Original live music venues in hyper-commercialised nightlife precincts: exploring how venue owners and managers navigate cultural, commercial and regulatory forces

Carah, Nicholas; Regan, Scott; Goold, Lachlan; Rangiah, Lillian; Ferris, Jason

doi:10.1080/10286632.2020.1830979

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“…Each scanner is networked through central servers and the details of any banned person are downloaded to all venues operating a scanner within around ten minutes of the ban being imposed. The QUANTEM project undertook an evaluation of the TAFV policy in 15 SNPs (Miller et al 2017(Miller et al , 2019, and findings have been reported within a range of papers (Carah et al 2021;Ferris et al 2021;Miller et al 2021b;Taylor et al 2019).…”

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Patron banning policy and practice in Queensland, Australia: key informant perspectives

Farmer

Robertson

Ferris

et al. 2022

Crime Prev Community Saf

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This paper explores attitudes to and experiences of patron banning policy (which prohibits an individual from entering a nightlife area or venue after engaging in anti-social behaviour) in Queensland, Australia. Key informant interviews were conducted with 66 participants from health, justice, industry, and government sectors across the state. Interviews were semi-structured, and transcripts were examined using thematic analysis. Overall, key informants reported that patron banning provisions helped to keep out customers who cause problems in venues and that ID scanners helped to enforce bans. There was some concern about displacement of banned patrons to other nightlife areas, the discretionary nature of venue bans, the potential for banning notices to be misused, and a general perception that police-imposed bans should be longer than the current 10 days. The majority of interviewees were supportive of patron banning and felt that it could (positively) affect patron behaviours. A number of recommendations were suggested to refine the framing and operation of Queensland’s banning policy.

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Patron banning policy and practice in Queensland, Australia: key informant perspectives

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Robertson

Ferris

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Crime Prev Community Saf

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“…Brennan and Webster, along with other scholars at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, have made several important contributions to the work on concert promoters, particularly in the UK, and also on the worldviews of these actors (Cloonan 2012). In recent years, several studies on concerts and concert promoters have been conducted globally (Carah et al 2020; Holt 2010, 2020; Kleppe et al 2019; van der Hoeven and Hitters 2019, 2020).…”

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How concert promoters think: five approaches to concert promotion in Norway

Berge

Kleppe

2022

Pop. Mus.

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Between artists and the audience, the concert promoter holds an important position within the music industry. This article, based on an empirical study of promoters in Norway, aims to analyse how concert promoters think, what their motivation and attitudes are like, their goals and their perceptions of a good concert and a good promoter. Drawing from both qualitative and quantitative data, we identify two dimensions in concert promotion: a paternalistic and a demand-driven approach. We also identify five typologies of concert promoters: the idealist, the curator, the rationalist, the entrepreneur and the instrumentalist.

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“…Fourth, APRA data capture the number of performances, but not qualitative changes in venue business models and performances. For instance, related research [10] shows that many licensed venues chose to schedule original live music early and change into a nightclub later in the evening to draw more patrons to a venue for longer, increasing the venues' reliance on high alcohol consumption to generate profit, and pushing live performances into the earlier part of the evening where they may perform to less patrons. Fifth, the precinct mapping audits relied on research assistants to collect data in a large and busy nightlife precinct within a limited timeframe.…”

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“…Owners of live music venues, together with musicians, music fans and peak music industry bodies, were especially concerned about the impact of the legislation [6][7][8][9]. The inner-city Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley is unique in Australia for its concentration of original live music venues in one neighbourhood and place-based policy approach to fostering and protecting live music in the area [10]. The area has a decades-long history as the hub of live music culture and performance in the state, and the live music venues were foundational to the development of the night-time culture and economy of the area [10,11].…”

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“…The inner-city Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley is unique in Australia for its concentration of original live music venues in one neighbourhood and place-based policy approach to fostering and protecting live music in the area [10]. The area has a decades-long history as the hub of live music culture and performance in the state, and the live music venues were foundational to the development of the night-time culture and economy of the area [10,11]. State and local government planning aimed at protecting the sustainability of live music venues has been a feature of the precinct for more than 15 years [12].…”

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The impact of the Queensland Government's Tackling Alcohol‐Fuelled Violence Policy on live music performances in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia

Puljević

Carah

Miller

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Drug and Alcohol Review

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Introduction. The Queensland Government's Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence (TAFV) Policy was met with concern from live music venue owners who feared decreased patronage and associated revenue. This study investigates the impact of the TAFV Policy on live music venues and performances in Fortitude Valley, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane, Australia recognised as a hub of live music performances. Methods. Data relating to live music venues and performances in Fortitude Valley for the 2000-2018 financial years were obtained from the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA AMCOS), who maintains an online data portal allowing artists to enter performance details to collect royalty payments. These data were supplemented with six precinct mapping audits of live music venues operating in the Fortitude Valley Safe Night Precinct between July 2016 and September 2019. Results. APRA AMCOS data show increases in the number of reported live music performances and venues in Fortitude Valley between 2000 and 2019. Precinct mapping audits show minimal changes in the operation of live music venues in Fortitude Valley between 2016 and 2019. Discussion and Conclusions.As the first study to independently document the impact of licenced venue trading hour changes on live music, this study shows the number of live performances reported to APRA AMCOS and original live music venues trading in the Fortitude Valley Safe Night Precinct were unchanged by the introduction of the TAFV. The study highlights the value of using performance returns and venue audits to track live music in a contested policy space.

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Original live music venues in hyper-commercialised nightlife precincts: exploring how venue owners and managers navigate cultural, commercial and regulatory forces

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Patron banning policy and practice in Queensland, Australia: key informant perspectives

Patron banning policy and practice in Queensland, Australia: key informant perspectives

How concert promoters think: five approaches to concert promotion in Norway

The impact of the Queensland Government's Tackling Alcohol‐Fuelled Violence Policy on live music performances in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia

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