News Sydney lockout laws are slipping away as more venues are granted extended trading hours by Freya McGahey An extra 30 minutes have been added to the trading hours of a heap of Sydney music venues in spite of lockout laws and we are all rejoicing! Kings Cross…
Magazine Keeping Sydney Open: a late night conversation with Tyson Koh by Tom Cameron Even before Sydney’s night-time economy was hamstrung under 2014’s now infamous lockout laws, Keep Sydney Open was fighting the good fight. An advocacy group turned cultural phenomenon, the volunteer-run organisation now…
News Lockout flaws: extended trading hours are slowly being granted for venues in the CBD, but is it too late? by Molly Ulm There is very, very slow progress towards the depletion of the “draconian” lockout laws that currently plagues the Sydney CBD. While a number of venues still wait for their applications to be…
News PREMIERE: Soulful, catchy and daring, Brother Brad come out swinging with their debut track Get Around by Happy Even for listeners who aren’t particularly inclined to the big band, soul leanings of Brother Brad, it’s impossible to deny the allure of acts like theirs. They may not compose…
News New South Wales Premier Mike Baird resigns by Happy In an unexpected and immediate decision this morning, the contentious Premier of New South Wales Mike Baird has resigned. Currently at the halfway point of his political term, Baird has spent…
News Still mourning Bar Century? Join thousands of people who feel the same with Keep Sydney Open for their third rally through the city by Molly Ulm For some Sydneysiders February 2014 marks the beginning of the slow demise of their city’s nightlife and the array of diverse culture that came with it. As an oppositional response…
News Music heals all wounds, right? Labor’s Seven Step Plan is showcasing how live music may resurrect Sydney’s night life by Agnes O'Dwyer The Sydney live music scene, in the wake of a seven step plan put forward by the Mike Baird’s Labor government, may be resurrected from a death caused by lockout…
Features More and more countries are seeing the value of music as culture and we’re still fucking complaining about noise at the Opera House by Susie Garrard The value of music is in question. But then that’s hardly news; for decades, popular music has been the victim of cultural elitism. Even just comparing the pervading stereotype of…
Interviews Want some advice on keeping Sydney’s scene alive? SUIIX has dropped some knowledge in the lead-up to Rattle Sydney by Nick Stillman For the past few months talk about town over the lockout laws has been rattling everyone’s bones. The fear of losing our once vibrant and iconic nightlife and live music…
Features The future of Sydney live music: King Street Crawl and the inner-west by Nick Stillman September 2015 marked a milestone for the revival of Sydney’s bedraggled music scene: the King Street Crawl. On Sunday the 6th, the inner precinct of Newtown banded together for a day…
Lists Fuck the lockouts. These 8 venues are carrying the flame for Sydney live music and you should be supporting them by Happy There’s no denying that Sydney’s live music seen has taken a massive hit since the abominable lockout laws were introduced back in 2014. There have been some exceptions with resilient…
News Slumberhaze make an important statement in their infinitely entertaining video, Neon Demon by Jesse Tachibana Constant growth is an intrinsic component of life, whether you acknowledge it or not. As we live, we learn. Along our infinitely diverse paths of personal progression, it is only…
Features Thank God we’re finally safe, where would this youth-overrun country be without lockout laws to protect us? by Dustin Calder Everywhere you look you see some blurry eyed stoner, or worse, some coke addled ex bar owner complaining about the liquor legislation in NSW as if it’s only just become…
