AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSIC AND CULTURE LOVERS OF AUSTRALIA
DON’T LET THE BEREJIKLIAN GOVERNMENT KILL LIVE MUSIC
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…
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
RALLY
Come to the Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 6pm – 8pm Thursday Feb 21st, Hyde Park Sydney
PETITION
Sign this petition to demand the Berejiklian government stop killing live music
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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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
WME
Xe54
Your Army Music
Yours and Owls
ZigMon
