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Thousands of millennials who can’t really be fucked to go see a band this weekend gathered in Sydney’s Hyde Park last night to protest the NSW government’s live music regulations.
The protest was organised in protest of the NSW Liberal Government’s ongoing assault on life music, namely the lockout laws that the Labor opposition have no intention of repealing because they are just as controlled by the residential developers as the current government. The protesters were also rallying against the government’s guidelines for music festival organisers, published late last year, suggest any outdoor event will almost certainly be considered high-risk or even extreme and be subject to a licence fee.
Local die-hard Ocean Alley fan, Annarabellaella Genwhy (25) says it’s so ridiculous that an inner-Sydney nightlife can’t exist somewhere in the peripheral of her young adulthood.
“It’s so ridiculous, you know it’s just the Gambling Lobby that invented the lock out laws so they could get the 30,000 people who used to go out each night in Sydney to dance in the Star Casino instead”
Annarabellaella says while obviously everything that is wrong with Sydney is Gladys’ fault – she does acknowledge that perhaps this protest in support of music festivals and the Sydney live music scene could have come a bit sooner.
“If only we had been as reactionary as the greyhound racing community in 2014, maybe they would have overturned the laws immediately”
“But I was too busy going through a break up with one of the guys that used to do home job tattoos at kick ons with Danny Clayton”
When asked if she had plans to go see a band this weekend, Annarabellaella said she’d love to but she’s just halfway through a really etch true crime podcast about violent crimes against young women, and she’s absolutely hooked, but like next weekend, for sure.
