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By BRIAN GIFFIN
THE surprise pop-up show from Amyl and the Sniffers was shut down last night before the band got to play a note.
Announced on Thursday in between stints opening for AC/DC’s PWR UP tour, the free show was meant to be a celebration for their fans at Melbourne’s Federation Square.
Soon after openers Public Figures finished their set, a crowd surge caused the perimeter fence to be breached and finally collapse, resulting in Fed Square cancelling the Sniffers’ show before they could take the stage.
Due to “multiple breaches of the perimeter fences [which] caused a very high risk of crowd crushes,” the official statement declared, it was “unsafe for the show to continue.”
The band instantly replied: “We are so sorry the show is cancelled due to the event not organising the proper security and barriers and the barriers being broken in has made them deem it unsafe to play. We are fuming and shattered and so so so so so so so so sorry!!!”
To make it up to their fans, Amyl and the Sniffers then posted $5000 bar tabs at seven of Melbourne’s rock bars, including Cherry Bar, the Tote, the Last Chance, the Curtin, the Old Bar, Hell’s Kitchen and Labor in Vain.
