Truth hits for cancelled Bluesfesters

Bluesfest would have been the first main dwell tunes party to return to Australia since the pandemic, and its cancellation two many years running has taken a enormous toll not just on the stay audio sector, but the city that has hosted it for 32 decades.

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The generally blasé Byron locals were sporting marks all about town. Patrons at the Byron Beach Hotel have been requested to wear masks if not having or consuming. Retailers and boutiques imposed a 6-human being limit and compulsory hand sanitising.

Musicians like Steve Kilbey, the Coogee-dependent lead singer of The Church, was in Kingscliff when he listened to the Byron Bay Bluesfest, that his band was because of to headline, experienced been cancelled.

He was currently anxious their Brisbane-primarily based guitarist Ian Haug wouldn’t make it for their Friday night time functionality for the reason that of the Better Brisbane lockdown. By the time that lockdown experienced lifted at midday on Thursday though, the festival was cancelled and the gray skies had opened on the north coastline.

Jo Drummond of Bondi Junction built it as significantly as Coffs Harbour when she heard it was cancelled and made a decision to keep at the Anuka Beach resort fairly than carry on on to Byron, and continue to keep their tickets rather than talk to for a refund.

“I sense so unhappy for all people musos and suppliers in Byron, we will most likely go away our tickets in the mix for when they do it all over again,” she claimed.