The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been cancelled in the wake of advice issued on Friday to disallow planned gatherings of more than 500 people.
Even before the announcement at COAG around 3pm, the Download music festival planned for Sydney and Melbourne next weekend had been called off, following the decision by headline act My Chemical Romance not to travel to Australia because of coronavirus concerns. Chief executive Chrissy Sharp said more information would be made available on Monday. "We are now carefully working through the next steps," she said in a statement. "Thank you for your patience and forbearance."
"There’s a difference between giving advice and issuing a direction," said Live Performance Australia chief executive Evelyn Richardson, who labelled Friday’s announcement “very confusing”. “This will have a debilitating impact on the live music sector until the crisis stabilises and we enter recovery phase in the second half of the year,” Mr Donovan said.
Just not funny 😄
So maybe the comedians can do their shows via webinar and people pay to attend virtually. We can still support the industry and get a laugh. Win win melbourneinternationalcomefyfestival
'This is no laughing matter' Neither was the comedy.
Very sad 😪
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