CHECK OUT THE KEEP SYDNEY OPEN RALLY

By James Branson

In 2010, live music advocacy group SLAM (Save Live Australia’s Music) staged a rally in Melbourne in response to lockouts. The turnout was estimated to be 17,000 people and is attributed to the removal of the Melbourne lockout!

Keep Sydney Open are holding a rally on Sunday 21st February, meeting at Belmore Park in Central at 12:30pm.

The rally will then make its way into the CBD just after 1pm, stopping by soon-to-close venueBar Century to conduct a mock-funeral for all the closed venues, small businesses and jobs lost since the lockouts.

There will be speeches and performances from, Isabella Manfredi (The Preatures),  Dave Faulkner (Hoodoo Gurus), Bernard Keane (Crikey), Tyson Koh (Keep Sydney Open), Art vs Science (Musical performance), Royal Headache (Musical performance).

More speakers will be announced during the week. Get down and show your support and then move onto Fair Day in Victoria Park, Astral People’s Summer Dance at National Art School, Harpoon Harry’s or the Future Classic x Museum of Contemporary Art event afterwards.