Coronavirus 2020
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New South Wales and Victoria will welcome eased restrictions around pubs and venues over the coming weeks, the respective state governments have announced. In New South Wales, the 50-person limit on pubs and venues in the state will be scrapped from Wednesday, 1st July. Instead of a specific number, the capacity of indoor venues will […]
A Justice League of Aussie live music & entertainment industry heavyweights have joined forces to form a new body dedicated to saving the nation’s COVID-ravaged music scene from certain doom, and fight for truth, justice & moshing to straight-fire bangers. Dubbed the Live Entertainment Industry Forum (or LEIF for short), the action group features members […]
After already postponing the 2020 event due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the organisers of Record Store Day 2020 have now realised the event won’t be able to go ahead in its usual format any time soon, thanks largely to the need for social distancing. Luckily, instead of canning this year’s festivities altogether, they’ve come up with a […]
A large array of music venues in Victoria have called for “urgent” state government assistance in order to save venues “on the brink of collapse in the wake of the COVID-19 shutdowns”, sharing a petition addressed to Victorian Parliament. Venues including 170 Russell, Cherry Bar, Corner Hotel, Prince Bandroom, Croxton Bandroom, The Espy, The Forum, […]
Pubs and clubs in New South Wales will be allowed to open their restaurants from this Friday (15th March), as the Berejiklian government begins to ease coronavirus restrictions. Similarly to cafes and restaurants, up to 10 patrons at a time will be allowed to dine in, with strict social distancing measures observed. Bar service and […]
As live music venues begin to reopen in America – despite having over 1 million more cases of coronavirus than any other country in the world – a new industry report has said that moshing and crowd surfing should be completely prohibited. As reported by Billboard, Event Safety Alliance executives Steven Adelman and Jacob Worek published […]
One state in the US has boldly given the green light for live concerts to take place amid the coronavirus pandemic, with country-rock outfit Bishop Gun to perform at Fort Smith venue Temple Live next week. Fort Smith is a city in Arkansas, and the socially-distanced gig will go down on May 15. There’ll be […]
Founder of touring giant Chugg Entertainment, Michael Chugg, has shared his thoughts regarding Splendour In The Grass planning to go ahead in October and said that it’s “very ambitious.” Speaking to Tom Tilley and Annika Smethurst on the most recent episode of news podcast The Briefing, Chugg thinks that planning the festival, which holds 50,000 people, for […]
New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics provide insight into just how devastating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been on the country’s arts industry. Jobs in the Arts and Recreation industry were down 27% between 14th March and 18th April, with wages in that period dropping 17.3%. As The Music acknowledges, […]
