It's happening everywhere.
In Brisbane there is some great live band venues in Fortitude Valley, a suburb right next to the city. It was always considered a more 'alternative' night out than hitting the clubs in the city itself and was more low key. In some parts it was/is quite seedy with Lady's of the Night roaming and trying to support their habits, you know the type of place I mean.
I saw The Living End in the Roxy there. Great venu (I think -
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About 4.5 years ago the property boom made it to Brisbane and all these rich people started moving into the Valley because of it's proximity to the city and it started becoming very trendy. Town house blocks went up and the old warehouses lining the river started turning into very trendy inner city living developments and cafe's went up everywhere. Right after this all the complaints started coming in about the noise from live music and they were all trying to have them banned. It would have really destroyed the character of The Valley. There was a march through the mall and petitions to keep The Roxy open - I left to come here before it was resolved but it would be a sad day if it was closed due to all the yuppies moving in.
So it's not exclusive to motorsport, or the UK even.
It gets under my skin a little bit ...