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I like music co-founder @sydneymusicdotnet putting on gigs and DJing @cupholderindustries
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here are a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is HED Ardennes — Local Knowledge 10" @dougwright_
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is Betty Airs - Reverse Now 7"
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is @djplead — Quick EP
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is @chimers_band — Turn On The Lights / Closure 7"
I'm claiming them as honorary Sydney ok
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is The Middle East - Recordings of... 10"
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is Seven Inches Of ... ROMANCE 7"
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
@szunwaves — New Hymn To Freedom LP @laurenzpike
a few Sydney music selections for my set at @beatdisc tonight. 5pm til when we get asked to stop.
heaps more goodies in the tote bag, many acquired at Beatdisc.
this is @pleasuresydney — St Albans
Come to the party, it will be fun!
Beatdisc Records, tonight
Free • SydneyMusic t-shirts, fans and stickers
5pm — whenever they kick us out
23 Oct 2026
My oldest child (now adult) Naz was born two days after the iPhone arrived in Australia. It's hard to think of a device that has had more cultural impact than what the iPhone did to our understanding of portable computing.
Similar too, the advent of social media — my kids have never lived in a world without YouTube (home of the dankest Peppa Pig flips and Minecraft-themed song parodies), Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
Less visible to my kids, but no less influential, we have also seen the emergence of cloud computing, a centralisation of computing resources that offered businesses a trade for the inconvenience of maintaining server racks and redundancy with interacting with hardware like it's software. I helped many Australian businesses move to the cloud, so I saw a lot of this first-hand and have had plenty of time to reflect on the pluses and minuses of this industry-wide trend.
In the last half a decade we've seen the world gripped by the anticipation of the next epoch in technology-led transformation: the Large Language Model paired up with probably the strangest and most extreme brute-force allocation of capital (read: debt) the world has ever seen, all bubbling up into the frothy topic of so-called AI.
Tonight, for the first time, I'm speaking on “AI” and artists. I've been immersed in thinking about threats and challenges in our creative landscape for the last half a decade, and in a lot of ways I'm really happy that Will, Caitlin and I started SydneyMusic.net before ChatGPT kicked this whole AI frenzy off in the public sphere. SydneyMusic was (and is) a reaction to all of the above - so we were already thinking about the organisation's first principles as a reaction to Big Tech, and not just as a reaction to “AI”. I think in a lot of ways this gave us better tools to scrutinise the technology's introduction and promises.
So tonight, hosted by @unswfounders and @instabown we will be talking about artists and how we can respond to what's going on Big Tech. I hope it will be a refreshing and useful conversation. It's free, but you'll need to RSVP. DM me if you're having trouble finding it.
18 Oct 2026
THIS WEEKEND // in the serenity of the lower Blue Mountains you will find @secret___breakfast and @flukazoid (aka @sydneymusicdotnet DJs) taking residence at @hazelbrookbowlingclub.
Tunes kick off at 3pm. All welcome (including kids, with responsible humans attached). Completely free. Classic bowlo vibes. Restorative Mountains air. And trademark no-genre-off-limits selections guaranteed to tickle your eardrums.
Club Hazo @ Hazelbrook Bowlo
ft SydneyMusic DJs and friends
17th of October • 3pm—late
Free entry • All welcome
Photo by @olivexrush
11 Oct 2026
happy birthday little bro @michaelhardy__
this post will probably self-destruct soon enough but it's too good to not have on the grid for a hot minute
22 Sep 2026
community through diy vs fancy flashing lights and led screens
who had the better pitch?
proud of the scene
24 Aug 2026
this friday and saturday i will be “in conversation” with you (potentially) alongside anyone else that attends these two events
this was not planned. I had agreed to do “something” at the final @lazythinking__ dully event, assuming it would be a dj set. then @dj_andrew_golfn_strumn_cooln asked if i would speak at his lowkey friday night event in the beautiful @sneakypossumbar upstairs space (cultivated by @theflash547 of @vandidaofficial)
i've never been asked to speak at a gig before and i'm quite honoured! having reflected on it i am keen to do something interactive via an open-ended conversation with the room. as such we will get an opportunity explore some themes related to current events — what direction it goes will really come down to the vibes on the night.
be great to see you there. buy your tickets in advance and buy the bands’ merch.
looking forward to it. dj andrew gig tickets can be bought on humanitix. lazy thinking i think you’ll just have to turn up really early
24 Aug 2026
Small spaces carry the scene, and artist-run spaces punch well above their weight on volume. Look at the number of live original music events that @moshpit.bar and @lazythinking__ hosted vs @marysunderground - the number of available gigs for emerging and/or community-focused artists is about to be significantly cut down and the flow-on effect is going to be alarming.
UPDATE: since posting this, @suitesevena have announced that they are also closing their doors
05 Aug 2026
Why is DIY so important in helping build a live music ecology?
In this clip from the NSW Parliamentary Social Issues Committee's inquiry into the "State of Live Music", SydneyMusic.net co-founders Joe Hardy and Caitlin Welsh discuss why DIY is so important and why it shouldn't be ignored in the context of thinking about live music's opportunities for success.
DIY is the most effective and efficient pathway for enabling experimentation and creativity in how culture is presented. In our experience, these events and spaces tend to be more community-focused and allow artists to be more intentional with how they present their work.
DIY is not a panacea for the economic challenges that live music faces, but it's clear that a significant percentage of audiences and artists alike prefer these types of events, and from the many events of this nature that we've been to in just the last few weeks it is clear that demand is incredibly strong. It allows the culture to breathe and express itself more authentically, and it offers a financial model with less stakeholders — incredibly important to help the dollar go further.
We believe that a more permissive and enabling environment will help to rejuvenate our culture from the grassroots up. As Caitlin says, it's already happening — but helping to share knowledge and best practices that will ensure these events can thrive safely and with confidence will go a long way to ensuring the events minimise risk and stay viable.
All you need is a system and a space.
27 Jul 2026
9 days with 4 16-year-olds staying for the holidays: what they pulled off the record shelf
Caitlin: 5
Joe: 1
rare grid post hello everyone, just experimenting and thinking about curation (and it's a cute selection of rekkids)
10 Jul 2026
Why IS Western Sydney a desert when it comes to live music? SydneyMusic.net co-founders Joe Hardy and Caitlin Welsh share their thoughts and experiences in response to a question from @anthony.dadam.mlc at the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the “State of Live Music”
Shouts to the folks doing their best to buck this trend - above-ground venues like @eltonchong.penrith, the unstoppable energy of @rosy.rev, any restaurant, coffee shop or retail store that's been happy to have some musos set up outside trade, and of course anyone that's put on a house gig.
Of course we don't want to leave the North and South out of this either, which equally have problems with distribution and plenty.
But at the end of the day: if music isn't welcome in every postcode, and this is clearly a multi-generational problem if we take the North Ryde anecdote into account, then we have a serious problem.
In the meantime we'll keep amplifying all efforts to give musos an opportunity to showcase their craft across all suburbs. Keep sending us your gigs and we'll keep telling people about them!
@sydneymusicdotnet is a not-for-profit gig guide. Find out more at sydneymusic.net.
07 Jul 2026
all you need is a system and a space
sydney park • 4 jul
ft. @heartholder, @_aakkaa, lenna
congrats and thank you to john and @ayaan._.asif for creating this
sound was out of control, atmosphere flawless, what a beautiful afternoon
04 Jul 2026
just quickly ... here is "skramz" getting introduced to hansard as we try to express how much better the vibes are at DIY shows
18 Jun 2026
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