The rooms Red Riders used to play in have long since shut their doors but ahead of a reunion gig their frontman is positive approximately the city’s music scene
When people lament the death of Sydney’s live music scene,they talk approximately it in sweeping, nostalgic terms. It used to be thriving, and progressive,supportive and pervasive; we’d bounce from gig to gig, from King’s Cross to Oxford Street, or wake up late the next afternoon to count the stamps on our arms. But in the wake of Sydney’s lockout laws and venue closures,as an impenetrable property market pushes young people further out, that scene no longer exists – at least, or not as we knew it.
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Source: theguardian.com