AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSIC AND CULTURE LOVERS OF AUSTRALIA
DON’T LET THE BEREJIKLIAN GOVERNMENT
KILL LIVE MUSIC
February 13, 2019
Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 6pm – 8pm Thursday February 21st Hyde Park Sydney
Dear music lovers,
Your music is under attack.
Overbearing regulation, exorbitant police bills, a lack of respect for NSW businesses, and very little recognition of the significant positive impacts of music on our communities is forcing music out of NSW. The State Government have declared a war on music and culture in NSW, proclaiming that music, and music festivals are high-risk activities.
Music is being killed off by Premier Berejiklian and the LNP. Festivals are being forced to cancel or move interstate.
The NSW State Government is vilifying live music with knee-jerk regulation (more details here). Instead of consulting with festival experts, the NSW Government imposed punitive regulation that specifically targets music festivals and music fans. Festivals are being used as a scapegoat for years of failed drug and alcohol policy.
We want our music culture to be safe and inclusive. Onerous and ill-considered regulation will not save lives. And the State Government is decimating our music culture in the process.
We demand that the State Government:
- Stops killing live music in NSW
- Forms a music regulation roundtable to review all regulation impacting live music
- Immediately undertakes a Regulatory Impact Statement for any regulation impacting music festivals
- Develops an industry standard with full transparency for user-pays policing and medical services
- Works with the music industry to develop robust, effective and achievable safety protocols for festivals
Don’t let the Premier Berejiklian and the State Government take music away from you. You deserve better. NSW deserves better. Please see the list of signatories and supporters below…
| Signatories ¿Club D’érange? A.D.K.O.B Ability Fest Ableton Live School Adi Toohey Alien (promoter) Amy Shark Andras Andrew Wowk Bondi Beach Radio Decoded Magazine PACE Assoc of Artist Managers (AAM) Astral People Audience Republic Audiopaxx Australian Music Industry Australian Music Week B-MAN RENEGADE Syndicate AU B.B.E Babe Rave Sydney Babylon Festival Bakehouse Studios Bare Essentials Bare Necessities Music Bassic Records BeAvantGarde Ben Fester Bernard Fanning Best Effort Beyond The Valley Big Pineapple Music Festival Big Ting Recordings BIGSOUND Birds of Tokyo Bloods Bodyjar Bohemian Beatfreaks Boogie BPM Originals Bus Vipers Byron Bay Blues Fest Call & Response Cash Savage And The Last Drinks Cattleyard Promotions CC:Disco! Charades Events & Touring CHI WOA WAH TOWN Chromatic Chugg Entertainment Church of Techno CLEWS Cloud Control Code One Collective Artists Collision Course Colour Castle Common Ground Cosmos Midnight Courtney Barnett Crowbar Sydney Crown Ruler Cut Copy Dan Sultan Darren Middleton Days Like This Festival Defqon.1 Dew Process Division Agency DJ Earl Grey Download Festival Dragon Dreaming Drinks Dro Carey Dubcraft Dune Rats DZ Deathrays Electric Lady Electronic Music Conference Eleven: A Music Company Else Events Emma Bortignon Euca Music Management Euca Music Management ZigMon Eventbrite Australia Fair Go 4 Live Music Fairgrounds Festival Falls Festival Farmer and The Owl Festival Fbi Radio Feel Presents Felix Riebl Field Day Finely Tuned Finer Things Music & Events Flight Facilities FOMO Festival Freda & Jackson Freedom Time Frontier Touring Full Throttle Entertainment Fur Coat Club Future Classic Fuzzy GB3 GBVG Ghostly Glenn Bennie Good Intent Grapevine Gathering Greens MP Cate Faehrmann Greenwood Thursdays Grow Your Own Halcyon Drive Handsome Tours Harbourlife Hardware Heaps Gay Harold Harpoon Harry Harry James Angus Hatch Hayden James Heavenly (promoter) Helen Marcou AM Hellions Henry Rollins Hermitude Hockey Dad Holly Rankin Hopkins Creek House Of Mince I Know Leopard