Opinion

The decision in Queensland last weekend to cancel the live music entertainment for a 100% capacity crowd at a rugby league match at Suncorp Stadium due to ‘COVID restrictions’ shows that some…

Still haven’t recovered from the last COVID-19 burn out? Here’s how I want to encourage every artist and manager to stay positive AND creative during this lockdown. First and foremost it is ok to…

This week CEO of the self-proclaimed ‘fourth major’ BMG, Hartwig Masuch, sent a message to the artists and songwriters signed to the company that concluded with the statement “I want you to know that…

Anyone who has called London home will be familiar with the unusual flow of buses. You wait half an hour, then three come at once. Right now, Australia’s music industry is a bit like those red…

How do you solve a problem like “toxic workplace culture?”

The live entertainment sector has been smashed by COVID-19, but it's yet to receive much government sympathy or support.

Some female jazz musicians find the professional environment hostile.

I have always been motivated to help people. A common trait I have gleaned from my time in Artist Management is that the best managers have a desire to identify talent and bring it out in people by…

DH Lawrence, the prolific writer and poet wrote, “Once a book is fathomed, once it is known, and its meaning fixed or established, it is dead.” The pressure on artists to create something that has…

We need to do better in putting a floor under losses for the live-performance industry.