Jaddan Comerford

In episode 4 of Stories from the Scene, Music Victoria's General Manager Dale Packard speaks with Jaddan Comerford. Jaddan is the founding CEO of U nified Music Group, a globally renowned music company and one of the major players in the Victorian music industry. Starting in the suburbs of Melbourne, at the age of 18, Jaddan originally founded the punk/ska label Boomtown Records. He has grown the company over the last 20 years to where Unified is now one of Australia’s largest independent music companies. Unified do everything from: artist management, releasing records, running festivals, merchandise and publishing. In this episode Dale and Jaddan discuss: - discovering punk music - the early days of boomtown records - the financial risk of running festivals - expanding the business internationally - gender diversity - moving into the metaverse - the ethics of working in music - and much more Thank you, and enjoy listening. Thanks to Creative Victoria and the State Government of Victoria for their support Sponsored by Yamaha Music Australia Background Music by Dale Packard

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Jaddan Comerford is an episode from Stories from the Scene: the past, present and future of music in Victoria by Music Victoria.

This episode is 01:04:55 long.

This episode was published on Mar 23, 2022.

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