Although this site is created overseas it is an interesting one.

Eckersley's has monthly art classes and many more services to cater for the crafty persons needs. They also offer the latest promotional, product safety or company information online.

This site could be of great interest to the crafty ones among us.

This organisation's website shows all of the craft shows and expos that they are running right accross Australia. These events are useful for people to see what new wares suppliers are offering. They are also good for picking up info on any classes etc that are being offered.

This is an interesting and imaginative approach to and use of craft.

Craft Victoria is offering opportunities for emerging artists called Hatched and some mini festivals like White Box

This is a good site for emerging entrepreneurs and bands to check out venues for special events.

This site is a database of Indigenous Australian musicians. It is something like a myspace for indigenous Australians

This site is associated with the Creative Commons and offers musicians an opportunity to share their unsigned songs with the world. You can sell the tracks through Sound Cloud or you can just distribute them to share with a genre specific audience or accross the entire range of music styles that are available to SC's members. Obviously the selling of tracks can be very beneficial but the distribution of your music via this site is a great way to promote your band or music to the world. Sound Cloud is a relatively new resource, it only sprung up last year and Nine Inch Nails were the first major band to try it out, see what they did.

This site has a month at a glance gig guide that can be added to but it is only as big as its user group. The gig information is supplied by the bands and musicians themselves rather than being a "managed" guide that supplies the gig info itself. its a bit like Gig Pig in that it is relying on its membership base to add flesh to the bone. On the Community tag there is an extensive bibliographic list of their blogs, Soulshine has a very large membership but I suspect that they are essentially music fans rather than musicians judging by the small amount of gigs. So the more musos the better, there are over 1000 members here already.

Support Act is a social support organisation of people who work in the music industry, generally Support Act is a social support organisation of people who work in the music industry, generally you have to have worked in the industry for a number of years before you can be eligable for a grant from them. But it is useful to know about the organisation and to become a member from when you start off in your career.

The Australian Film Television Radio School offers courses short and long in all these areas of the Arts Industry.

This site is for the performing arts generally but especially for music. It features quite a good interactive gig guide.

Fiercely Independant Radio Melbourne Australia