Bring Back Music :: Bring Back 24 Hour Drinking

During the Sars2 times I came up with an idea to help musicians and live music venues get back on their feet and also bring back 24 hour SUPERMARKETS... Bring back 24 hour drinking!

Save The Whales... fat singers that is

In order to save and bless the nearly extinct remaining live music venues still operating in Auckland, they should be gifted an automatic deregulation of their opening hours (so they can operate 24 hours if they wish, they aint obliged to do shit). And no more sound control on till midnight on Friday for all bands citywide including rehearsals and recordings.

If your venue has over 26+ events per year = Live Music Venue

Any venue that can prove they are live music venue qualifies.

Qualification is done each 5 years by sending 10 promotional 1st party original art files (PDFs) or 3rd party verified event listings (URLs), with earliest and latest dates not more than 140 days apart thereby proves by extrapolation they host at least 26 events per year would qualify. A gig each fortnight. Nightclubs would need to have more than just a resident DJ (or an iPod hooked up) to qualify typically, as a live music event, unless the events have original (I'LL BE THE JUDGE) artworks designed and supplied and URL method not available (anti-spam).

So a place like Portland Public House would easily qualify, whereas a casino bars like Sky Shitty not so much.

Electronic music events would not be able to use the URL method to qualify but can still do so using the PDF promotional artwork method.

Rugby World Cup 2012

Auckland hosted the rugby world cup in 2012 before a law change in 2014 which made Auckland a very boring place for international traveler.

So naturally the fucking cunts in Wellington made an exception for that and Sky Shitty, WHICH IS NOW THE ONLY FUCKING PLACE WITH 24 HOUR DRINKING IN AUCKLAND! It used to house New Zealand's only 24 hour BNZ bank branch too by the way.

As you can see <sarcasm> I'm not at all bitter about it. </sarcasm>

About The Author

Tom Atkinson - Musician, web app coder, artist, scientist, wanker... and now... ninja of local body politics!

I've been quoted as saying that I believe Auckland traffic congestion would be reduced if we bring back 24 hour drinking *jokes* hey maybe it would?

Actually I was thinking about the effect COVID will probably have on the industry and this is my contribution to make it all better. It also marks my entry into local body politics! Ask me about my other policies!

Lyrics

Trying to get by as a musician today takes all the booze ya got

Repealing the 2014 ammendings to the liquor licensing act would be a pretty good place to stop

So wouldn't you like to see a live music or watch a band

Sometimes you wanna say - Bring back the music - to Auckland city

Bring back 24 liquor licenses - to all the bars and venues shown

Then we can have a music scene and not be such an embarrassment to overseas travelers from New York City

Taxi to supermarket's for 24 hour boozing

That's why if you buy my album enough times, and convince me to run for Mayor and win,

When I am elected as Mayor of Auckland...

I will personally see to it that there is a) No sound control for you or your party on YOUR BIRTHDAY* and b) No sound control for *booked* musical acts if you supply council with your poster or event info 6 weeks in advance and c) No sound control for any musical act whether at, but not limited to any of; rehearsal practice; soundcheck; main performance, encore, pack-out or any other purpose that does not harm people or the environment from 4:20 pm on Fridays until 11:55 pm!! Vote Tom for Mayor 2040. or i kill ya.

* although seemingly unimportant trivial and useless clause, actually this is by far the most powerful clause because if you think about it with your brain and not your dick, this means that any event with more than 365 people in attendance is likely to be automatically protected by the clause since there is a 100% probability it is someones birthday that day.