The day the music died: Darwin council bans buskers from city mall

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The day the music died: Darwin council bans buskers from city mall
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The world's best musos started busking in this town but soon it will be banned.

"Every two hours you're supposed to move 250 metres. They stay there all day," he said of the itinerants."You've got people 24/7 banging thongs and coke bottles."

He said an antisocial crowd would slowly gather around a legitimate, talented busker, take the busker's money, buy alcohol and synthetic drugs, and then return to the mall. "The busker was good, but by 5.30pm there'd be 20 to 30 stoned and drunk itinerants all over the place carrying on like pork chops," he said.

"I call the police every day. Why do I need to put up with that? You can be drunk and a busker and not get moved on."If you raise your voice in Gateway, Coolalinga, Casuarina [shopping centres] or the waterfront, you'd get booted out. Why can you get away with it in the mall?Bureaucratic bungle

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