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2021, the local music industry is counting on you Don t let us down

Homebake 2009. Credit: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images Let’s not beat around the bush: music’s done better than we’d have guessed it would this year, and the future is looking if not exactly bright, then it at least has a vague luminescence you can pick out if you really squint. And lest you accuse me of being a starry-eyed Pollyanna deliberately underplaying the devastation the year has wrought, let’s first acknowledge our losses: from John Prine to Fountains Of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, we lost many music legends prematurely to the virus. A lot of people in the music industry also saw their careers abruptly ended in 2020. This was particularly in the wake of the government’s baffling and entirely deliberate decision to exclude many in the arts industry (and the university sector, and people on visas…) from JobKeeper support because, as treasurer Josh Frydenberg explained, “a line has to be drawn somewhere”.

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