This episode features Yamatji and Gumbaynggirr vocalist and songwriter, Emma Donovan. Growing up in a musical family, Emma first appeared on the stage with her renowned family band, the Donovan’s. She's since collaborated with artists such as Paul Kelly, the Black Arm Band, the Teskey Brothers, Paul Grabowsky, Spinifex Gum, the late Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter and The Putbacks.

Emma has recorded multiple award-winning soul influenced albums. Recently, she was the executive producer for the award winning documentary, Wash My Soul in the Rivers Flow and appeared on PlaySchool, but in 2024, she's set to release her debut solo album 'Til My Song is Done'.

https://www.emmadonovan.com/

https://www.alwayslive.com.au/program/soundbox

Clare Bowditch is an award winning vocalist, business woman, mentor, mother, actress, broadcaster, podcaster and author. Claire has won the coveted ARIA Award for Best Female for her music, the Rolling Stone Woman of the Year Award for her contribution to Australian culture, and has been nominated for a Logie Award for her role as Rosanna on popular television show Offspring. Her very first book, entitled “Your Own Kind Of Girl” won the 2020 Australian Book Industry Award for “New Writer of The Year”. As a songwriter and musician she has toured with artists such as Leonard Cohen, Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, Gotye and John Butler, to name just a few. In August 2020, she released an Audible Original audio book entitled “Tame Your Inner Critic” which has remained at the top of the Audible Charts since the day of release. Recorded live at The Soundbox, as part of Always Live Festival, Chelsea and Clare chat about songwriting, body image, burnout and much more.

Modern Day Addiction video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Wa2YW3-Iw

Your Own Kind of Girl book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Clare-Bowditch-Your-Own-Kind-of-Girl-9781761065002/

Tame Your Inner Critic Podcast:

https://www.audible.com.au/author/Clare-Bowditch/B081Z5KGYRAudiobook/

Zoe Hauptmann is one of Australia’s most in demand session musician’s who has recorded and performed with some of Australia’s most iconic artists including Paul Kelly, Neil Finn, Kate Ceberano and Peter Garrett.

Zoe is also the Artistic Director of SIMA, Sydneys’ Improvised Music Association that presents a year round program of events as well as the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival. In 2018 she won the Creative Leadership Award at the Australian Women in Music Awards.

In this conversation, recorded shortly after the festival, I asked Zoe to tell us what she makes a great bandleader, how to negotiate performance fees, how she chooses what projects to work on and much more.

https://sima.org.au/

Currently just 7% of live production technicians (such as sound and lighting engineers) are female. 7%. Now imagine how many female technicians were touring in the 1970s - almost none. Our guest today was just 16 when she took her first job as a roadie with AC/DC in 1974. I’m talking to the first female roadie, the incredible, Tana Douglas.

Since her first role in the live sector as a roadie, Tana has worked as a sound engineer, a lighting designer and logistics manager. she’s worked with acts such as Suzie Quatro, Status Quo, INXS and Elton John and has over 30 years of touring experience across three continents. Currently based in LA, Tana recently released her first book, the memoir titled Loud.

In this conversation I ask Tana about inclusion in production crews, how she feels audiences have changed over the last few decades, and about that time Iggy Pop threw her favourite leather jacket into the crowd. We also chat about mental health - please note there is a content warning in this episode, there are some references to suicide and drug use.

https://www.tanadouglas.com/home

If you need help please contact the wellbeing hotline :1800 959 500

Supportact.org.au

Special Reminder: Always Live will present the Control podcast live at the Sound Box Monday 27 November. Hosted by artist/producer Chelsea Wilson, the session will feature two incredible Australian artists in conversation, Emma Donovan and Clare Bowditch. Housed in the Arts Centre Melbourne forecourt, the Soundbox Control session will comprise two back to back Control episodes recorded in front of a live audience. Soundbox Sessions are free, no booking required.

In this episode we speak to Jasmine Moseley, Executive Director of the Australian Art Orchestra. A classically trained instrumentalist, Jasmine moved into arts management post music study, and has since worked for organizations such as Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Public Theatre in NYC,  the Australian Ballet and Monash University Performing Arts Centre. In this conversation I ask Jasmine about the duel management structure of the Art Orchestra and where she thinks art music sits in Australia. We also cover a lot of arts management practice - I ask how Jasmine approaches providing feedback and securing partnerships and how she approaches developing commissions.

https://www.aao.com.au

Cat Hope is an award winning composer, sound artist, writer, performer, songwriter, artistic director and noise artist. Her work explores low frequency sound, drone, noise, glissandi and the use of graphic scores and alternative music notation. She is the director of Decibel New Music Ensemble, founder of the Low Tone Orchestra and the Australian Bass Orchestra and is a performer in noise duos such as Super Luminum and Candied Limbs. Currently based in Melbourne Cat is a Professor of Music at Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University. In this conversation I ask Cat about graphic scores, her use of drones in composition, the role universities play in establishing the canon of popular music and much more.

https://www.cathope.com/

Xylo Aria is an artist, producer and the CEO/Founder of Music Production for Women. Named in the Top 50 East London Innovators of 2020 and the Top 100 She Said So Alt Power List, Xylo is committed to improving the gender disparity in Music Production through positive action. In addition to her work with MPW, Xylo is also a Director and Treasurer for the Music Producers and Engineers’ Guild of Australia.

