Interview with APRA CEO Brett Cottle
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Brett Cottle was interviewed by Australian music website FasterLouder on the eve of his talk at FUSE Festival in Adelaide.
22 years is a long time. In terms of the Australian music industry, it encompasses the national expansion of triple j, the entire lifespan of Big Day Out, the birth and demise of Napster, the birth of iTunes and the iPod, the creation of online social media empires and streaming services, the introduction of Australian Idol and the career span of Powderfinger and Silverchair.
For 22 years Brett Cottle has remained a constant at the helm of APRA, the not-for-profit organisation, which with AMCOS since 1997 has been responsible for collecting and distributing royalty payments for over 67,000 Australian and New Zealand songwriters, publishers and composers. Considering the transitional state the Australian music industry finds itself in presently, Cottle is one of the few people whose commentary can hold true authority, shifting aside speculation to deliver a concrete assessment of where we are at and where we will be going in the next five years.
Selected to provide the keynote address to the FUSE Festival Conference in Adelaide on February 23, Cottle kindly gave FasterLouder a preview of his speech and free reign to pick his mind on everything that’s been troubling us about the industry in the last 12 months. Read more here.
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