EP178 – David Shoebridge & Bohemian Beatfreaks
December 2, 2018
Nick Wallis and Ash Blackwell discuss the week in news following the Victorian state election, as votes are still being counted.
INTERVIEWS:
NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge joins the program to discuss the on-going battle for pill testing in NSW as the festival season ramps up.
Erik Lamir-Pike, director of the Bohemian Beatfreaks festival and Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival in NSW joins the program to talk about the dramatic and unprecedented rise in user-pays policing fee put on them just weeks out from their festival, leading to a last minute location change across the NSW border into Queensland.
Read More:
- Can Bohemian Beatfreaks beat the ban? (The Music Network)
- NSW Police Are Being Accused Of Pricing Out A Music Festival With A Mandatory $200K Fee (Junkee)
- Police block ‘unsafe’ music festival (Northern Star)
- NSW Police unfairly target boutique music festival (Stoney Roads)
- Bohemian Beatfreaks to go on but not as planned (Echonet Daily)
