Music Venues About To Turn Up The Volume (Without Annoying Their Neighbours)

Following the Victorian state government's announcement earlier this year of the Good Music Neighbours initiative — a matched funding program for sound management in live music venues — 25 venues have today been confirmed as the inaugural grant recipients which will undertake building projects or seek advice to control sound in and outside of their respective premises. 

The program, a part of Labor's $22 million Music Works initiative in partnership with Creative Victoria, Music Victoria and the Live Music Office, enables the selected Victorian venues to engage in a number of projects such as installation of double-glazing, sound absorbing furnishings or air locked doors and technology upgrades to improve sound quality at a lower volume.

The Good Music Neighbours grants funding totals $279,897.

"Music Victoria is thrilled that so many venues have applied for the first round of Good Music Neighbours funding," Music Victoria CEO Patrick Donovan said.

"The program provides practical assistance to support venues and compliments the range of recent state reforms - such as the agent of change principle - which will help to ensure the future of Victoria’s thriving live music community."

Check out all the grant recipients below. 

• 24 Moons, Northcote — $8452
• Bakehouse Studios, Fitzroy — $25,000
• Brighton Savoy, Brighton — $11,279
• Bundalaguah & Myrtlebank Hall, Bundalaguah — $4404
• Corner Hotel, Richmond — $22,300
• East China Trading Company, Melbourne — $12,500
• God’s Kitchen Cranbourne, Cranbourne — $25,000
• Gods Kitchen Mornington, Mornington — $2500
• Loop 23 (Loop Bar) — Melbourne — $17,500
• Lucie Ribush for Combination Lock (Boney), Melbourne — $5000
• Lucie Ribush for Pirate Cove (Magic Mountain Saloon), Melbourne — $3000
• Lucie Ribush for Tanity (Revolver Upstairs), Prahran — $4400
• Magic Johnson (The Tramway Hotel), Fitzroy North — $2600
• Melbourne Pub Group (The Prince Bandroom), St Kilda — $6416
• Night Cat Holdings (The Night Cat), Fitzroy — $25,000
• Patricia Maxwell (Mantra Studio Kitchen), Yarraville — $2100
• Seventh Tipple (The Tote Hotel), Collingwood — $12,354
• Suttons House Of Music, Ballarat — $2800
• Tanya El-Gamal (Rubix), Brunswick — $25,000
• The Emerson, South Yarra — $25,000
• The Flying Saucer Club @ Caulfield RSL, Elsternwick — $2000
• The Loft, Warrnambool — $4780
• Vahlano Hotels (The Sandbar), Mildura — $25,000
• Velmo (Some Velvet Morning), Clifton Hill — $20,812
• Yah Yah's, Fitzroy — $7400