Industrial Strength: May 31
Chisel, Doc, Kelly, for Adelaide Walk of Fame
Cold Chisel (pictured), Doc Neeson, Paul Kelly, Glenn Shorrock, Jimmy Barnes (solo), Kasey Chambers, Guy Sebastian, Ruby Hunter, Beccy Cole, David Campbell, Rachael Leahcar, Greta Bradman and Robyn Archer were among musicians with a South Australian background who got the public vote for the Adelaide Festival Centre’s new Walk of Fame which opens next year.
But the vote was not just for SA names. The public was asked to choose from 43 who appeared at the Centre for each year from 1973, when it was built, to 2015.
Other contemporary music artists who got the public gong were John Farnham, Chrissie Amphlett, Tina Arena, Nick Cave, Kate Ceberano, Peter Allen, Olivia Newton John, The Seekers, James Morrison, Tim Minchin and John Williamson.
The chosen also came from a critics panel and with another round from the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust. They included Dame Edna Everage, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Sir Robert Helpmann, Clive James, Dame Joan Sutherland, Garry McDonald, Anthony Warlow, Billy Connolly, Deborah Mailman, Rhonda Burchmore, Adam Hills and Guy Pearce.
CBAA declares June 3 National Day of Action
The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA)’s petition — launched to protest the Federal Budget’s cuts of $1.4 million p.a. funding to keep community radio stations broadcasting on digital in five capital cities – had by last night hit 25,479 signatures. It is targeting both major parties to promise to restore financial support when either of them gets into power. Check it out at www.keepcommunityradio.org.au
The CBAA has also declared Friday June 3 to be a National Day of Action. It explains, “It will be a day of information-sharing, petition-signing and raising awareness among our listeners of the very real threat of station closures, because if no-one can hear us on the digital platform, what’s the point?”
In the meantime also check out Melbourne community radio legend Kate Welsman’s passionate piece on the role community radio plays in our lives. The piece is here.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, film
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have a new album out in September – and rather than the norm of media previews, singles and streaming exclusives, the band will “launch” the long player through a cinema movie.
There has been no official confirmation about any of these, and the title(s) of the album and film are not known. The news was first revealed Los Angeles art house chain Laemmle Theatre’s website, that the “new album will be released at midnight into 9th September 2016, with the film making its premiere on 8th September.” The “performance film” will feature “black and white, colour and 3-D” footage. The choice in filming style is said to reflect the “intimacy and starkness” of the album. Whether the album/film release will have a staggered global release, and whether September is the Australian issue, remains to be seen.
Music Tasmania announces executive positions
The new Music Tasmania board has met to vote in three executive positions. Tim King was unanimously voted in as President, replacing David Wedd, who remains on the board.
King is Programming and Development Manager with Festival of Voices and also runs creative production business Sylphonic Productions. In the past 12 months, he’s developed new opportunities for local talent through Music Tasmania including the Homebrewed Stage at the Falls Music and Arts Festival in 2015 which gave 30 Tasmanian artists the chance to perform.
Vice President is musician and Win TV manager and presenter Tony Fox. Amy Fogarty who runs Meraki Management, is Secretary. The board will appoint a Treasurer. Also on the board are Brad Harbeck, Ange Boxall, Sarah Triffitt and Jed Appleton.
Applications for 2016 Stigwood Fellowship open
Applications have opened for the third Stigwood Fellowships, which provide personalised professional development to South Australian musicians and industry entrepreneurs and help them forge global connections. It is run through the Music Development Office ([email protected]). It is named after the late entrepreneur Robert Stigwood, who was born in SA and moved to London where he became immensely successful in music, films and theatre.
There are two parts to the program. For Industry Fellows, Stuart MacQueen of Wonderlick Entertainment will mentor emerging South Australian music industry entrepreneurs who are working in music management or other areas of artist representation. For Artist Fellows, it will tailor programs to the needs of the participating artists and may include song writing, production, business skills, marketing and public relations, and attendance at conferences and high-level industry meetings.
Closing date is Friday June 10 at 5 pm. If you need to speak to anyone about your application, email Project Manager Dan Crannitch, at [email protected].
