Well f*@k me if we didn’t think it was acceptable for a performer to let loose with a couple of swear words when they’re in the moment onstage, but it appears Townsville City Council don’t agree. They’ve opened fire on local live act The Potbelleez for letting loose with a series of expletives at a concert staged in July this year, around the city’s first Dunlop Townsville 400 auto race.

“Are you f@&king ready?”, those bastions of controversy The Potbelleez are reported to have screamed, and the Townsville Council didn’t like it one bit. Now, nearly four months down the track, they’ve seen fit to dig up the issue and call for a ban on profanities at concerts staged in public venues.

“There are people living in houses near where those events are being held at the moment in Reid Park who are old, have social standards that are different to the people who are doing this swearing, people who are highly religious and trying to bring their children up to those religious standards,” said Vern Veitch from the council, insisting there should be heavy fines for the breach of these conditions. Townsville will clearly never be the same. Throw the book at them, right?!

Local rag the Townsville Bulletin were similarly outraged by the shocking display of foul language, reveling in the fact the group won’t be invited back for any of the festivities surrounding next year’s Dunlop Townsville 400 race (we’re sure that Johnny Sonic and co are sobbing into their CD wallet over that one). “V8 bosses have also indicated that the foul-mouthed Potbelleez won’t be back for the family concert,” the paper’s editorial gloated. “We don’t need the Partridge Family, but they were out of control.”

What do you think? Should the Potbelleez be hung, drawn and quartered for their transgressions, or do those old bitties at the Townsville Council just need to just shut the f@&k up already and stop complaining? Let us know in the comments below.