tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post7981954209527170654..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: The wee small hoursMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-40971901310069959162008-02-19T05:56:00.000+10:002008-02-19T05:56:00.000+10:00A well-known muso had a great proposal for a live ...A well-known muso had a great proposal for a live music venue at the Pier. It was knocked back by the Sydney-based Pier Marketplace management, who instead decided to put in "Cairns' largest and most luxurious Health Club". <BR/><BR/>The health club lasted less than six months before the owners bailed. Undaunted, the Pier management is putting another Health Club in its place.<BR/><BR/>The Pier is the ideal location for a live music venue. Too bad inexperienced blockheads have mostly destroyed what used to be a great place to visit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-27892915668994193212008-02-19T00:05:00.000+10:002008-02-19T00:05:00.000+10:00Last Yrs stats indicate numbers are down but visit...Last Yrs stats indicate numbers are down but visitor nights are up.... so less visitors are coming but staying (or hiding in motels?) longer....right....<BR/>So what happens if THOSE tourists decide to shorter as well because there's "not much to do at night"?<BR/><BR/>Also, just got the hard word on getting entertainment license by a new venue: "Because Cairns has no designated Entertainment precinct, owners like myself that want to host live music have to make timely and costly applications for variations to their current liquour license. It seems I need 2 variations made, which require the services of a qualified sound engineer to come out, do an inspection, test the proposed sound and it's impact on our nearest neighbours. This costs $1500 per report! This $3000 will enable me to play music at a level over & above 75db! "<BR/><BR/>With no guarentee of getting the license!!! No wonder venues don't even try and put plasma screens up instead.<BR/><BR/>PALM, with some community backing can put pressure on Government to change things. Especially if the tourism industry doesn't hid behind rubbery figures and actually talk to people!! Tourists are telling us: "Your lovely town is a big yawn"..... We can do better.<BR/><BR/>Ray<BR/>on behalf of PALMAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808007230114384250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-82161506962851331472008-02-18T19:35:00.000+10:002008-02-18T19:35:00.000+10:00One thing that I have noticed on my treks into tow...One thing that I have noticed on my treks into town of a night time is that a lot of the restraunts in town arent as full as they used to be. I know we have just recovered from christmas and new year, and the kids had to go back to school, but, there seems to be an awefull lot of seats empty in the restraunts of late. Maybe this is another of the flow on affects of all the clubs closing down too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-39036149883503250872008-02-18T13:47:00.000+10:002008-02-18T13:47:00.000+10:00Interesting to note that tourist numbers are down ...Interesting to note that tourist numbers are down this summer, since all these venues closed. Reef and rainforest simply is not enough to attract tourists to a town that turns into a dead hole at night. Reef and rainforest can be seen at any number of other places in Asia, the Pacific, Queensland, PNG, etc, and many of those places have everything we have, plus an interesting culture, good food and an active night life.<BR/>Our music industry, nightlife and tourism industry are being killed off for the sake of the absentee unit-owner/investors doing the classic thing and buying into the CBD and immediately wanting to turn it into the kind of dead suburb they crawled out of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com