The Avalanches reveal album collaborators … we think
Danny Brown, Ariel Pink, Father John Misty, Kirin J Callinan, and Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux could be among the acts involved in the second Avalanches album. In the latest teaser, the band has put up posters in cities in Australia, the US and the UK, with each country given a telephone hotline. Those who call the number get a looped sample of two songs, Subways, with the other The Wozard Of Iz under the name BRAINZ. A video trailer called Whatever Happened To The Avalanches? explains the 16 year gap since their sole album 2000’s Since I Left You and also includes heads-up from the above. Well sort of heads up: asked about working with the outfit, Father John responds, “Um, What are the Avalanches?”
The trailer seems to be from a full-length documentary on the band. It ends with the message, Coming soon.” Then, “Hopefully.” Danny Brown seems to be on the track Frankie Sinatra written by Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi. He also seems to be the feature on The Wozard Of Iz.
Victoria begins Good Music Neighbours venue sound-proofing
As part of its $22 million Music Works initiative to strengthen the state’s live music sector, Victoria’s Andrews Labor Government has launched the Good Music Neighbours grants program. Venues showcasing original live music which need advice or work on sound-proofing can apply for up to $25,000 for matched cash funding from the venue. Good Music Neighbours was developed by Creative Victoria with Music Victoria and the Live Music Office.
The role of a dedicated Industry Liaison is being advertised, to work out of Music Victoria’s offices, to provide advice and assistance for venues. Applications for the Good Music Neighbours program 2016 close at 5pm, Monday July 13, full details at www.musicvictoria.com.au/gmn.
Umbrella Music drops PR service
Sydney based Umbrella Music is dropping its PR service to focus on its core business of artist management. Their roster includes Bec Sandridge, Cloud Control, Cub Sport, Elizabeth Rose, Fishing, Jack Grace, PVT, The Rubens, Saskwatch, Urthboy and Winterbourne. Publicist Stef Kubowicz will continue to do PR on a freelance basis, “with some really inspiring artists and clients” and can be contacted at [email protected]
NSW rapper wins at National Indigenous Arts Awards
NSW south coast rapper, producer and soundtrack composer Nooky (Corey Webster) had a win at the Australia Council for the Arts’ National Indigenous Arts Awards held at the Sydney Opera House. Nowra-based Nooky took out the $20,000 The Dreaming Award, provided to an artist aged 18-26 to create a major body of work via mentoring and partnerships.
The awards’ $50,000 prestigious Red Ochre went to Ngarrindjeri weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie, from South Australia while interdisciplinary artist Vicki Couzens, from Victoria, won this year’s Fellowship.
Big Pineapple Music sold out
Last Saturday’s 4th Big Pineapple Music Festival in Queensland was sold out a few days before, for the third time in a row. Ten thousand tickets were sold, even after promoters increased capacity by an extra 1500. Promoter Marc Pico said that 70% of attendees came from outside the Sunshine Coast. Public and police praised its laid back vibe, although about 20 people arrested on drug issues.
Airlie Beach Music announces first of 74 acts
The 4th Airlie Beach Music Festival (Thursday November 3 to Sunday 6) in the picturesque Whitsundays announced the first 24 acts of its 74-strong bill. They include Richie Ramone, Tim Finn, Russell Morris, Troy Cassar-Daley,
GANGgajang, Daryl Braithwaite, James T of Canned Heat, Sandie Thom, Chain, Tiki Taane of Salmonella Dub, as well as festival ambassadors Bill Chambers and 8 Ball Aitken. Making use of its tropical surrounds, the main stage is under a massive marquee on the water at the Whitsundays Sailing Club.
More Festivals Update: reports, commissions, Drake tribute
* Queenscliff Music in Victoria reported a net profit of $112,854 for 2015, down from $214,060 the year before. This was due to a drop of ticket sales by $72,225 and a drop in bar sales of $16,444, the Geelong Advertiser reported. Meantime, sales for 2016 have begun briskly, with 91% of early bird tix already sold.
* The music program for Music SA’s inaugural Umbrella: Winter City Sounds (July 15 to August 7) is unveiled on June 1. Twenty emerging music promoters are commissioned to present 200 shows of every genre across 60 spaces.
* Drakefest, which has been held in cities as Copenhagen, San Francisco and Stockholm – with music, masks, cut-outs and stickers of the Canadian rapper – marks its arrival in Melbourne, on June 5 at the Laundry Bar.
