PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN VENUE TO BAN METAL?

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Sydney University's Manning Bar, one of the Australian city's few dedicated live music venues, with a capacity of 1,000, which in the next few months alone will host Meshuggah, Isis, Baroness, Converge, Genghis Tron and Between The Buried And Me, are reported to be seriously reconsidering the type of acts they host. The Sydney Morning Herald said, "The student union has made the bar's entertainment manager redundant and will spend two to three months reviewing the 'style of entertainment we are running', the union chief executive, Paul McJannett, said. While Mr McJannett refused to name the bands that he believed may cause problems, the Herald understands that the union is concerned about recent acts such as the rapper Necro - who raps about topics including murder and devil worship - as well as "fetish" events such as Club Lush."

This follows an earlier ban on all-ages events.

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