Warehouse Parties in Sydney’s Inner West: Marrickville to jump on the Parramatta Rd Initiative

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Warehouse Parties in Sydney’s Inner West: Marrickville to jump on the Parramatta Rd Initiative

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Warehouse parties are a frequent occurrence in the suburb of Marrickville in Sydney’s Inner West. Due to this, the Marrickville council tonight will be reviewing research concerning music venues in the current economic environment and the laws that govern their conditions of operation. The first stage of the review will look at research concerning why legal local venues such as the Sandringham Hotel and Notes Enmore have closed down in effort to observe where business has gone. After this has been reviewed, further initiatives are going to be proposed that are congruent with the recently proposed Parramatta Rd initiative, which is aiming to turn Parramatta Rd from Sydney University to Taverners Hill into a live music and performing arts district.

In conjunction with this, there will be an examination and future research inquiries as to why the alternative music venues Dirty Shirlows and Median located in Marrickville’s industrial area, were denied licensing as legal music venues in effort to circumvent simular issues arising in the future.

Hopefully, reviews in this meeting will result in alterations of liquor laws, looser noise restriction laws and safer warehouse venues for those who wish to pursue hosting parties in such a location. Music NSW Executive Officer has expressed her sincere admiration in these issues being taken seriously by the council.

“Marrickville is home to some of the best music venues in Sydney- and it’s once-thriving warehouse scene has been incredibly important in providing a platform for emerging, independent and experimental musicians to flourish. While we are excited to see the Parramatta Rd item on the agenda, we urge Marrickville Council to pursue research into the costs, regulatory restrictions and accessibility requirements that lead to Dirty Shirlows and Median folding this year, and to continue fostering one of Sydney’s most vibrant creative communities. These warehouse spaces re-purposed unsightly industrial landscapes into an incredible underground scene that’s vital to the growth of the music industry, while providing space for independent collectives, artists and all manner of creative types to practice their art.”

This is one of hopefully many advancements we will see from Sydney’s governing bodies regarding the creation of more live music and performing arts in Sydney.
If pursued by various Australian based promoters the benefits of this to both the live music and the clubbing market could be massive.

However by commercializing the underground warehouse party culture, there is a potential for it be killed and swallowed up by the mainstream, or alternatively it may give the culture room to grow with out fear of being stifled by law. The outcomes of these two scenarios are likely to be highly dependant on which promoters land on the venues first.

Here is to hoping that these future venues go into business with intention of preserving the current culture and letting it grow in a fashion where it does not become swallowed by Sydney’s mainstream live music market.

The meeting tonight is at 2-14 Fisher Street Petersham from 6:30pm.

Sourced via the Music Network 

Update: Marrickville Council unanimously pass Parramatta proposal

Thanks to all who turned up to Marrickville Council meeting, the Parramatta Road Live Music Precinct proposal was passed unanimously, along with a commitment to engage with warehouse performance spaces in Marrickville as well as the broader community. Well done, everybody! Now the work begins.

 

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