* This year’s EDM Summer Sessions in Darwin expects to grow its audience with its move to the Botanic Garden’s Amphitheatre. Performing over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend are ZHU, Tkay Maidza, Cormada, Slumberjack, Marlo, The Aston Shuffle and DJ Minx.
* Returning for the fourth year as part of Melbourne’s Leaps & Bounds is the free Smith Street Dreaming on Saturday July 16 from 1 pm to 5 pm. It celebrates the First Nation’s footprint in Fitzroy and Collingwood with a diverse program from jazz to hip hop and traditional dance (with a Q&A by MC Shiralee Hood with the Smith Street Parkies) in a collaboration by Yarra City Council, harcoal Lane and Neighbourhood Justice Centre.
Fifield rejects Copyright Act recommendation
Federal Arts & Communications Minister Senator Mitch Fifield has officially confirmed that the Government will not shorten the length of copyright protection for authors. It was a recommendation of the Productivity Commission.
“We have introduced legislation which came into effect last year to address the illegal downloading of content in Australia, and have consulted on further improvements to the Copyright Act to update and simplify the protections for copyright owners that will be introduced at the start of the next term of Parliament,” Fifield said in a statement.
“Recently, it has been wrongly claimed that the government is planning to reduce the life of copyright to 15 to 25 years after creation, rather than 70 years after the death of the author as it is currently. This is not something the government has considered, proposed, or intends to do.”
But other recommendations from the Productivity Commission and the Australian Law Reform Commission to replace ’fair dealing’ provisions with an American-style ’fair use’ test are still being considered. According to Fifield, “The Turnbull Government is committed to ensuring that the intellectual property system provides appropriate incentives for innovation and the production of creative works. We also need a system that does not unreasonably impede further innovation, competition, investment and access to goods and services.”
O’Sheas, Rob Hirst, video an online hit
The music video for country music duo O’Shea (Mark and Jay O’Shea) and Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst track The Truth Walks Slowly (In The Countryside) has gone viral. It’s had 550,000 views and 16,000 shares on Facebook. It’s also reached #1 on the iTunes Music Video Chart (all genres) and Top 10 on the iTunes Country Singles Chart.
The song is a tribute to Queensland farmer George Bender, who took his own life late in 2015, following a decade-long battle with coal seam gas companies. Mark O’Shea, who also produced the video, also grew up in the Darling Downs area. The song is also the first that Jay and her birth father Rob have worked together on, since being reunited five years ago.
No Fixed Address set for SA Hall of Fame induction
No Fixed Address, the first Australian indigenous reggae band to get commercial radio and video airplay in the 1980s, will be inducted into the SA Music Hall of Fame this Friday (June 3) at the Goodwood Institute in Adelaide. Thanks to a $14,000 crowd-funding campaign, they will also make a live album and DVD from their set, their first since 2008. Formed in their teens at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in North Adelaide in 1979, their songs of oppression and social injustices struck a chord, particularly We Have Survived.
Inducted are Bart Willoughby (drums), Les Graham (guitar), Ricky Harrison (vocals) and John Miller (bass) plus Vonda Last and Corey Théatre while saxplayer Veronica Rankine who died in 2001 will be lauded posthumously.
Bowling film wins I Love Live Music comp
A 60-second film about the sense of community created by live music won AMIN (Australian Music Industry Network)’s ’I Love Live Music’ competition. Sari Braithwaite’s Live from Kingsbury Bowls showed how music brought young and old together while singer songwriter Liz Stringer performs in a community bowls club. Runner up Encore, by Cesar Salmeron and Aaron Cuthbert, indicated through shots of empty spaces what venues would look like sans live music.
The ten finalists’ entries were screened at SoundKILDA in Melbourne. Seven were from Victoria, and one each from SA, Tasmania and NSW. They shared in a prize pool of $12,000.
Feedback for Palmerston Arts draft
The City of Palmerston is seeking community feedback regarding its draft Arts Strategy 2016 to 2021. It will affirm the City’s commitment to fostering and promoting the arts, and culture within the community, the awareness and promotion of local history and advocacy for increased cultural resources. Go to www.palmerstpn.nt.gov.au, submissions close Wednesday June 8.
