Larry Heath

Larry Heath is an Australian publisher, events organiser, and entrepreneur. He is the founder-owner of Heath Media, which publishes online magazine The AU Review and hosts the National Live Music Awards. Heath is associate producer at Sounds Australia, and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Biography As a child, Larry Heath provided voice-overs for Radio Disney. He created a web and graphic design company while still in high school, then ran an online store and, briefly, an online publication. After completing high school, he attended Sydney University.

Heath founded The AU Review as a personal blog Heath Media was registered as a business name in June 2009.

Heath attended the WAM Festival conference in Perth in 2010 and 2014.

Heath directed the AU Live Music Awards in 2014 and 2015 under the auspices of Heath Media – the first awards dedicated solely to contemporary live music in Australia since the Jack Awards ended in 2007. They were the precursor to the National Live Music Awards (NLMAs), which have been run each year since 2016 save 2021 and 2022 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. In 2019 the NLMAs were held in Canberra as well as Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Launceston, Alice Springs, and Fremantle, and the categories were expanded to include jazz and classical music.

In January 2016 Heath left the role as editor-in-chief of The AU Review, in order to focus on the expansion of its parent company, Heath Media, into international media and events, including the NLMAs. That same year, he released the music video for "Laura", a cover of the Bat For Lashes song by Amanda Palmer and Brendan Maclean, which he directed.

In May 2017 Heath was appointed A&R Manager in Australia & New Zealand for Music Sales Creative. While at the company, he signed a number of artists including Beks, Harts, Jack Carty, Donny Benet and more. He also was Creative Producer on the collaborative Chess Records tribute record "Everybody Knows I'm Here", which was released in June 2022. He left this role in December 2022.

In January 2020, Heath was appointed associate producer at Sounds Australia, at the same time as singer-songwriter Leah Flanagan joined the team. He had previously collaborated with the team at Sounds Australia, including co-presenting "Jet Lag Sessions" at the CMJ conference in New York City from 2011 to 2013. He began his work there by attending the Folk Alliance International in New Orleans. and still associate producer at Sounds Australia. Later, the focus expanded to include visual art, film, theatre, food, lifestyle, travel, and gaming. It is aimed at ages 18 to 25.

On its 5th anniversary in 2013, boasting a monthly readership of 70,000+, The AU Review launched a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible, for it "is a 100% volunteer-based organisation", with the aim of supporting emerging Australian writers and photographers as well as musicians and live gigs. At that time, the publication covered "the arts, film, food, lifestyle, fashion, travel, Asian music and culture, and was about to start covering video games. It planned to relaunch with a series of events in major capital cities. In 2013 a sister publication, The Iris, launched to cover home entertainment, film, television, video games and tech content.

Heath Media has also run the annual Courtyard Sessions at the Seymour Centre in Sydney.