The state government has been slammed for waging war on music festivals, but it would be irresponsible if it turned a blind eye to what was happening inside them.
But with thousands of ardent punters supporting the Don’t Kill Live Music cause, the NSW Government introducing flawed licensing schemes and festival organisers caught in the crossfire, the real victims — artists — are being forgotten.Source:News Corp Australia Not only is this confronting and distracting, but when you see people being arrested or carted off on a stretcher it takes away from the main spectacle — the bands.Which is why the argument that’s fronting the fight is growing more and more frustrating. Lay off the government because there is no way it will ever allow drug use.
That's rubbish. 148 people died in a place crash last night do you then ban air travel how about 9/11 do you ban air travel after that? NO The right to party is more important then air travel.
Festival goers that take drugs are killing the live music industry......along with themselves!
For a start the rally was not just about festivals it was about the death of live music venues around Sydney due to things like the lockout laws and poker machines taking over pubs!
What a ridiculous value laden statement. Drug use will just go further underground, and festivals will end up policing themselves. What a silly thing to say publicly. All evidence internationally points to harm minimumization successes.
I suppose blues fest is moving it’s 50 year olds out of NSW because of rampant drug use?!? What an idiot. Try researching the new terms, conditions and costs being forced on festivals by the nsw gov and police before writing your article. Did you just guess?
what a load of absolute rubbish... Is Imogen Reid the work experience kid there 5 people have died at a concert and this is an epidemic? So these 5 people make up what percentage of total drug deaths? I'd hazard less than 1%.. Journalism at its worst.. ill-informed nonsense..
Wow! That’s the most delusional, ignorant article about killing music festivals yet. So it was punter drug use that killed Mountain Sounds, after TEN YEARS, when they were headlined by ANGUS & JULIA STONE?!? NOT the police bill rising from $16k to $200k 1 week b4 the festival!?!?
If people want to take drugs they will. Taking drugs at Festival with paramedics, first aiders and drug professionals is the SAFEST place to take drugs. Otherwise, they'll just take drugs in an unsupervised park or house with no access to potential medical care.
'Just don't take drugs' has/will never be the answer. Get your head out of the sand.
Let them do their drugs. But make them sign a waiver for medical treatment and give the paramedics the day off. Im sure the paramedics on standby would rather be doing something better with their saturdays than waiting for some selfish idiot to spear in.
If the issue is 'fighting for their right to take drugs', as the article alludes to, why wouldn't they just take drugs somewhere else? Obviously people believe it makes listening to music more enjoyable & that this has been the case for more than 50 years.
No your a cost to the tax payer. Every time a ambo has to come safe your dumb life someone else misses out. If you need drugs to have a good time the world is in trouble.
All drugs, no responsibility.
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