The organisers of a music festival in northern NSW commenced legal action in the Land and Environment court on Friday, after police pulled their consent for the event partly in response to deaths at music festival Defqon.1 earlier this year.

Bohemian Beatfreaks is scheduled to be held on Friday, November 23 to Sunday, November 26, and tickets were still on sale last night via the event’s website.

Rabbits Eat Lettuce, the organisers behind Bohemian Beatfreaks, was granted a five-year development consent to host two camping festivals each year from Richmond Valley Council in 2015, but a clause in the approval has allowed NSW Police to stop the event by advising it is unsafe.

A reveller poses with NSW Police officers at a previous iteration of Bohemian Beatfreaks.

Director of Rabbits Eat Lettuce, Erik Lamir-Pike, said the event, to be held 50 kilometres south-west of Casino on private property, is being unfairly targeted as a response to drug overdose deaths at the Defqon.1 music festival in September.