Independent music organisation Lazy Thinking has announced that it will shut its doors this month after being evicted from its Dulwich Hill home by the venue’s landlord. It will host its last gig on 29 August.

Lazy Thinking. Photo courtesy of Lazy Thinking

Run by founder Jim Flanagan, Lazy Thinking is an intimate space with a unique presence in the Australian musical landscape. Operating as a non-for-profit organisation, Lazy Thinking runs on an artist-first ethos – no venue hire fees regardless of ticket sales and no turning away audience members due to lack of ticket funds.

“The venue loses money every month it’s open. That’s never changed. We keep the doors open via a handful of extraordinary donors, the occasional government grant, one-off donations and, increasingly, our members. Every month we’re open means another month of fundraising to cover those losses,” wrote a Lazy Thinking spokesperson in an Instagram post.

“Three years of doing that is pretty tiring, has taken a toll, and we’d rather spend the next four months building something than subsidising a building we already know we’re going to lose. So it goes.”

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