‘A kick in the bollocks for Australian music’: how band rooms and live venues became a dying breed

Changing tastes and rising rents are to blame, says owner of the latest Sydney rehearsal studio to shutter Alan Scott says in the 1990s he would lose his rock musician customers to drug overdoses “and other nefarious, self-inflicted wounds”. In 2026, he says, they are more likely to die of cancer and heart attacks – a combination of poor diet, no exercise and old age. Continue reading...

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