Australia’s Live Music Crisis
The Australian live music scene has been in an interesting place recently – with Groovin the Moo and Splendour in the Grass, two major Aussie festivals, having been cancelled only days after being announced, leaving many fans disappointed and confused.
In a bid to help the live music scene, the government has launched a Federal Inquiry into Australia’s live music industry, in late March, following concerns that the Covid-19 pandemic drastically changed the landscape of the music industry.
We invited Dr Rod Davies, lecturer in Popular Music at Monash University onto the show this week, where he argued that unless action is taken to improve the conditions for emerging artists in local music scenes, we can’t build thriving and sustainable music communities within the Australian creative industries.
