Joe Hardy
@joe.hardy.id.au
đ¤ 686
đĽ 242
đ 866
I like music. co-founder
@sydneymusic.net
. joe.hardy.id.au cupholder.industries sydneymusic.net
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Read our submission to the NSW Government's Social Issues Committee on âThe State Of Live Musicâ
sydneymusic.net/reads/sydney...
loading . . .
SydneyMusic Turns 4: Read our submission to the NSW Govt Social Issues Committee | SydneyMusic.net - Sydney's live music community guide
We just closed our annual reader survey, which received 363 responses over 9 days. Weâll be taking a deeper look, but hereâs what we sent to the NSW Government.
https://sydneymusic.net/reads/sydneymusic-turns-4-nsw-government-social-issues-committee-submission
6 days ago
0
1
2
Read our submission to the NSW Government's Social Issues Committee on âThe State Of Live Musicâ
sydneymusic.net/reads/sydney...
loading . . .
SydneyMusic Turns 4: Read our submission to the NSW Govt Social Issues Committee | SydneyMusic.net - Sydney's live music community guide
We just closed our annual reader survey, which received 363 responses over 9 days. Weâll be taking a deeper look, but hereâs what we sent to the NSW Government.
https://sydneymusic.net/reads/sydneymusic-turns-4-nsw-government-social-issues-committee-submission
6 days ago
0
1
2
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Todd in the Shadows
9 days ago
Interesting. Is the crowd turning against Harry Styles? That new song definitely isn't doing well
add a skeleton here at some point
24
178
10
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Love music and in Sydney?
@sydneymusic.net
is doing a survey to collect feedback on our gig guide, and what our city needs. We'd hugely appreciate your input. Takes 5 minutes:
sydneymusic.net/survey
loading . . .
SydneyMusic Survey 2026
Help us to make Sydneyâs most comprehensive gig guide even better by providing your feedback!
https://sydneymusic.net/survey
18 days ago
0
1
3
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Greg Jericho
17 days ago
Always good when proof of stupid laws rushed through parliament occurs quickly
add a skeleton here at some point
23
217
83
Love music and in Sydney?
@sydneymusic.net
is doing a survey to collect feedback on our gig guide, and what our city needs. We'd hugely appreciate your input. Takes 5 minutes:
sydneymusic.net/survey
loading . . .
SydneyMusic Survey 2026
Help us to make Sydneyâs most comprehensive gig guide even better by providing your feedback!
https://sydneymusic.net/survey
18 days ago
0
1
3
Pretty good, honestly. Thoughtful presentation, and you might as well go all in on slop if you're going to properly examine it.
add a skeleton here at some point
20 days ago
0
1
0
I got Claude Code to write me a GUI âHello Worldâ app in assembly code and... well, I'll be damned
loading . . .
24 days ago
1
2
0
Talking about this (and some great gigs) on ABC Radio Sydney at 9:35
add a skeleton here at some point
29 days ago
1
3
1
I find this extraordinarily depressing from the NSW government's report on the Night-Time Economy (NTE) Source:
www.nsw.gov.au/business-and...
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
Here's where live music happened in Sydney in 2025 (source:
SydneyMusic.net
gig guide)
about 1 month ago
0
5
3
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Ted Underwood
about 1 month ago
Thesis: Bluesky stateful agents are better than moltbook because they don't pretend to be giving you unfiltered secrets of the dark bot heart. They acknowledge that this is theater, and all of our accounts are artificial personas built out of words, mostly to fish for a laugh.
add a skeleton here at some point
7
116
13
lol this is absolutely the wrong take, jesus christ
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
1
2
1
The Australian acts featured in the Hottest 100 have been active for a surprisingly high average # of years. I chatted about it a bit on ABC Radio Sydney last Saturday. In the 2010s the average number of years that the Aussie acts in the H100 had been active was 4-6 years. It's now 9-10 years.
loading . . .
about 1 month ago
0
2
0
Bums me out that we also don't get access to the benefits of solar power. While homeowners are bragging about their cheap power bills, landlords have no incentive to install panels on houses they don't live in.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
0
3
2
I don't have time to get into this in detail, but here's my take on the Hottest 100 this year
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
âThere are 250 local bands playing in Newtown tomorrow and none of them will appear in the Hottest 100 â maybe one" â me on ABC Radio this morning Any guesses on who the one act might be?
about 1 month ago
1
2
0
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Derek Powazek
about 2 months ago
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
loading . . .
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/
190
7927
2376
Good, thoughtful piece on something that's getting a shitload of buzz at the moment. Super intrigued by the addiction to progress â people are doing stuff, but I'm not yet seeing much concrete evidence that it's effective.
lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
loading . . .
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
Whatâs going on with the AI builder community right now?
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/
about 2 months ago
1
1
0
My fucking god I love Sydney band half request so much. RIYL: Slint, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, Sebadoh, Slowdive, y'know â shoegaze-y slowcore-y stuff. Get amongst. Incredible live.
halfrequest.bandcamp.com/album/sunmark
loading . . .
sunmark, by half request
4 track album
https://halfrequest.bandcamp.com/album/sunmark
about 2 months ago
1
2
0
They really showed their hand when they introduced "re-roll" into the vocabulary last year e.g. "oh if the code that's generated doesn't work, you might need to re-roll a few more times with the same prompt" literally heard that on a YC podcast
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
0
0
0
Just got word of another community-run DIY space being shut down by council. Super frustrating. Australian music is already on the ropes and our best acts wouldn't exist without the support of a thriving DIY culture. We need to stop the demonisation of democratising how artists platform their work.
about 2 months ago
0
5
0
I can't shake the feeling that ATProto is the ideal mechanism to solve the problem of event listings (i.e. replace FB Events) ⢠Venues or artists publish events ⢠Events are aggregated by curators or a feed reader ⢠Some kind of intelligence to deduplicate/consolidate repeated items Feels right?
about 2 months ago
2
4
0
This release of iOS is, no word of a lie, the first time I've seriously thought it might be time to drop Apple - entirely due to Liquid Glass. It's an abomination.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
1
1
0
Been using Google Workspace for Nonprofits (free) for over three years, and I've never been upsold for additional services once. In the last 3 months I've been upsold a paid AI subscription at least 4 times, each time using language like this. Hate that many orgs will take this up. Exploitative.
