Sustaining the Chaos
For artists creating music - performance and recording is fuel for the artistic engine, yet how do you maintain the energy show after show? How do you keep it fun when sometimes it doesn’t feel like it? What keeps you going in between shows?
Kellie Lloyd will honestly explore these questions at UnConvention Brisbane 2011 with Dan Kelly, Jeremey Neale, Dom Miller, Julia Bridger and Chris Hunter. Kellie explains that
as a musician and someone working in the music industry, I’m intrigued by people who populate it and how they do the things they do.
I am particularly interested by how people cope with post tour blues, how they maintain being artistic whilst work full time jobs. It’s really hard being in a band. It’s not particularly glamorous and you really don’t make that much money. However, what you find with artists and musicians is that they are driven.
It’s why I chose to curate “Sustaining the Chaos”.
The speakers on the panel all have one thing in common - a love of music - and we'll be discussing whether this is enough to sustain a career in the music industry.
How does Julia Bridger, a young emerging band manager working with a band on an upward climb, manage 10 people, a full time job and a life?
How hard was it for Dom Miller to put aside his own creative practice post-Rocketsmiths and help the careers of others as a manager for Ben Salter and Texas Tea?
What makes Dan Kelly and Jeremy Neal want to keep pursuing a career as performers in the face of overwhelming odds and tight finances?
Then there is Chris Hunter, dedicating so much of his life to supporting an underground scene with little to no fanfare, a lot of hours volunteering on community radio purely for the love of it. What inspires him when it’s other peoples creative output that he is dedicated to supporting?
I see this panel providing an honest and inspiring conversation with some very talented people about who they are and how they do what they do.
To take part in this conversation grab your tickets to UnConvention Brisbane 2011 now.
