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Brisbane’s The Zoo Is Closing

Lars Brandle — Wed, 01 May 2024 05:36:19 +0000

The 400-capacity Zoo will cease trading on July 8, and its sister venue Stranded will also call time next Monday, May 6.

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The Zoo Unveils 30th Anniversary Party Line-up

Lars Brandle — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 04:48:03 +0000

Brisbane's iconic music venue The Zoo is about to turn 30, and everyone's invited to the party -- details of which are announced today.

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Calibre Music Expands Programming To More Venues (EXCLUSIVE)

Staff Writer — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:44:12 +0000

Nathan Farrell's Calibre Music Management has expanded its programming services to three more music venues around the country, including The Zoo in Brisbane.

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Feed the Music World: Pixie Weyand launches touring musicians’ platform Feed Music

Lars Brandle — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:24:49 +0000

Musicians everywhere are starved of cash and hungry in general, especially now, thanks to a three-year pandemic that ripped up the playbook. Pixie Weyand’s Feed Music is here to help. Weyand is behind Feed Music, an online tool that connects artist to their favourite businesses to reduce pressure, whether it’s food, transport or other services, […]

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The Zoo’s Pixie Weyand talks evolution, pain of the pandemic: ‘We’ve been in the deep end for over a year’

Lars Brandle — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:47:36 +0000

The Zoo has always done things different. When the live music venue opened for business in 1992, in a space upstairs on Ann Street, in the heart of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, punters were provided with a light meal, rolled into the price of entry. The action on stage was always the main course, with the […]

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Australian Live Music Business Council launches COVIDSafe tool for the industry

Lars Brandle — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:00:07 +0000

Australia’s network of live music venues now has a trusted resource to help guide them through the pandemic and back to business. Today, the Australian Live Music Business Council launches the National Gig-Ready Dashboard, an updating hub of information which is meant to help the live sector through this fluid, and confusing health crisis. The […]

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QMusic CEO Angela Samut talks Bigsound 2020: “We feel it’s our responsibility to forge ahead”

Lars Brandle — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:57:26 +0000

Bigsound is back, coronavirus be damned. Organisers of the annual music conference and showcase spectacular last week confirmed the news few of us were expecting, that Bigsound would go ahead in 2020, obeying all the rules of the time we now live in. Originally set for September 1st through 4th, this year’s event will be condensed […]

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Papers please: Bands now have a rehearsal document to show police in lockdown

Lars Brandle — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:08:37 +0000

As venues in several states prepare to re-open their doors for post-COVID concerts (sorry, not you Victoria), bands need to stay lean, mean and keen for the road ahead. Practice makes perfect. Now, artists have the document to prove it. Adrian McGruther and Uda Widanapathirana of Sydney-based artist management company su:ku:ya have teamed up with […]

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ASM Global prepares to reopen Australasian venues

Lars Brandle — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:13:42 +0000

ASM Global, the venue and event management giant, is preparing to its re-open its hundreds of venues worldwide, including its family of Australasian sites. The announcement from the Los Angeles-based entertainment group is another sign the post-COVID era is approaching. Just how fast this new phase in live entertainment is approaching, however, remains unclear. According […]

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The Zoo announce ‘Anti-Social’ physical distancing concert series

Lars Brandle — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:09:25 +0000

Socially distant gigs are coming to Australia, sooner than you think. Brisbane’s iconic live music venue The Zoo rolls out its Anti-Social run of shows from July 11th, featuring kick-arse local and grassroots acts performing in a reduced-capacity room. Anti-Social is the brainchild of The Zoo owner Pixie Weyand, who is taking a safety-first attitude […]

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