We have received such a huge response to our call to action yesterday. Many of our supporters have been contacting the Minister for Immigration and the venues hosting rapper “Tyler the creator.”
One of our Melbourne supporters emailed the Palace Theatre in Melbourne with her concerns yesterday.
Here is the response she received:
On 03/06/2013, at 9:11 PM, jenny@palace.com.au wrote:
Ha this one looks cut and pasted, I reckon this s the same person
using different addresses. Happened last time we had a Woo Tang
member. Funny
Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone
Clearly this email was intended for someone else, but it serves to show the attitude the Palace Theatre has towards the community. Protests about violence against women are just a bit of a joke! The Palace are more concerned about the fact that our supporter “copied and pasted” Tyler’s lyrics, than the safety of women in Melbourne.
In another email, the Palace defended its decision to host the event by saying it wasn’t the Palace Theatre who brought Tyler to the country, it was a “well regarded touring promoter”:
From: jenny@palace.com.au
Date: 4 June 2013 3:29:25 PM AEST
To:
Subject: Re: Tyler the creator
Reply-To: jenny@palace.com.auwe did not bring this act to the country a well regarded touring promoter did. We’ve received 4 or 5 of these and all are virtually identical and look copied. You are within your rights to disapprove by not attending the show.
We can say for certain that the Palace Theatre has received many more than “4 or 5” complaints about Tyler the Creator.
Let the Palace know that there is no excuse for offering a platform to someone glorifying violence against women.
Contact the Palace Theatre here: jenny@palace.com.au
Some have reported that they are now receiving annual leave notices from this email address. If this happens, email:
Greg Young – venue bookings gyoung@palace.com.au
Melodye melodye@palace.com.au
Write on their Facebook page here.
Tweet them here.
Tweet the Herald Sun here.
Thanks so much for your action on this. You are making a difference!
Melinda Tankard Reist wrote about Tyler the Creator for the Herald Sun. You can view the article on her website here.
Dubbed Tyler, the Creator, he was due to hold his first show last night in Perth before performing at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney tomorrow, the Palace Theatre in Melbourne on Friday and in Brisbane on Saturday.
The Earlwolf event, which also includes Earl Sweatshirt is for adults only in Perth and Melbourne, but the Eatons Hill venue north Brisbane allows children.
He was granted a visa for performers, drawing calls from an Opposition MP for Prime Minister Julia Gillard to cancel his right to work in Australia. Read more
One Response
This misogynist hate-speaker is exactly what Australia does not need. Thank you Melinda and team for your action against this scum trying to infiltrate our society – a society that supposedly says ‘no’ to violence against women.