Some Genius Started A ‘Keep Sydney Closed’ Facebook Page, And It’s Brilliant

Keep Sydney Open has become one of the most influential activist groups working to overthrow the New South Wales Government’s controversial lockout laws, but now it seems they have some competition.

A parody page called Keep Sydney Closed has emerged on Facebook this month, and no, it wasn’t created by NSW Premier Mike Baird.

Keep Sydney Closed is providing Keep Sydney Open with some opposition by yanking their logo and publishing tongue-in-cheek posts like “peaceful in the streets sleepy in the sheets”, while also musing on what television shows they’re considering watching on their Friday and Saturday nights.

The parody account appears to be run by a group of serial lol-sters who have decided this might be the best way to show how ridiculous the lockout laws are, and it’s pretty hilarious. Here are just a few of our favourite posts:

The organisers of Keep Sydney Open page have already been interviewed by Australian satirical news website The Betoota Advocate, in which they explain exactly why they started their organisation.

“The only live music in Sydney, historically, is pinga music,” they say, in response to people saying the laws are destroying our live music industry.

“The kind of monotonous crap that degenerates love to get high to. Come talk to me when Sydney produces a Powerderfinger or Tame Impala.”

Keep Sydney Closed organisers have further fired shots at Keep Sydney Open organisers by saying that they “were on the wrong side of the HSC bell curve and now they’re on the wrong side of the culture one”.

If you really want to get on board with the Keep Sydney Closed movement, they’re supposedly holding a Keep Sydney Closed rally at the notorious Pie Face at Taylor’s Square on Oxford Street tomorrow night. It will start at the very sensible time of 9pm, and we imagine you’ll be able to get home and into bed well before midnight.

It’ll probably look a little something like this, we imagine:

Casino Mike will be thrilled.

Meanwhile, Keep Sydney Open will hold its next rally on Sunday, 9th October.

Gallery: The Funniest Anti-Lockout Banners From The ‘Keep Sydney Open’ Rally (21.02.16)

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