{"id":720084,"date":"2026-06-07T01:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720084\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:19:14","slug":"concerts-to-get-louder-in-common-sense-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720084\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerts to get louder in ‘common sense’ changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gigs at one of Australia’s most famous landmarks are set to get louder.<\/p>\n

Along with lifting capacity limits, sound regulation for late-night concerts at the Sydney Opera House’s forecourt will be raised to be consistent with settings for daytime gigs.<\/p>\n

NSW ministers labelled the tweaks as common sense and said sound restrictions would no longer be determined by residents of the ‘Toaster’ – the nearby luxury apartment building whose residents have regularly complained about noise.<\/p>\n

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The change could upset the notoriously noise-averse residents in the tower dubbed “The Toaster”. (Nadir Kinani\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n

Notably, the Opera House copped a $15,000 fine after residents complained about the volume of a performance from English band Florence and The Machine in 2015.<\/p>\n

“Over the decades it became a Sydney sport to move in next door to a pub and then campaign to close it down,” Arts and Night-time Economy Minister John Graham said on Sunday<\/p>\n

“We are putting an end to that and the same approach should apply to the world’s greatest performance venue.<\/p>\n

“The Sydney Opera House is everyone’s house and these changes make sure the experience matches the epic setting.”<\/p>\n

Another infamous incident saw Crowded House frontman Neil Finn mock the complaining residents throughout a run of shows in 2016, including encouraging the crowd to try and wake up the Toaster’s most famous occupant, broadcaster Alan Jones.<\/p>\n

The state government also lifted the maximum capacity for major events in the forecourt from 6000 to 7000 people.<\/p>\n

Event hours were also lifted across all days of the week.<\/p>\n

Prominent Australian singer-songwriter Dan Sultan said he found it difficult to sum up how much his own headline shows at the Opera House forecourt meant to him.<\/p>\n

“At that time it was the largest crowd for one of my own concerts, that was the best my band had ever sounded and performed, I was at the best place in my life to date with my wife and children in the wings and I was singing and performing better than I’d ever done up to that point,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It is truly a bucket list show for any artist anywhere in the world.”<\/p>\n

Other tweaks include letting community facilities like town halls host pop-up events without development applications, and letting commercial buildings and car parks more easily run live music events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gigs at one of Australia’s most famous landmarks are set to get louder. Along with lifting capacity limits,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,349090,349089,44,8148,349088,298435],"class_list":["post-720084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-famous-landmarks","tag-forecourt","tag-news","tag-sydney-opera-house","tag-the-toaster","tag-toaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720084","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=720084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}