An institution for live music closes it’s under 18s door
It's in the news all over the country, live music in Australia is suffering with what feels like a live music venue shutting down every month. It was the all ages scene in Sydney, however, that suffered a massive blow this week.
The Manning Bar at Sydney University that staged licensed all ages events, that attracted a fair split between over and under 18s to their vast array of genres have announced that while they aren't shutting down, they won't be staging all ages music events any more.
The call comes not from the University but the Student Union who runs them and says that they want to rebrand the venue so it doesn't include "risky" or "loose" clientele.
Alex Pye from FBI spoke up against the move in a SMH report saying: "If they are looking at problem behaviour they can't just define it as a type of music," she said.
In the Messandnoise article, Student Union chief Paul McJannett was quoted from a statement from union: “All-age shows are typically where the licensee has to provide extra security controls and administration to ensure that no liquor licensing laws are breached." This is the only explanation as to why all ages events were now banned.