Venue Updates: re-openings, protests, $1 sale, arrests
* Sydney’s Dolphin Hotel in Surry Hills is re-opening after a redesign by George Livissianis. It was bought by Maurice Terzini from Lantern Hotels Group earlier this year.
* Gold Coast club and venue operators are lobbying against plans by the ASF consortium to build a $2 billion hotel and casino resort in competition with Jupiters. But negotiations are continuing with the Queensland Government.
* After 13 years of showcasing local bands, burlesque, circus, spoken word and character based theatre performers, Port Kembla’s The Vault Cabaret will end in November, founders Anne-Louise Rentell and Lou Belancic announced.
* Lake Macquarie, NSW Police are investigating the gunpoint robbery of the music showcasing Lake Road Hotel on Sunday night. No one was hurt but some cash was taken.
* Brisbane’s 1890 Normanby Hotel’s plans to build a 15-storey expansion on its current car park – to include a nightclub – has been red-lined by Brisbane Council after 100 objections were lodged from nearby residents.
* Wollongong Council will vote to allow the operators of the community arts hub Phoenix Theatre to buy it… for $1. It’s not the first time that the 1200 sq. metre Bridge Street site has changed hands for that sum. Community radio VOX FM bought it for a gold coin in 2006 and “sold” it back in 2014. The same deal took place earlier with Theatre South.
* SA Police arrested and charged a man for climbing scaffolding of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Dunstan Playhouse and triggering an alarm at 4 am on Sunday. We’re not sure why but the 21 year old gets his chance to tell his story when he faces the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
* A laneway in Queensland’s Noosa Junction has become the centre of attention every first Friday of the month for the next six months. Inspired by a number of European cities, Noosa Creative Precinct has begun bringing musicians, street artists, designers and local businesses together to create events at 24 Lanyana Way. This week sees A French Butler Called Smith providing the music.
Buried Country takes to the road
Sydney music author Clinton Walker’s 2000 book, film and album Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music has a further lease of life – as a touring stage show. It features the music of Jimmy Little, Vic Simms, Kev Carmody, Lionel Rose and Archie Roach, and hopes to introduce a new generation to the roots of Aboriginal music.
Kicking off in Newcastle on August 20, Buried Country: Live In Concert winds its way around the country. Warren H. Williams, Roger Knox, Auriel Andrew, Franny Peters-Little, Leah Flanagan and Luke Peacock will front house band Backtrackers put together by guitarist and Music Director Brendan Gallagher, guitarist Buddy Knox, his bassist son Teangi Knox, Jason Walker on pedal steel and Jim Elliott from The Cruel Sea on drums.
Ten finalists for IFAC singing comp semi-final
After heats in Australia, NZ and the UK, ten next generation of opera singers aged 22 to 25 will perform at the Australian Singing Competition semi-final concert. It is on Sunday July 3 at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.
Second global chart milestone for Keith Urban
Two weeks ago when Keith Urban’s eighth studio album Ripcord debuted simultaneously at #1 on the ARIA Top 100, Billboard US Country chart and Billboard Canada Country chart, it was the second time that he’d achieved it. But last week he stayed at the top of the three charts for a second week. In Australia, The Fighter track is third most added song on radio while in the US the album has yielded his 19th and 20th chart topping track.
Urban is currently in rehearsals for his first world tour in almost three years, promising a new production and a two-hour set. It kicks off in the US this week, before he comes to Australia for a one-off appearance on September 30 to headline the Deni Ute Muster in NSW. He returns for six arena shows between December 6 to 17.
Of the six million albums he has sold worldwide, 1.2 million of those are in Australia where he has 7 x platinum albums.
Pacific Underground get lifetime achievement
New Zealand performing arts collective Pacific Underground get a lifetime achievement at the Vodafone Pacific Music Awards on June 9. Formed 17 years ago by Pos Mavaega and Tanya Muagututi’a in Christchurch, they shared stories of Pasifika communities living in New Zealand through plays, music concerts, events, CDs, tours and collaborations with artists all over the Pacific.
Previous lifetime achievement recipients are Herbs, Annie Crummer, Ardijah, Bill Sevesi and The Yandall Sisters.
