Music industry planning flood benefit
The music community looks set to stage a huge benefit concert for the Queensland flood victims, TMN has learned from various sources.
While official details are yet to be released, it’s widely expected the shows will echo the huge Sound Relief shows of March 2009, which saw the industry and musicians unite to raise over $9 million for the victims of the Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods.
Those events saw the industry's top brass - Michael Gudinski, Michael Chugg, Amanda Pelman, IMC’s Joe Segreto and Tom Lang and ARIA Awards executive producer Mark Pope – set aside competion and band together to stage arena shows in Sydney and Melbourne, which featured Split Enz, Midnight Oil, Kylie Minogue, John Farnham, Jet, Wolfmother and Icehouse alongside visiting international acts like Coldplay, Kings of Leon and Taylor Swift.
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