“I am not going to be too hard on my former management,” he wrote on Instagram. “They spread themselves too thin trying to support their people, and stuffed up the numbers.”
Not all of Ivanoff’s clients were so forgiving. Greg Larsen signed on with the company just a month ago: “Since Junkyard went insolvent, a lot of artists have been talking to each other, and realising that he owed more of his artists money than we thought.
“The artists haven’t been paid, and crew and other staff haven’t been paid.”
The timing is especially poor for comedians: Fringe World in perth, which traditionally marks the start of the festival touring season, is just two months away.
The Junkyard artists are now scrambling to find new management and producers, and to create publicity campaigns in time for their festival shows, in which they would typically expect to make the bulk of their yearly income.
Greg Larsen signed with Junkyard just a month ago.
Though many of the comedians spoke to this masthead about their frustration and concerns that they might never receive the money owed to them – in some cases, amounts totalling tens of thousands of dollars – few wanted to go on the record to attack their former management. In some…
