Musicians, some of whom had been in the industry for decades, suddenly found themselves out of work.

Some took the time to focus on other things, while others had some much needed time off and tried to hone their creative craft.

Most would have been hoping that as restrictions eased, events would have returned and the live music scene would come back to life.

But that hasn't been the case. Tasmania has been at relaxed restrictions for more than two months but bands Just Flare and Paper Souls are yet to play a gig in front of a live crowd.

Hannah Lawes, lead singer for Just Flare, said she had expected people to be eager to go out and see live music after being stuck at home.

"Before it sort of felt like people took live music for granted ... there was either so much of it around or just not as much of an appreciation as there used to be," she said.

"So I was really hoping that because people couldn't go out, that they would come out and really listen intently and be there for the music and the experience."

Her bandmate Zac Jessup also expected people to been eager to see live music after the lockdown.

But Lawes said so far there hadn't been a noticeable change to the scene in Launceston.

Paper Souls singer Sarah Triffitt said the pandemic may have changed people's priorities when it came to attending live shows.

"Maybe not everybody is chomping at the bit to get out yet," she said.

"It is probably very 50-50, there is a group of people who probably at the Oak every weekend and then there is a heap of people sitting at home petrified perhaps about what will happen tomorrow."

Triffitt and Paper Souls were in the exciting position of preparing for an album launch before the pandemic struck.

Now they are left with the tough choice of whether to release their music without being able to tour.

"We would have liked to have played, done a tour and at least hopped around Tasmania to some decent audiences," Triffitt said.

"We still don't really know what we are going to do, we are going to release it, we can't sit on it forever - it has always been 10 years in the making."

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But it is not all doom and gloom. Triffitt said she, and her band mate and husband, had used the shutdown to reconnect with family.

She said they had been able to spend more time with their kids and had reorganised their priorities.

"[For me and my husband] it has really been refocusing on our family, on our own little unit and on our health," Triffitt said.

"Kind of rediscovering our creativity again and our place in music."

Lawes echoed the sentiments about the positives of the lockdown. She said it had given people time to focus on what they were trying to say through their music.

"I probably didn't play any music for a month or a month and half during [lockdown] and I found that so helpful," Lawes said.

"I found it really helpful to be like 'okay what do I want to say and what would people benefit from hearing'."

North-West musician Clinton Hutton has also used the lockdown to reassess his priorities. He found work as a teacher's aid during the lockdown and is now expecting music to be just a hobby for at least another year.

"I'm just bidding my time until we can all get back into it full swing again," Hutton said.

Triffitt said it would help musicians when people were allowed to stand up and dance in bars again but in the meantime the best way to support Tasmanian acts was to stream their music.

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