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From The Inside with Peter Rix

Peter Rix has spent his entire adult life working in and around the music business in Australia. From managing artists like Marcia Hines, Jon English, Hush and Billy Field, to 14 years as the original Producer and Chairman of the ARIA Music Awards. 

Peter's book of contacts is extensive. From these contacts, he's picked the who's who of music legends to talk to for this series. They are the success stories, the survivors, the maniacs who helped steer the Australian music business from the 1970's onward.. and somehow, they're all still relevant and thriving today. You will hear their stories, their triumphs and their troubles: unvarnished and honest conversations with a bunch of unique, fascinating characters.

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A life of touring and music – Michael Chugg – pt 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The 1970s meant a new era of Australian music. The Sunbury Rock Festival in the early 1970s was Australia’s equivalent to Woodstock. Around the same time, the touring scene started to take off in ...

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A life of touring and music – Michael Chugg – pt 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The modern day era saw Michael Chugg’s music life take on different turns – touring new acts and new genres, breaking new artists in Australia and a return to managing artists. Chuggy had to get h...

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Renaissance man - pt 1: A conversation with Les Gock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This conversation is one very close to Peter Rix's heart. One of his early artist management jobs was with the glam rock band Hush. The mid-1970s saw the band take on constant performing, touring, ...

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Renaissance man - pt 2: A conversation with Les Gock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This conversation is one very close to Peter Rix's heart. One of his early artist management jobs was with the glam rock band Hush. The mid-1970s saw the band take on constant performing, touring, ...

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Renaissance man - pt 3: A conversation with Les Gock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Even while touring, performing and being on TV as a 'rock star' in the 1970s, Les was already thinking about the future and where he would go next in life. While working on his re-invention after ...

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Managing Australia's finest - pt 1: A conversation with John Watson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Watson is best known as the manager of an astonishing roster of recording artists from Silverchair to Missy Higgins, Birds of Tokyo, Paul Mac, The Presets, Gotye, Dustin Tebbutt and these days...

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Managing Australia's finest - pt 2: A conversation with John Watson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In Part 2, Peter and John look at the role of the manager in the life and career of a recording artist: when to stay close, when to keep your distance, how to deal with the big highs and the big lo...

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Managing Australia's finest - pt 3: A conversation with John Watson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nowadays John also co-manages Cold Chisel and manages Midnight Oil, in addition to his work with artists such as Gotye, The Presets, Birds of Tokyo and Dustin Tebbutt. In Part 3 of their conversati...

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Tales of angels, animals and gardens - pt 1: A conversation with John Woodruff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This story is one hell of a ride. John Woodruff has played many roles over the years. From agent to manager to venue proprietor to music publisher to record label owner to magazine publisher. After...

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Tales of angels, animals and gardens - pt 2: A conversation with John Woodruff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Woodruff's work in the 70s and 80s set him up for the moment where he saw a young Suze DeMarchi performing on UK television while visiting London. Tracking her down led to The Baby Animals, an...

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The evolution of music touring - pt 1: Michael Coppel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Long time tour promoter and now Chairman of Live Nation Australasia, Michael Coppel's career in music started fresh out of university. It meant running record stores and booking bands - long hard ...

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The evolution of music touring - pt 2: Michael Coppel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The landscape of touring is changing and evolving to a new scale. The tours are bigger - bigger money, larger venues, more countries with bigger entourages. Peter and Michael look at the differe...

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The song doctor - pt 1: A conversation with Charles Fisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There are few long-standing members of the music industry globally who have the unique ability to hear and smell a hit record. There are even less who can show a track record for finding those neg...

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The song doctor - pt 2: A conversation with Charles Fisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In Part 2 of Peter's conversation with Charles Fisher, they look at Charles's 10 years spent producing records in the US and how that differed from working in Australia. They also look at the arri...

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Bringing the rock and roll to radio - pt 1: A conversation with Rod Muir from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There is no rock and roll without the radio. As a manager of artists and bands in the 1970s, it was part of Peter Rix's job to help break his artists through to success. To break your band, you n...

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Bringing the rock and roll to radio - pt 2: A conversation with Rod Muir from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The 80s brought in a new time for radio - a new way of listening via crystal clear FM and new ways of doing things. Peter and Rod talk about those early days when FM turned on for the first time: ...

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Building the biggest band in the world - pt 1: A conversation with Chris Murphy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There are many criteria you can place on success in the music business: taking your band to number 1 on the American Billboard Chart, selling nearly 50 million albums, selling-out Wembley Stadium a...

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Building the biggest band in the world - pt 2: A conversation with Chris Murphy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The next phase of Chris Murphy's career sees Chris start building INXS from a local young band to an international band taking to the global stage. Underpinning his work and belief in the band and...

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Building the biggest band in the world - pt 3: A conversation with Chris Murphy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The rise and rise of INXS did not mean resting on one's laurels. It meant recording, and touring and touring and even more touring, despite everyone else thinking it was time to rest and enjoy the...

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A life in music, events and venues - pt 2: A conversation with Harvey Lister from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvey Lister is the Chairman and CEO of AEG Ogden - manager of the largest network of venues in Asia Pacific. Peter Rix and Harvey met in the 70s, via radio promotions and touring bands in Queensl...

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The ARIA awards from then to now - pt 2: A conversation with Phillip Mortlock and Mark Pope from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In Part 2 of this conversation, Peter, Phillip and Mark speak about the growth of the ARIA Awards from an event that was a sit down dinner with no live music or television broadcast, to a big broad...

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The ARIA Awards from then to now - pt 2: A conversation with Phillip Mortlock and Mark Pope from 2017-11-23T16:05

In Part 2 of this conversation, Peter, Phillip and Mark speak about the growth of the ARIA Awards from an event that was a sit down dinner with no live music or television broadcast, to a big broad...

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From The Inside with Peter Rix
The ARIA Awards from then to now - pt 2: A conversation with Phillip Mortlock and Mark Pope from 2017-11-23T16:05

In Part 2 of this conversation, Peter, Phillip and Mark speak about the growth of the ARIA Awards from an event that was a sit down dinner with no live music or television broadcast, to a big br...

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