“…Small live music venues have previously been described as small-to-medium enterprises (O'Connor, 2004;O'Connor and Gu, 2010), contributors to the creative or 'night-time' economy (Florida, 2002(Florida, , 2006(Florida, , 2010Lovatt and O'Connor, 1995), heritage sites Rogers, 2016a, 2016b), small businesses (Holt, 2010), stops on the 'toilet circuit' (Behr et al, 2016a;Miller and Schofield, 2016), or the foundation of a broader 'live music ecology' (Behr et al, 2016b;Parkinson et al, 2015;van der Hoeven and Hitters, 2019;Webster et al, 2018). Australian research on live music venues has been framed primarily in an economic context (Deloitte Access Economics, 2011;Ernst & Young, 2011), or as a reaction to cultural policy (Flew, 2008;Homan, 2008Homan, , 2011Johnson and Homan, 2003), licensing regulations (Burke and Schmidt, 2013) or gentrification (Shaw, 2009(Shaw, , 2013.…”