Aussie music doco gets global release
Melbourne filmmaker Thomas Meadmore’s debut music documentary How To Lose Jobs & Alienate Girlfriends gets a world release on June 7. It’s a warts-and-all portrayal of two musicians and songwriters trying to go professional, But five months into its making, it depicts Meadmore’s issues as he clashes with his boss (Tony Jackson, TV Director at Lonely Planet) and his girlfriend. After screenings at film festivals in San Francisco and London, it now becomes available for download on iTunes and Amazon.
Meadmore, now UK based, has just finished editing The Guv’nor for Salon Pictures (about Britain’s toughest guy) and currently filming The Cancer Conflict about two patients, one trying alternative therapy and the other orthodox treatment.
Exhibitions #1: Melbourne music culture
To celebrate the opening of its new Fitzroy campus, COLLARTS is presenting the free DIGS Exhibition: A Celebration of Melbourne’s Music Culture And The Inner North from May 30 to June 30 at the new premises at 209 Brunswick Street. Curated by photographer Zo Damage, it captures five decades of the city’s music culture including hotspots as Fitzroy, Carlton and Collingwood. These include the Tote’s doors, gold records, limited print editions from Rennie Ellis, Ponch Hawkes and Zo Damage, and photos of bands and events as the game-changing 2010 SLAM rally.
Exhibitions #2: My Art Kills Monsters
My Art Kills Monsters is a creative look at mental health Matthew Gillett, one time Venue Manager of Sydney’s Annandale Hotel. Five years ago, a near-fatal injury after trying to stop brawl lead to a long period of depression, which he channelled into his art. Alongside his 45 pieces of work is an AV station which includes a three-minute video about the work and a soundtrack from Sticky Fingers. It is at the aMBUSH Project Space — Level 3, Central Park, 28 Broadway, Chippendale — between June 23 to 26.
Exhibition #3: Making Music In Aotearoa
Auckland Museum is setting up a dedicated New Zealand music exhibition from October 28. Volume: Making Music In Aotearoa takes in NZ music from the 1950s through displays and interactive, including the set of ‘60s pop show C’mon, vinyl records in a 1980s record store and a recording studio and a DJ-VJ booth. Memorabilia includes instruments like the first synthesiser built in the country (for Split Enz’s Eddie Rayner), clothes like Supergroove’s tracksuits and handwritten lyrics.
New guitar app from “Trizo”
Sydney instrumentalist, producer, guitar school operator and one time Thousand Needles In Red member, Tristan ’Trizo’ Bouillaut, has created a new guitar app called Guitar Get Up for aspiring axemen. Emphasising that practice is the key to sound professional, Bouillaut explains, “We have uniquely designed a guitar learning platform using backing tracks specifically written and recorded for the app, based on fourteen years teaching and twenty eight years playing experience.
“We only include those features and functions that enhance the playing experience; we’ve created four tempos in five different keys allowing you to focus your energy on playing. All keys and tempos have been carefully selected, designed & tested so you can sit down and begin playing quickly and easily. To get started, simply select a key and a preferred tempo and start practicing scales, writing leads or improvising solos. Be sure to refer to scale diagrams and video links for more.” Preview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYUfHvhbMDE
HOT FM leads in Kalgoorlie
In the second of three WA regional radio ratings, Kalgoorlie’s most popular station is Hot FM with a 33.1% share and most listened to by under-40s. Xtra Research put RadioWest at 26%, ABC Local at 14.4% and triple j at 12.7%.
Number Crunching
9.76 million viewers for the Billboard Awards, a 25% drop from the previous year.
210,000 tickets sold for Flume’s 53-date world tour from mid-July to mid-December. 22 of these are sold out.
11 back-to-back concerts by 500 performers for the Sleeping With The Steinway event on a Steinway piano to raise funds for New Zealand’s Nelson School of Music’s $6.4 million re-build.
$16 million sales price for James Murphy’s DFA Records headquarters in London.
£12,000 fine for UK’s Glastonbury Festival for allowing human sewage to leak into a stream, causing “extensive” pollution and killing fish.
And A Few Other Things…
Has Ed Sheeran quietly slipped back into NSW? Port Macquarie News reports two sightings in Laurieton, including a selfie with a local who popped in for a takeaway at the Bollywood Indian restaurant where Ed was apparently dining in.
