Bakehouse's owners Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean are the co-founders of grassroots movement SLAM (Save Live Australia’s Music) - an activist group that staged the SLAM rally of 2010 where 20,000 protesters marched on Parliament House in Melbourne in support of Live Music. The SLAM rally was described as “the largest cultural protest in Australia’s history”. 

Helen and Quincy continue to advocate for reforms in the contemporary music sector and we now see live music firmly on the political agenda. Helen is a member of the Victorian State Government’s Live Music Roundtable and the City of Yarra’s Live Music Working Group