Ian Haug Icebergs Dining Room & Bar Illy IMC Agency Inertia Jack River Jack Shirnack Jagwar Ma James Pepper Jess Zammit John Collins John Waters Jon Perring Jonti Jordz Just a Gent KATO Ken Oath Records Kim Churchill King Of The North Kingdom Management Kingswood KLP KLUE Kooyeh Kylie Auldist Lama Vibraphonic Orkestra Laneway Festival Le Bruh Le Bruh Lemontree Music Let Them Eat Cake Listen Out Live Nation Australia Look Out Kid Management Lost Paradise Lost Picnic Lounge Melbourne Love Police ATM Love Police Touring LUFT Lunatic Entertainment Mad Racket Maric Media Mark Maxwell Maroochy Music & Visual Arts Festival Matty Bicket |
| Maurice Argiro Merve Kurtoglu Michael Parisi Management Micra Midnight Juggernauts Mike Waters Milan Ring Mildlife Milk! Records Milkcrate Events Millu Mirror Music Miss Blanks Mistletone MJR Presents Moonshoe Records Morning Belle Moshtix Mountain Sounds Festival Move Music Touring Mushroom Group Music NSW Music SA Music VIC Myriad Management nadiA Nathan Ball Network (AMIN) Network Connection Records New Years Evie Niche Agency Nick Spurway No ZU MusicNSW Novel NYE On The Hill Ocean Alley Ocean Grove Ocean Sounds Festival Oedura One Hit Agency Onelove Out On The Weekend Outpost Management Output Festival Oxford Art Factory Oztix Parade Touring Paradigm Party In The Paddock Paul Mac Peking Duk Pelican Villa Pelican Villa Penney & Logan Philadelphia Grand Jury Phillipa Nhill Picnic Touring & Events Piknic Electronik Melbourne Pitch Music & Arts Festival Plakkit Pleasure Coma Polish Club Projection Teknik Inner Varnika Projectionnik Psyfari PunkDaFunk QMusic Quincy Ian McLean AM Rabbits Eat Lettuce Rainbow Serpent Festival Ratbag Records REMI Return to Rio Festival Revolver Upstairs Rhys Muldoon Collarbones Richard Andrew Right Hand Management Rimbombo Rish PR Roland Tings Ruby Fields RÜFÜS DU SOL SAFIA Sam Conner Samsaruh Sarah Blasko Scrabble PR Secret Service PR Secret Sounds Touring Select Music Agency Sensible J Setwun SGC Music Group Shepz Simon Caldwell Skegss Sky Lounge SODF Something Else Events Something Unlimited Soundmerch Space 44 Spilt Milk Festival Splendour In The Grass Steeplejack Records Stewart D’arrietta Stoney Roads Strange Signals Strawberry Fields Strict Face Stuck Out Subsonic Music Swerve Productions Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Tash Sultana Team Leisurely TECHNICA Techno Time Techo Time TGMN That Gold Street Sound Fluff The Amity Affliction The Cat Empire The Dolphin Hotel The Drones The Elements of Tech & Bass The Faction Radio The Flinders Hotel The Harbour Agency The Hills Are Alive Festival The Hills Are Alive Group The House of Mince The Icebergs Group The Jezabels The Kite String Tangle The Music & Booze Co The Operatives The Pinheads The Presets The Record Store The Secret Garden Festival The Tote Thick As Thieves Ticketmaster Timeout Title Track Tixel Toni Yotzi Tony Mitchell (Sherbet) Touch Sensitive Triple R 102.7FM/Digital Trophy Eyes Tropical F*ck Storm True Vibe Nation Ugenius Music Underground Lovers Unified Music Group UNIFY Gathering Untitled Group Upstairs Music Val York Vance Joy Vera Blue Vibe Positive Viceroyalty Vincent Giarrusso Vincey Presents Violent Soho Viscera Arts Vision Hound Vita Artists VVV MGMT WAT Artists Wax O Paradiso Willaris. K Xe54 Your Army Music Yours and Owls ZigMon |
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
RALLY
Come to the Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 6pm – 8pmThursday Feb 21st, Hyde Park Sydney.
Register here: Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 2019
In an ironic twist, February 23rd will be the nine-year anniversary of the SLAM rally in Melbourne.
PETITION
Sign this petition to demand the Berejiklian government stop killing live music HERE.
Don’t let Gladys kill live music.
Don’t sit back and watch them ruin NSW.
WE ARE HERE. WE ARE LOUD. WE ARE ANGRY. AND WE VOTE!
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