Canberra is the federal capital of Australia and is in the Australian Capital Territory. The city is home to a number of important musical venues and institutions, including the Llewellyn Hall performance venue, part of the Australian National University School of Music. The local music scene includes many bars and nightclubs for local performers, mostly clustered in Dickson, Kingston and the City Centre. Canberra is also home to a number of music festivals, most famously including Stonefest, the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival, the FAME Music Festival and the National Folk Festival.

Canberra's Local Music Scene

Canberra has a strong overage scene, but a relatively weak underage scene. Organizations like Standout Productions and Interact Records have previously made attempts to bring the underage scene back to life but have since disbanded, and All Ages ACT, previously a gig guide for the underage population, formed into PostOp Productions, who have helped create a resurgence in the underage scene. Despite this Canberra still has a centralised population of 300,000 with a diminishing underage market as the "over-age" population is the only age group from which bars and clubs can profit from.

A more recent addition to the promotion of the ACT music industry is "Music in the ACT" (www.mitact.com) which aims to link musicians, venues and businesses in the ACT region and host a forum so the site can be used as a networking tool for the industry.

Local Venues

Canberra has several venues where regular gigs are held (though many have now closed eg. Jamison Inn, The Greenroom)

• ANU Bar (Lic/AA & 18+)
• The Basement (18+ & U18)
• Civic Youth Centre (AA)
• The Folkus (Lic/AA)
• The Front Gallery & Cafe
• The George Harcourt Inn (18+)
• The Merry Muse (18+)
• The Old Canberra Inn (18+)
• The Phoenix (18+)
• The Pot Belly (18+)
• Transit Bar (18+)
• UC Bar (18+)
• Woden Youth Centre (AA)

Canberra Bands

Some of Canberra's local artists include:

• Aetoms
• Afraid You'll Fall (Formerly known as "Surrender") disbanded November 2008.
• Alchemist
• All guns Blazing
• Annie and the Armadillos
• Armoured Angel
• AstroChem
• Mr Fibby
• Band Over
• The Bedridden
• Big Dave
• Burning Years
• Casual Projects
• The Cherry Marines
• Cool Weapon
• Corgi Crisis
• Dahahoo
• Distance Fallen
• D'Opus & Roshambo
• Doug
• Dubba Rukki
• The Ellis Collective
• Ernie Van Veen and Band
• Escape Syndrome
• Fallsuit Theory (Formerly known as Mercury)
• Friend Or Enemy
• Forgery
• The Fuelers
• GasmA
• Grantwho?
• Gravelrash
• GSD
• Hancock Basement
• Haunted Attics
• The Heroines
• Hoodlum Shouts
• Howlin' Zak Daniels
• The Idea of North
• Identical Strangers
• Inflatable Ingrid
• Inside the Exterior
• Jonno Zilber
• Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens
• Koolism
• Los Capitanes
• The Love Skulls
• Manilla Green
• ManKilled
• McClane
• Meatbee
• The Missing Lincolns
• Moots
• Murder Meal Combo
• Omartyr
• Paqman
• Penguin
• Perpetual End
• Pleased To Jive You
• The Republic of Monster Elephante (formerly known as 'Fistful of Nothing')
• The Rest Is Noise
• Rubycon
• The Rhythm Method
• Scatterpuss
• The September Band
• Second Sun
• Sidewinder
• Sinderblock
• Sister Scarlett
• Slovac
• So Long Safety
• Spoil
• Stolen Exit
• Strong Like Sam
• Super Best Friends
• Switch 3
• Tactics
• Tell Me Bluntly
• Templestowe
• Thickshake
• Tonk
• The Tullys
• Turbulence
• Vasdefferen
• The Very
• Vinyl Roads
• WASLEE(We All Sound Like Everything Else)
• Zero Degrees And Falling
• Zwish

References

The NaddiksNewly formed in 2009 concentrating on Grunge Rock and Psychodelic music. Last played at the Pot Belly Bar in Belconnen Canberra. They're set was 30 minutes and consisted of 6 songs which included the main trademark song Amber Sun. Some of they're music can be accessed freely at the below url:www.myspace.com/thenaddiks

External links

• Australian National University School of Music
• Music in the ACT - Linking Music Industry Resources in the ACT