Promoter Slams Govt For ‘Disgraceful’ Treatment Of Live Industry As Another Festival Axed

Another major event has fallen victim to the latest outbreak of COVID and organisers have had enough.

New Aussie festival Full Tilt has been forced to axe the Sydney leg of its run “due to the New South Wales' Government's decision to extend their current Public Health Order COVID restrictions by a further month”.

The new event was scheduled to go down at Bella Vista Farm in just under a month with a line-up that boasted Northlane, Thy Art Is Murder, Frenzal Rhomb, Luca Brasi and stacks more.

“We have zero confidence in any of the state governments anymore,” promoter Chris O’Brien said. 

“They constantly backflip on restrictions with absolutely no notice or industry consultation. For the most part we have been disgracefully and completely ignored by the States and the Federal Government.

“Two years in and we still have no ability to trade and generate income as an industry on a national level. We have no grants coming in, no job keeper, no National insurance scheme so when the States do pull the rug from under us with no notice we are left high and dry.

“Where we thought there was light at the end of the tunnel late last year has very quickly evaporated and we sit here now with more uncertainty than ever before. They say it’s the darkest before dawn…well dawn feels like an eternity away.”

Full Tilt Festival will still go ahead in Melbourne and Brisbane in March and April.