It’s time to stand up to the Berejiklian-lead State Government clamping down on festivals and live music.

Having seen the cancellation of Psyfari and Mountain Sounds Festival in the past 10 days, due to to their inability to cope with the excessive regulations being forced upon by the NSW Government, a group of musicians, punters, venues, and events companies have banded together to give the Gladys Berejiklian a giant middle finger.

The ‘Don’t Kill Live Music Rally’ is happening next Thursday at Hyde Park, and if you’re a fan of attending gigs, venues, or art shows, you should do everything in your power to get there. Organisers have outlined the following demands of the State Government:

-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.

Sounds pretty reasonable to us. Be sure to get yourself along to the event (here), sign the petition here, and don’t forget that the government works for you.