2 months ago
0
1
0
Yo is all retail completely recessioncore this year? Dropped into Myer CBD and you'd barely know it was Xmas! Is this economic or social malaise? Zero festivity.
2 months ago
2
3
0
A long but hopefully interesting letter on how
@sydneymusic.net
is doing as we close out 2025 (Spoiler alert â we're funded until EOFY)
loading . . .
Some reflections at the end of 2025 | SydneyMusic.net - Sydney's live music community guide
In 2025 we listed 6,535 live music events in the gig guide. SydneyMusic.net co-founder and director Joe Hardy shares a news update on how we're doing, along with some thoughts on what we want to do ne...
https://sydneymusic.net/reads/end-of-2025-letter
3 months ago
0
5
1
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Fergus Halliday
3 months ago
Wow it's almost like making a website designed to serve the needs and interests of your audience by being actually useful produces good outcomes!!
0
3
2
lol you know what doesn't have the juice? (Bluesky, it's Bluesky)
3 months ago
0
1
0
Boring old Web 1.0 websites have still got the juice!!
@sydneymusic.net
just keeps on growing
3 months ago
1
4
1
Just because you're doing the thing, doesn't mean the thing is being done
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
0
0
As with every week, I'll be on ABC Radio Sydney at 0935 AEDT to talk local gigs. It's a record breaking week for us in terms of show volume, so there's a lot to get through! Listen here:
www.abc.net.au/listen/live/...
loading . . .
ABC Sydney Live Audio - ABC listen
Listen live, whenever you want, wherever you are with ABC Sydney.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/live/sydney
3 months ago
0
3
1
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Dare Obasanjo
3 months ago
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
59
2962
679
Sold out in 24 hours! Blown away by the response. Very excited.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
2
0
RSVPs are 50% gone already
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
5
1
reposted by
Joe Hardy
nilay patel
3 months ago
Record labels somewhat famously have never been in the morality business and somewhat more famously have always been in the âsqueezing artists for profit until they burn out and dieâ business
add a skeleton here at some point
2
178
27
SYDNEY. Very excited to announce our second discussion on the viability of grassroots music culture, hosted in collaboration with Offbeat Collective. No talks, no panels: just a full room discussion with whoever shows up. Spaces *very* limited. RSVP essential.
events.humanitix.com/building-a-v...
3 months ago
0
3
3
Phenomenal piece
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
0
2
0
Speaking with Chris Taylor about QĂNTĂS DU SOL đ on ABC Sydney this morning
loading . . .
4 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
4 months ago
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
193
6783
1255
I swear to god, the amount of wasted productivity waiting for AI prompts to come back, there is absolutely no way this is helping us.
4 months ago
0
0
0
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Possum
4 months ago
I've had a weird life. Over 30 years I've worked with, but never for, governments both in Australia and abroad, at both national and semi-sovereign levels of jurisdiction. The one thing I've learned from experience is that THE only good governments are ones that are willing to upset vested interests
5
197
48
As of 8:20am this morning, neither The Music or The Music Network had published anything about the ARIAs or the results, supposedly the biggest night in Australian music. Am I allowed to say we don't have a functioning music media yet or is it still too soon?
4 months ago
1
2
2
This is tomorrow!
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Dare Obasanjo
4 months ago
Michael Burry, known for his $1B bets against Palantir & Nvidia, is reportedly closing his hedge fund. He claims market fundamentals are divorced from stock prices, blaming the AI bubble. I guess he's admitting the market can stay irrational longer than he can stay solvent.
loading . . .
âBig Shortâ investor Michael Burry shuts down hedge fund
The asset manager famous for betting against the US housing market says stock prices are unhinged from fundamentals.
https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/big-short-investor-michael-burry-shuts-down-hedge-fund-20251114-p5nfej
7
112
26
Melbourne! I'm in your city next Tues to co-host a community discussion with local DIY producer and organiser Kuya Neil. We'll be exploring what makes a healthy grassroots music ecosystem, why things have gone a bit off the rails, and how to rebuild. Presented by
@sydneymusic.net
+ Sound School
4 months ago
1
3
2
*blinking* ?????
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
0
1
0
Sydney's most comprehensive gig guide
@sydneymusic.net
needs your help to stay in the game! Our popular "Music In Every Corner" t-shirts and tote bags are getting another run and will be shipping soon. Pre-order yours today!
store.sydneymusic.net
4 months ago
0
0
1
Here's the rate of increase for AI/LLM referrals to
SydneyMusic.net
this year. Shit's crazy. It's a real worry for website publishers. We estimate these figures reflect around 1-3% of queried on chatbots for (in our case) "what gigs are on in Sydney?"
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
0
6
2
reposted by
Joe Hardy
Anil Dash
4 months ago
The independent web needs and deserves your support. And sites like Stereogum inspire everyone.
add a skeleton here at some point
1
93
18
Load more
feeds!
log in