Mark Ronson posted a photo of himself, Kevin Parker of Tame Impala and Lady Gaga in the studio together. Parker says that Rihanna covering one of his songs on her current album not only has sparked a number of people wanting to collaborate but provided “a boost in Instagram followers.”
Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams are reportedly set for their first duet in 16 years, for a track on the Robbster’s next album. Their first was Kids in 2000.
Dami Im’s runner-up win at Eurovision has seen major TV networks muscle in for her first shows back in Australia. The Sunday Mail reported that an all-inclusive welcome comeback performance in her hometown of Logan in Queensland on the weekend at John Paul College was thwarted when Nine Network’s The Today Show demanded an exclusive. Logan City Council had to red-facedly uninvited local TV and press. The Sunday Mail says Im’s record label Sony had to cool down Seven’s Sunrise, which had been supportive of Im in the past, by giving it an exclusive first TV performance on home soil.
Have a listen to @Damiandmusic’s new track! We love it already!! #9Today https://t.co/sJykal3LpM
— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) May 30, 2016
Look out for the launch of a crowd-funding campaign by TV’s James Mathison: he’s decided to take on former PM Tony Abbott’s seat of Warringah in Sydney in the elections. “He’s against marriage equality, he thinks climate change is a hoax, doesn’t sneeze at the idea that we’ve locked children up in deplorable conditions overseas and he’s lied over and over again,” Mathieson told MTV.
Och mon! For its 40th celebrations, NSW Southern Highlands’ community charity Brigadoon Highland Gathering has asked a Scots-born local – a laddie by the name of Jimmy Barnes – to be Chieftain of the Day. He won’t be singing, just busy opening and closing the event, awarding prizes, being part of the street parade and visiting the various clans tents.
Evelyn Morris/Pikelet may not have recovered the gear stolen from her car in Melbourne a few weeks back. But a Gofundme campaign has ensured she replaced most of it in time for her upcoming European trip.
Sydney singer songwriter Holly Throsby publishes her first novel Goodwood on September 28 through Allen & Unwin. It’s “a compelling ride into a small community torn apart by dark rumour and mystery”, and is set in the early 1990s. She’s previously written and illustrated two comic books.
The 10th anniversary of the death of Melbourne guitarist Robbie “Rocket” Watts (Cosmic Psychos, I Spit On Your Gravy) is commemorated at the Corner Hotel on July 1. Among those on the bill are the reunion of Gravy after 15 years and Destrends which includes Watts’ eldest son Billy Watts on guitar.
Gympie, Queensland based country music singer songwriter Caitlyn Shadbolt is off to Nashville to perform at the CMA Music Festival as part of her win of the Commercial Radio Australia New Artist to Nashville Scholarship. Her stay in the US will be an extended one, as she’s writing her debut album, which has a 2017 release date. She’s attending a songwriter camp there, and hoping that some of the results from the recent Bali camp might make it on the album.
102.9 Hot Tomato’s Carla Tooma continues her acting career in the Arts Centre Gold Coast’s production of Mary Poppins. She plays the mum who hires Poppins.
Two year old website and pop up shop Vinyl launched a record store at 276 Nicholson Street in Fitzroy, Melbourne, with a grand bash with free beer and a DJ last Saturday.
Another Aussie act lands a UK Top 30. Melbourne’s Cookin’ On 3 Burners took a leap to #29 from #91 with the Kungs remix of This Girl. It’s also #2 in Germany.
Dunedin rapper Arcee (aka Rona Wignall) caught the eyes and ears of German promoters Off The Radar when she played a NZ festival. They’re now flying her in July to play at the Fusion Festival in Hamburg before 75,000 and then do 10 days of club dates through Europe with US rappers Bluebird & Ceschi.
After nine dormant months, Perth Theatre Company is winding up after 30 years.
Sydney radio station Fine Music 102.5 is setting up The Fine Music Learning Centre at its St Leonards office for school students, and currently on a donations-raising campaign to raise $100,000 worth of funds. More info at finemusicfm.com.
Aside from searching for a new CEO, the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) is advertising for a Melbourne-based part-time Membership and Charts Coordinator. Apply by June 7 to Maria Amato, [email protected].
Hobart’s Kickstart Arts Centre had to pull down a name sign from its heritage building. Council threatened legal action as it had not applied to erect it.