I support John Wardle's cause for getting live music into our pubs. Music is cultural live, is participative and can only bring a positive atmosphere to an area which is often dominated by dull and socially destructive poker machines. Good luck with your work Jon.
because on at least two accounts, music is an essential part of human life: 1. The listener is affected and, if suitably sensitive to the subtlety that only LIVE music offers, they are touched and possibly even healed of their ills due to the divine nature of musical arts, and; 2. Anyone choosing to play music professionally in NSW has the right to be afforded to opportunity to do so without having to cut any red tape. Culture is life itself! DG
I as a musician support live music for its social,cultural and entertainment implications. To make redundant such an expressive medium so fundemental in the fabric of human experience and society would be a travesty of the worst kind.
I am a professional musician now well into my forties. I work regularly overseas and interstate. Very little of my live performances occur in NSW. I cannot understands these strange laws that make NSW alone in the world in what amounts to a suppression of cultural life and employment opportunities. Try Melbourne, Adelaide - Austin Texas !! just about anywhere in Europe - Ireland especially - and you will see the economic and social benefits of musician friendly legislation. The existing legislation belongs to the bad old "beer barn" days in the 70's and 80's of corruption and control in the liquor trade. Time for a big change.
I support this petition as a professional musician who cannot understand why it has become so hard for my colleagues and I to gain work in Sydney and NSW in general. Other states in this country run their licencing effectively without discrimintaing against those hotels that wish to put on live music and employ people rather than music video jukeboxes, noisy sporting events and the like. Live music adds to the vibrancy of any city and does not detract from the neighbourhood when managed controls are in place. Recently a hotel near where I live was refused an entertainment licence as it was not "in the community interest", however, the same council actually runs a campaign to promote the area as an "Entertainment Precinct". There are too many regulations, prohibitations and misguided voices guarding their new bought property interests in Sydney and if it doesn't get turned around soon, the city will find most of it's artists will have relocated to another city to live and work. That's the reality many are faced with.
music is an international language bridging cultures of the world. Let Australia foster an environment where Australian talents are nurtured and advanced. Let Australia express Australian culture through music and make a mark on the world.
When the anti smoking laws com in effect no one will want to go to pubs. they will have no business and no one will want to sink money into the pokies as going outside the pub to have a cigarette will break their concentration on gambling.
music brings happiness to everyone in earshot! It is a powerful and wonderful thing, and it needs to be free to have its way with us! It is a wholesome, inherently creative act... exciting and stimulating to witness, in a world currently dominated by tv screens (which do little to stimulate our minds and souls)... I also support this petition for all the very good reasons already listed on this petition!
because our current legislation denies musicians opportunities for work. The National Review of Music in SChools shows the demand that parents have for their children to learn music, but we can't support that demand if there are no opportunities for musicians to play and be heard.
I believe that all music, either it be live or coming from a poker machine etc be placed equally and fairly under the one law. And the rights of workers including musicians be considered highly in this situation.Especially after the fact that the state labour government who's origins come from the working class should respect the rights of musicians and workers more than gambling revenue.
because nothing less than a proliferation of live music will balance a culture dominated by sport.There is great interest in music at the educational level and within local communities yet there are mountains of legislative obstacles in the way for venues, musicians and organisations to be able to respond to this interest.
because music is an integral part of community and our societies voice and the current laws support mostly negative aspects of our communities behaviour.
because of the lack of government understanding of how new regulations effect the livlihoods of so many musicians.
In other countries for example , so many poker machines in a club or pub requires so many people to be in the band. Another gripe is how clubs are are allowed under NSW law, to class Bingo and other such money making games, as entertalnment. Whens the last time you went to WATCH a game of bingo.
Music is our bread and butter. For most of us, this is our sole income, this is our job position, this is our employment. Just like council and government have a position of employment. Well so do we!
This reform is long overdue & vitally important for the future of live music in NSW. As the state with the biggest cultural centre in the nation and the largest number of musicians, it's truly sad that we have the most unecessarily complex, expensive, time-consuming, inconsistent, illogical and anti-competitive regulations in the nation.
Dave Panichi
This legislation is major sop to the multinationals that control the recorded music industry and an affront to both the population at large and the amateur/semi-professional music industry in general.
