Is Australias live music scene dying?
That’s the question posed by the Australia Council today, in a report detailing the decline in live music. Entitled “Vanishing Acts,” the study consulted three and a half thousand hoteliers around the country to find out what’s hampering live music. It found that a range of factors including noise complaints, the rising cost of insurance and licences and poor band management was killing the pub music scene, which once was the main training ground for Australia’s up and coming talent.
