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We’re so excited to welcome Bron Adams to the LMO team! Bron will be taking over from Lucy Joseph as Live and Local Prog...
11/04/2025

We’re so excited to welcome Bron Adams to the LMO team! Bron will be taking over from Lucy Joseph as Live and Local Program Manager as Lucy goes on maternity leave!

Bron brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in urban planning, live music, academia and government advocacy, and will be working with local councils across QLD, NSW, VIC and SA to build their capacities to support live music in their local communities. We’re so thrilled to have Bron on board to continue the national rollout of Live and Local!

As we wrap up 2024, the Live Music Office (LMO) is taking a moment to reflect on what has been an incredible year of gro...
20/12/2024

As we wrap up 2024, the Live Music Office (LMO) is taking a moment to reflect on what has been an incredible year of growth, engagement, and development for our small but mighty team. We’ve had the privilege of working alongside some of our most important partners and stakeholders, and we want to share a few highlights with you – because we couldn’t have done it without you! 
 
At the heart of our work is a commitment to seeing live music thrive across Australia. This means advocating for better government regulation and strategic policy development across Federal, State and Local sectors to support our music communities. But, as we know, meaningful change requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-industry approach. While we play a facilitation role, the real magic happens thanks to the day-to-day champions across the government and industry who are driving this change. 

Here’s just a small snapshot of what our 2024 entailed:

🔹 National delivery of Live and Local
🔹 Micro-Festivals
🔹 Professional Development Workshops:
🔹 Live Music Industry Forums
🔹 Strategic Policy Development
🔹 Industry Engagement
🔹 Policy Advisory
🔹 Team Growth

And there’s so much more to come in 2025! We’re excited to continue our engagement with local, state, and federal government representatives and to keep delivering best-practice live music policies nationwide. 
 
A massive thank you to our incredible partners – .aus, , Griffith University, our local council partners, state music organisations, and the dedicated policy consultants who’ve supported us every step of the way. 
 
Here’s to another year of making a real impact in live music! 🎶

The LMO is thrilled to celebrate the launch of the NSW Government’s 10 Year Contemporary Music Strategy at . Congratulat...
02/12/2024

The LMO is thrilled to celebrate the launch of the NSW Government’s 10 Year Contemporary Music Strategy at . Congratulations to and the team for their incredible work and dedication to developing this strategy. We’re honoured to have been a part of this journey with some of the best in the biz and we’re excited to see huge things in store for the NSW music sector!

🎹🎸High Fives for Celebrating Australian Music T-shirt Day! 🎤🇦🇺At the Live Music Office, we’re proud to rock our Aussie m...
28/11/2024

🎹🎸High Fives for Celebrating Australian Music T-shirt Day! 🎤🇦🇺

At the Live Music Office, we’re proud to rock our Aussie music tees today, each one telling a story of the diverse Australian live music industry. From the emerging artists like Arnhem Land’s Ripple Effect Band to the legendary John Farnham, every stage of the music journey is crucial.

Our goals are clear:
1️⃣ Increase live music performance opportunities
2️⃣ Support live music audience and sector development

And here’s how we’re working to make it happen:
✨ Fostering dialogue and collaboration between stakeholders
✨ Sharing info and promoting best practices
✨ Driving policy reform for a more sustainable live music sector
✨ Supporting strategy development to ensure continued growth

From emerging artists, to Aussie greats paving the way, a healthy live music scene relies on every career stage. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re an established icon, it’s all connected and all important.

Let’s continue supporting the entire pipeline of talent and ensuring that the live music industry remains a place where all artists, from emerging to legendary, can thrive.🎶

Wear your Aussie music tee and donate to at https://www.ausmusictshirtday.org.au/donate

27/11/2024

We’re celebrating AND the end of an enormous year of Live and Local by sharing some snapshots from the incredible micro-festival events that our partner councils have delivered across 2024. It’s been an amazing 12 months seeing so many talented grassroots musicians perform in their own communities across Australia, and we’re excited to see even more live and local music take place in 2025.








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What a wonderful weekend in Cairns with and for the Cairns Music Industry Gathering! It was great to facilitate discus...
27/11/2024

What a wonderful weekend in Cairns with and for the Cairns Music Industry Gathering! It was great to facilitate discussions around what a thriving live music scene looks like for the Cairns community, how council and community would realistically achieve that vision and what skills, training and education provided by QMusic would help them get there.

