Australia's best music venues
A series celebrating the history, staff and legendary gigs that shaped the most loved music venues around the country
‘One of the greatest nights of rock’n’roll’: readers on their favourite Australian music venues
We asked you to nominate the country’s best venue for live gigs. From Sydney’s Enmore to the Cranker in Adelaide, here are some of your choices
‘There’s history in these walls’: is Mojos in Fremantle Australia’s best music venue?
Having set the stage for some of the world’s most iconic bands over its wild, debauched lifetime, Mojos is still drawing crowds more than 50 years later
‘Hundreds will come out on a weeknight in Canberra’: is the Baso Australia’s best music venue?
A rare constant in the national capital’s changing live music scene, the Baso fosters an intimacy that can bring music lovers of all stripes together
‘The seats are wonky, it’s falling apart – but people love it’: is Hobart’s Odeon Australia’s best music venue?
Hobart’s beloved venue has lived many lives – state-of-the-art picture theatre, ABC building, church – and survived many near-deaths, including a recent brush with demolition
‘A lavish, jewel-studded palace’: is Melbourne’s Forum the best music venue in Australia?
Elaborately decorated with Greco-Roman columns and gargoyles, this beloved ex-theatre has also been a cinema and a Pentecostal church – and is now the city’s most ‘majestic’ live music venue
‘If you came to The Zoo, you respected the rules’: is this Brisbane music venue the best in Australia?
With its unofficial ‘no dickheads’ policy, the 500-capacity room has been a safe space in the heart of Fortitude Valley
‘We’ve had one fight in 15 years’: is the Grace Emily hotel Australia’s best music venue?
One of Adelaide’s oldest pubs is now a beloved live music institution. Musicians John Darnielle and Tim Rogers share why they love it – and how a mixtape from a stranger saved the You Am I frontman’s life
‘Both massive and intimate’: is the Enmore Australia’s best music venue?
Sydney’s 117-year old theatre has welcomed the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Harry Styles and a literally groundbreaking Genesis Owusu gig – but it all took ‘blood, sweat and tears’
