Every original live music venue in the country is about to land on one free national map.
The Australian Music Touring Network has opened venue registrations, inviting original live music rooms nationwide onto one free directory.
Developed by the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN), the Australian Music Touring Network gathers the country’s original live music venues into a single map-based directory, spanning metropolitan, regional and remote Australia.
Registrations mark stage one of the national rollout, with the full public platform arriving in October for artists, tour managers and the wider music community.
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Australian Music Touring Network
- What: a free national directory of original live music venues, developed by AMIN
- Venue registrations: open now
- Full public platform: launching in October
- Cost: free to register
- Who’s eligible: pubs, clubs, community halls, arts centres, cafés and dedicated live music rooms that regularly present original music
A searchable map of venues
Once it’s live, the Australian Music Touring Network will work as a searchable map, so artists, managers and booking agents can pinpoint the right room in an unfamiliar town and make direct enquiries. Venues that register can showcase their facilities, technical specifications, accessibility information and performance spaces, along with programming preferences and the local knowledge that helps touring acts plan a show that actually works.
Sign-ups are open to any space that regularly presents original contemporary live music, supports fair pay for artists, offers a safe and welcoming environment, keeps an online presence and lists a public booking contact. Dry-hire spaces such as community halls and multi-purpose rooms count too, so the directory should stretch well beyond the usual band venues into the smaller corners of the touring circuit.
AMIN represents Australia’s eight state and territory contemporary music peak bodies – MusicACT, MusicNT, MusicNSW, Music Victoria, MusicSA, Music Tasmania, QMusic and WAM – and has built the platform around the idea that music is local before it’s national.
Listed venues also become more visible to presenters, festivals, booking agents, local councils and government agencies, which is the sort of infrastructure the touring sector has been missing.
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