SAVE OUR STAGES
NSW petition
NSW venues
are urging the government
to save the state’s live music industry
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Click to sign the petition
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With the NSW music scene on the brink of collapse, 61 independent live music venues have joined together to launch an online petition calling on the NSW Government to provide immediate support to save the state’s live music industry.
CEO and Founder of the Oxford Art Factory, Mark Gerber, said, “The Queensland and Victorian Governments have committed millions of dollars in support to their venues, we now look to the NSW Government to show their support.’
‘Without NSW Government intervention, many of our favourite venues will soon be forced to close and with them, tens of thousands of jobs will be lost.’
The petition is calling on the NSW Government to work with MusicNSW and industry representatives to devise a stimulus package that will ensure the ongoing survival of live music venues. A package that will support the artists and communities who depend on live music for their existence, safeguard the future of the industry, and save our stages.
Gerber continued, ‘If supported to survive, the NSW live music industry will be able to quickly reboot a vast network of jobs and ancillary businesses, rebuild communities and restore the social confidence crucial to a dynamic economy.”
The petition follows months of stringent COVID safety measures and social distancing restrictions which have led the venues to operate under reduced capacities and with higher staff overheads.
For an industry that operates on a very lean profit model, this has proved devastating, with many venues now facing the possibility of permanent closure before the end of the financial year.
Tyla Dombroski, Co-Owner of Crowbar Sydney said, “Live music venues help to bring people together and provide an essential space for music, culture and community to flourish. We must do everything we can to protect and save our local venues before they disappear forever.”
The venues calling for support include The Enmore Theatre, the North Wollongong Hotel, The Concourse in Chatswood, the Smokey Horse in Braidwood, the Star Court Theatre in Lismore, the Wagga Wagga Boat Club and the New England Hotel in Armidale.
To help protect our local music venues, support our artists and save live music in NSW, sign the petition HERE.
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The venues who have joined the Save Our Stages NSW campaign include:
107 Projects, Redfern
Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul
Bargo Sports Club, Bargo
Batlow Hotel, Batlow
Beach Hotel, Byron Bay
Botany View Hotel, Newtown
Brunswick Picture House, Brunswick
Butcher’s Brew, Dulwich Hill
Candelo Hotel, Candelo
Crowbar, Leichhardt
Doodle Cooma Arms Hotel, Henty
Foundry616, Ultimo
Frank’s Wild Years, Thirroul
Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney
Gasoline Pony, Marrickville
Howl & Moon Records, Byron Bay
Hustle and Flow Bar, Redfern
Knox St Bar, Chippendale
Lazybones, Marrickville
Lord Gladstone, Chippendale
Low 302, Surry Hills
Manning Bar, Camperdown
Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville
Mary’s Underground, Circular Quay
Max Watts, Moore Park
Milton Theatre, Milton
MoshPit, Erskineville
Navigate Arts, Tanja
New England Hotel, Armidale
North Wollongong Hotel, North Wollongong
Old 505 Theatre, Newtown
Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
Roundhouse, Kensington
Smokey Horse, Braidwood
Spring Street Social, Bondi
Star Court Theatre, Lismore
Tathra Hotel, Tathra
The Bearded Tit, Redfern
The Commercial Hotel, Junee
The Concourse Chatswood
The Enmore Theatre, Enmore
The Factory Theatre, Marrickville
The Imperial Erskineville
The Junkyard, Maitland
The Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale
The Marlborough Hotel, Newtown
The Metro Theatre, Sydney
The Newsagency, Camperdown
The Northern, Byron Bay
The Red Rattler, Marrickville
The Snow Goose Hotel, Adaminaby
The Studio, Armidale
The Town Hall Hotel, Newtown
The Vanguard, Newtown
Tumut River Brewing Co., Tumut
Two Fingers Gentlemen’s Bar, Albury
UOW Unibar, Wollongong
Valve Bar and Venue, Sydney
Wagga Wagga Boat Club, Wagga Wagga
Wayward’s at The Bank, Newtown
Yulli’s Brews, Alexandria
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