{"id":284613,"date":"2025-11-14T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284613\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:49:11","slug":"amyl-and-the-sniffers-free-gig-shut-down-over-security-fears-at-fed-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284613\/","title":{"rendered":"Amyl and the Sniffers’ free gig shut down over security fears at Fed Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

A free gig by Australian rockers Amyl and the Sniffers has been shutdown after security fences at Federation Square “got crushed in”.<\/p>\n

Lead singer Amy Taylor blew up on Instagram, saying “you simply cannot imagine the tantrum I am having” at missing out on performing the free gig in the band’s hometown of Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“So, so, so sorry, we’re really sad,” Taylor said in a selfie video.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Fed Square said it “did not take this decision lightly”. (Simon Schluter)\"\"\/Lead singer Amy Taylor blew up on Instagram, saying “you simply cannot imagine the tantrum I am having”. (Instagram)<\/p>\n

“We’re backstage, we literally would have loved to play, we’re devastated.<\/p>\n

“The f—ing fences got crushed in, too many people, f—ing cops shut it down. (We’re) p—ed as f—, p—ed off, and we’re just really apologetic and so sorry.”<\/p>\n

Fed Square said in a statement it was forced to cancel the show “after multiple breaches of the perimeter fences caused a very high risk of crowd crushes”.<\/p>\n

“It was unsafe for the show to continue,” Fed Square said.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/There were “multiple breaches” of the fences at the gig, Fed Square said. (Simon Schluter)<\/p>\n

“We did not take this decision lightly and are deeply sorry for any disappointment caused, however tonight could simply not continue.<\/p>\n

“Our sincere apologies to the band and their fans.”<\/p>\n

Taylor and the rest of the band returned to Instagram later to say they had put $5000 bar tabs on at seven Melbourne venues for disappointed fans to “have a drink on us”.<\/p>\n

“We’re not doggin’ ya, it’s because a bunch of people rushed the f—ing barriers and so it wasn’t safe, and especially because it was all ages, we just can’t have that, we don’t want anyone having a shit time,” Taylor said.<\/p>\n

She also posted on her Instagram Story that she would be dealing with her frustrations by getting “blackout drunk somewhere in mourning”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A free gig by Australian rockers Amyl and the Sniffers has been shutdown after security fences at Federation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-284613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}