Chris Carey

The Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO) has unveiled new speakers and sessions for its 2026 Music Data and Insights Summit. Returning to Melbourne on May 18th-19th, the two-day event will once…

In love, it is said, absence makes the heart grow fonder. In real life, the absence of music makes the head hurt. A U.K. study found that the pandemic has created a pent-up demand for live music, an…

Kamran Ahmed is a psychiatrist, film-maker, and founder of electronic music platform Rave Reviewz, a Sydney-based publication which aims to bolster the local underground electronic music scene. He…

Music business conference FastForward Sydney is officially on hiatus.

Tickets for the 2020 edition of FastForward Sydney will go on sale early February.

Open your calendars, pens at the ready. FastForward is returning to Sydney for its third edition. The boutique music conference is locked in for April 30-May 1, taking place for the first time at the…

Chris Carey has a new gig. The FastForward Music Conference spearhead is named Head of International Marketing at TicketSwap, an online marketplace founded in 2012 with the mission to make secondary…

FastForward conference founder Chris Carey has landed a new role with TicketSwap.

FastForward is going places. The international music biz summit started life in Amsterdam five years ago, the brainchild of Chris Carey, the British-born and bred music sector analyst and former…

Music is the number one passion for one in three Australians, Aussies are listening to music three-to-four hours a day on average, a bunch of us won't go to gigs alone, and album listening isn’t…