In this conversion we chat about the women in production and how Xylo approaches managing a business whilst maintaining her own creative practice.

MPW Website:

https://musicproductionforwomen.com/front-page

USC Annenberg Inclusion in The Recording Studio:

https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-inclusion-recording-studio2021.pdf

Neighbouring Rights expert Susan Cotchin, is the Managing Director of Good Neighbour.  Originally working for PAMRA in the UK, she set up International Royalties rescue in London, collecting unpaid royalties from around the world for artists such as Rhianna, Beyonce, Crowded House and many more. In this conversation, we hear about Susan’s journey from a child entertainer, to an educator, to the foremost Australian expert in Neighboring rights, to establishing a new venture with the late Michael Gudinski at Mushroom Group. 

Susan’s reputation in neighboring rights precedes her. With over twenty years in the field, Susan is indisputably recognised as one of the world’s most experienced people in the sector.

At the turn of the millennium, Susan was Royalty Accounts Manager at P@MRA/PPL in the United Kingdom, securing income for PJ Harvey, Muse & Belinda Carlisle before P@MRA was absorbed by PPL. Wanting to stay performer focused, Susan established her own neighbouring rights agency in 2003, International Royalties Rescue (IRR). IRR housed many acts including Jet, John Farnham & The Temper Trap, before adding another office in London in 2007 which went on to represent Beyoncé, Radiohead & Rihanna for global collection of their equitable remuneration. After running IRR for 16 years, Michael Gudinski sought to acquire Susan’s pioneering company to bring neighbourng rights into the Mushroom Group. Good Neighbour Rights was formed with Susan leading the joint venture company as Managing Director and co-owner. Good Neighbour now acts on behalf of the IRR clients in addition to many new signings including Crowded House, Zedd, Vance Joy, Gang of Youths and Amy Shark.

More info:

What are neighboring rights? APRA AMCOS

https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/what-are-neighbouring-rights#:~:text=Put%20simply%2C%20'neighbouring%20rights',a%20work%2C%E2%80%9D%20Susan%20says. 

Neighbouring Rights: It’s Time to Bridge the ‘Broken’ UK-Australia Performer Gap

https://themusicnetwork.com/neighbouring-rights-uk-australia/ 

COPYRIGHT & REGULATION Susan Cotchin (Good Neighbour Rights): ‘Australia’s decision to limit the application of Art. 15 of WIPO’s WPPT has impacted Australian artists in a big way

https://creativeindustriesnews.com/2022/08/susan-cotchin-australias-decision-to-limit-the-application-of-art-15-of-wppt-has-impacted-australian-artists-in-a-big-way/

How a Busted Reciprocal Agreement Has Ripped Off Australian Musicians

https://themusicnetwork.com/busted-reciprocal-agreement-ppl-ppca/

Genuine Article

https://www.facebook.com/GenuineArticle15.1

In this episode we are chatting with COO of ARIA and  PPCA, Board Director of both The Copyright Council and Support Act, Lynne Small.

With a strong background in finance, Lynne’s career started at Mushroom Festival Records. But for the past few decades she has worked across both ARIA - the Australian Recording Industry association and PPCA  the phonographic performance company of Australia. In this conversation I ask Lynne how Australian artists can achieve chart positions in the ARIA, how albums and singles get nominations for the ARIA Awards and how streams and downloads are counted towards the charts. We also talk about the Radio Fair Play campaign, the current record industry lobbying to change the government mandated caps on fees radio pays to recording copyright owners and the importance of being a PPCA member.

LINKS:
ARIA Awards Panel - The Music Network

https://themusicnetwork.com/2023-aria-awards-eligibility-criteria/

PPCA Fair Play

https://www.ppca.com.au/news/radio-fair-play

ARIA chart stores

https://www.aria.com.au/charts/stores

APRA and PPCA with Milly Petriella and Lynne Small

https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/apra-ppca-with-milly-petriella-and-lynne-small/id1606637744?i=1000566697179

Raising their voices report: https://musicindustryreview.com.au/

A national review of sexual harm, sexual harassment and systemic discrimination in the contemporary Australian music industry and recommendations for reform.

Support Act:

https://supportact.org.au/

Copyright Council:

https://www.copyright.org.au/