ELLY

Fed by curiosity, driven by heart, delivered with purpose.

Elly Hanlon works where story meets structure, where chaos becomes rhythm, and where the Australian music industry reveals both its brilliance and its fractures. She is a writer, creative strategist, and cultural advocate. For over a decade she has run multi-venue festivals, national talent pipelines, editorial platforms, artist campaigns, and crisis-response operations with the precision of someone trained in safety-critical environments.

She blends lyrical instinct with operational grit. A storm thinker with a surgeon’s discipline.

Elly is the founder of Rock N Roll Australia, and creator of a growing ecosystem designed to strengthen the creative sector from the inside out. Her work spans artist advocacy, event direction, editorial leadership, strategic development, poetic, childrens and longform writing.

Elly sees the moving parts few notice, the fault lines, the pressure points, the quiet moments that decide whether something holds. Whether she’s building a festival, rewriting a broken process, crafting a story that cuts to the bone, or stepping into a crisis operation, she works with clarity, integrity, and zero fear of breaking what needs to be rebuilt.

What drives her is simple: Artists deserve systems that hold, stories that honour them, and an industry that doesn’t collapse under its own weight.

Her values are sharp and non-negotiable: radical honesty, fierce advocacy, artist-first always.