The LMO celebrates the successful campaign by British grassroots organisation has that has secured a landmark policy ch...
27/11/2024

The LMO celebrates the successful campaign by British grassroots organisation has that has secured a landmark policy change in the UK which will see a portion of every ticket sold at arenas and stadiums directed towards supporting grassroots music venues, artists, and promoters.

This initiative is ultimately a recognition that the success of that live music industry is founded upon a functioning grassroots ecology.

The LMO joins other industry organisations in endorsing a similar approach in Australia, along with a broad-based tax rebate for live music. There is, after all, no industry without the grassroots.

An incredible weekend spent with a wonderful group of local champions of the Cairns live music industry. A huge thanks t...
15/11/2024

An incredible weekend spent with a wonderful group of local champions of the Cairns live music industry. A huge thanks to the teams at Cairns Regional Council and QMusic for their efforts in organising a wonderful program that saw such a rich discussion around a successful live music scene for Cairns.

Two cracking professional development events for the Live and Local program on Tuesday 5 November, thanks to our pals a...
04/11/2024

Two cracking professional development events for the Live and Local program on Tuesday 5 November, thanks to our pals at and .coast.music.arts! A great opportunity for the central coast local music community, so don’t miss out!

We’re thrilled to be part of the More Than A One Night Stand program, working with to deliver Live and Local over the n...
11/09/2024

We’re thrilled to be part of the More Than A One Night Stand program, working with to deliver Live and Local over the next 12 months following on from the One Night Stand.

This Thursday we’re hosting a local music industry forum to assist council in shaping a live music strategy in close consultation with the local Warrnambool community.

🎉 Big news alert! 🎉 The Live Music Office is thrilled to welcome Fiona Duncan to the team as the Live and Local Program ...
26/07/2024

🎉 Big news alert! 🎉 The Live Music Office is thrilled to welcome Fiona Duncan to the team as the Live and Local Program Coordinator!

Fiona brings to the role over 30 years of music industry experience across artist management, event and tour management, publicity and industry advisory roles, as well as an extensive background in local government in Arts and Major Events at the City of Greater Geelong.

Fiona will be working with local councils across Australia to deliver the Live and Local program, a comprehensive capacity building program for local councils and their live music communities. Live and Local provides local government with a national best practice framework for supporting the growth of grassroots live music activity through better regulation and strategic policy development.

Fiona said: “I’m deeply committed to supporting the industry, where grassroots development is crucial for nurturing artists and cultivating audiences, essential elements in the music industry ecosystem. Now more than ever, we recognise the vital importance of strengthening this foundation. I’m thrilled to join the Live Music Office, seeing immense value in their impactful work and I look forward to collaborating nationally with local governments.”

Engagement and Programs Manager Lucy Joseph said “It’s absolutely fantastic to welcome Fiona to the Live Music Office and expand our small but mighty team! With the addition of Fiona’s wealth of knowledge in both the music industry and local government to the LMO, we will be able to further advocate nation-wide for more consistent approaches to strengthening local grassroots live music communities as the foundations of the Australian music industry. Fiona is an incredible asset to have as part of the team and we can’t wait to get started!”

We’re so excited to be part of the inaugural More Than A One Night Stand program being delivered in Warrnambool, with th...
26/07/2024

We’re so excited to be part of the inaugural More Than A One Night Stand program being delivered in Warrnambool, with thanks to .aus, and !

More Than A One Night Stand is an extensive series of programs and events to support the return of triple j's highly anticipated One Night Stand, to be held this September in Warrnambool, Victoria / Gunditjmara, Eastern Maar Nations.

Recognising the significance of the event’s revival, Music Australia has assembled music service organisations AAM, Australian Independent Record Labels Association, APRA AMCOS, Crew Care, Kennell & Co, Music Victoria, The Push, the Live Music Office, Sounds Australia, and VMDO to engage with the local community and deliver bespoke industry-training programs, panel sessions, songwriting workshops and an industry forum leading up to One Night Stand.

These sessions unite key music organisations to harness our shared support for regional communities and provide capacity building and skills development initiatives for emerging artists and budding industry professionals.

The LMO is partnering with Warrnambool City Council to deliver the Live and Local program, beginning with a local industry forum on Thursday 12 September to bring council and the Warrnambool community together to discuss what a thriving live music scene looks like for the local industry following on from One Night Stand.

Click here for more information on the Warrnambool Live and Local Forum:
https://www.musicvictoria.com.au/event/live-and-local-industry-forum-presented-by-the-live-music-office/

And check out further information on the rest of the More Than A One Night Stand program:
https://www.musicvictoria.com.au/morethan/

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