lost in melb.
10-22-2021, 10:57 AM
Before the pandemic hit, Melbourne had topped the world’s most liveable city list seven consecutive times and was the fastest-growing urban centre in Australia.
But as major cities shrugged off lockdown restrictions with the arrival of the vaccine, Melbourne’s shops remained shuttered, residents were under a 9pm curfew, and the usually buzzing city earned a new title: the world’s longest lockdown.
Now, after 262 days, Melbourne will take its final steps out of stay-at-home orders on Friday, 22 October, battered but hopeful.
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The Prince Bandroom in Melbourne’s St Kilda during Covid lockdown.
‘Kicking us when we’re down’: Melbourne entertainment venues vexed by ‘typo’ in Covid roadmap
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Georgia Farry has been the band booker at Collingwood institution the Gasometer Hotel for four years. She says the past two have been a “rollercoaster of emotions”.
When shows were first cancelled, Farry felt an “initial sense of doom”.
“Then the most scary thing was … not just the announcement of another lockdown but what was to come after that – the painfully slow recovery,” she says.
“We’d open but in what capacity? We’re still working on rescheduling shows from a year ago.”
Now that the Victorian state government has released its final roadmap to reopening, which in large part excludes the arts and entertainment sector, Farry feels shut out.
“Everyone is celebrating about coming out of lockdown but we still feel left behind, venues have been left to bleed out,” she says.
The final stage of the Victorian roadmap caps venues at one person per 4 sq m, which has left many in the entertainment industry “scratching their heads”....
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/22/melbourne-freedom-day-worlds-most-locked-down-city-takes-first-cautious-steps-to-reopening
But as major cities shrugged off lockdown restrictions with the arrival of the vaccine, Melbourne’s shops remained shuttered, residents were under a 9pm curfew, and the usually buzzing city earned a new title: the world’s longest lockdown.
Now, after 262 days, Melbourne will take its final steps out of stay-at-home orders on Friday, 22 October, battered but hopeful.
https://i.ibb.co/djnVG4J/4100.jpg (https://ibb.co/LY4cndh)
The Prince Bandroom in Melbourne’s St Kilda during Covid lockdown.
‘Kicking us when we’re down’: Melbourne entertainment venues vexed by ‘typo’ in Covid roadmap
Read more
Georgia Farry has been the band booker at Collingwood institution the Gasometer Hotel for four years. She says the past two have been a “rollercoaster of emotions”.
When shows were first cancelled, Farry felt an “initial sense of doom”.
“Then the most scary thing was … not just the announcement of another lockdown but what was to come after that – the painfully slow recovery,” she says.
“We’d open but in what capacity? We’re still working on rescheduling shows from a year ago.”
Now that the Victorian state government has released its final roadmap to reopening, which in large part excludes the arts and entertainment sector, Farry feels shut out.
“Everyone is celebrating about coming out of lockdown but we still feel left behind, venues have been left to bleed out,” she says.
The final stage of the Victorian roadmap caps venues at one person per 4 sq m, which has left many in the entertainment industry “scratching their heads”....
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/22/melbourne-freedom-day-worlds-most-locked-down-city-takes-first-cautious-steps-to-reopening