DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS

greg borrowman

There’s a dearth of live music in Australia, and it’s not because we don’t have any musicians, or because Australians don’t want to hear live music. It’s because of politicians, bureaucracy, local councils and the intolerance of ordinary Australians. It’s getting so bad that about the only way you can hear live music now is to cough up a couple of hundred bucks to visit one of the ‘sanctioned’ (as in ‘we make a lot of contributions to political parties’) commercial venues in your capital city, or hop into your car and drive several hours out into the countryside to attend a music festival…except that in NSW, you won’t even be able to that, because the Berejiklian government has introduced new licensing requirements that make it virtually impossible for such…

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Australian HiFi (Digital) - 1 Issue, May - June 2019

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