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Music Farmers is located at 5 Crown Lane in Wollongong, Australia. Crown Lane is the laneway that goes up the hill from the top of Crown Street Mall. We are in the big brown building on the southern side of the road. As well as being a retail shop we also have an attached venue and gallery space.

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Email mail@musicfarmers.com
Post PO Box 5141 Wollongong NSW 2500 
Shop 5 Crown Lane Wollongong NSW 250
Phone (02) 4228 0459
 
Facebook www.facebook.com/musicfarmers  
Twitter www.twitter.com/musicfarmers

Shop Hours

Monday: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday: 10am - 6pm
Wednesday: 10am - 7pm
Thursday: 10am - 7pm
Friday: 10am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

About

Music Farmers was founded in 2004 by Jeb Taylor and Simon Dalla Pozza. Originally operating as a small scale music distributor, a retail shop was opened in December of that year in Wollongong, Australia. Through the next couple of years additional activities such as running a label and booking shows took place under the Music Farmers name. In 2007 the shop moved to a larger building in Crown Lane where it operated for two years before closing at the end of 2008.

The Music Farmers brand took a two year hiatus as Simon moved to London and Jeb was touring the world managing bands via his other business Impedance Records.

At the end of 2010 after sensing a resurgence of vinyl records during his travels and a distinct lack of their availability in his home town, Jeb decided the time was right to bring back Music Farmers. Still running an office out of the Crown Lane building and with the help of Impedance Records business partner Nick Irwin, the Music Farmers shop re-opened in February 2011. Simon moved back to Australia mid way through 2011 to help add his touch to the re-launched entity.

Music Farmers Industries

As well as being a record shop, Music Farmers provides a range of services to the music and entertainment industries, these include:

Venue Bookings

Music Farmers are currently the exclusive booking agents for The Patch, an original live music venue in Wollongong hosting music 2 – 4 nights per week. Previously we have worked as booking agents for The Harp Hotel and Oxford Tavern as well as promoting one off shows at numerous venues and events, in the process working with many of Australia and the world’s finest artists including The Jezabels, Ash Grunwald, Boy & Bear, Die Die Die, The Break, Nick Oliveri, Cloud Control, Illy, Phrase, Children Collide, Dead Letter Circus, The Beautiful Girls, Tumbleweed, The Celibate Rifles, Okkervil River, Something With Numbers, Earthless, Kisschasy, The Snowdroppers, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Parkway Drive, Airbourne, Oh Mercy, The Hard Ons, Eddy Current Supression Ring, Shane Nicholson, The Matches, Gyroscope, The Panics, Bluejuice, The Vasco Era, Faker, Bob Log III and hundreds more.

Tour Planning

With over a decade of experience in tour planning and management across Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America, the team at Music Farmers can handle all aspects of tour planning and management for artists. These services include:

* Initial consultancy and liaison with agencies
* Budgets and contracts
* Visa applications, work permits and legalities
* Transport, travel and accommodation logistics
* Merchandise manufacture and fulfilment
* Production and backline organisation
* Promotion, marketing and advertising
* On road tour management and merchandise sales

The crew at Music Farmers have toured artists such as Mondo Generator, Hytest, The New Christs, Nick Oliveri and Buggirl across both Europe and North America. In Australia and New Zealand they have promoted tours for  international artists such as Dwarves(USA), Mondo Generator(USA), Peterpan Speedrock(Netherlands), Nick Oliveri(USA)and Winnebago Deal(UK) as well as successfully completing tour management jobs for numerous artists.

Artist Management & Label

The Music Farmers artist management and record label is a platform to release and manage Australian artists internationally while also licensing some of the best releases from around the world to release in Australia. The team at Music Farmers have experienced the highs and lows of running record labels for more than a decade and have taken this experience to create a label and management structure that helps develop artists in an ever changing industry.

Vinyl Label

Music Farmers Vinyl is a vinyl exclusive label that re-issues classic titles as well as new releases on music’s finest format. All reissues are officially licensed by the band and/or their label for release on vinyl, while new releases are licensed from the artist and/or label to compliment a current release on other formats. Music Farmers Vinyl releases can be purchased directly from us in store or on-line and are available to be ordered in at your local music shop.

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