and could have done a much better job."