Rock Band Opens $35,000 In Bar Tabs For Their Fans After Melbourne Gig Was Canceled For Safety

Rock Band Opens $35,000 In Bar Tabs For Their Fans After Melbourne Gig Was Canceled For Safety

Rock Band Opens $35,000 In Bar Tabs For Their Fans After Melbourne Gig Was Canceled For Safety Amyl and the Sniffers in 2022 – credit, kingArthur_aus via Flickr, CC 2.0. An Australian punk rock band picked up the bar tabs for hundreds of people after a gig in Melbourne was shut down at the last minute due to security concerns. Amyl and the Sniffers are up for a Grammy this year, a year that also saw them open for fellow countrymen rockers AC/DC for a section of their tour. Just minutes before the headline act took the stage in Federation Square, the event organizer learned that rowdy fans had breached the heavy-duty barricades in multiple around the standing area, where a full capacity crowd of all-ages had been reached by 7:40 p.m. If the Sniffers’ guitars rang out over the city, there was “a very real risk of crowd crushes,” according to the organizer’s CEO Katrina Sedgwick. With children of all ages scattered throughout the crowd, it was a risk that could not be taken, and the concert w…