Melbourne has an energy, a juju that impacts on the music scene: Adalita
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Getting hit by a beer can or three was a rite of passage when you played certain venues in Geelong in the 1990s. Magic Dirt lead singer and solo artist Adalita Srsen recalls fondly what she describes as a quasi-initiation.
Adalita at the Carringbush Hotel.
Credit:Penny Stephens
Growing up in the seaside city, she loved seeing local punk rock bands. âIt was dangerous being in the room watching them â in a good way, in a decadent, bacchanalian way. Everyone just going off.â
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A Victorian senator has told thousands of Melbourne Invasion Day demonstrators that Australia s Indigenous people need a treaty, not more symbolic gestures.
About 5000 masked protesters marched in Melbourne s CBD on Australia Day, moving in staggered COVID-safe units from Parliament House toward Flinders Street.
They chanted Always was, always will be Aboriginal land and No pride in genocide while holding placards and Aboriginal flags.
Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman elected in September, said Australia needed a treaty to resolve the war that was declared on our people almost 250 years ago .
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The grand civic building in the heart of Melbourne s CBD has played host to royal visits and musical royalty.
On its 150th anniversary, Drive listeners remember Honey Week, epic stagefright, and The Beatles…
The Beatles graced the Town Hall in 1964, and Danielle was there to see it: Meeting my girlfriend on the steps of the Town Hall after we were at the Southern Cross to see the Beatles, we got separated in the crush of the crowds, luckily we agreed to meet at the town hall if we lost each other! Truly the perfect meeting spot.
Anne’s love for music started there: “My first memories of Melbourne Town Hall were Youth Concerts! 6pm till 8. I went to strict girls boarding school.one of our few authorised outings we could do. During interval we’d go over the road to Hillers for their speciality hot chocolate, steeped in marshmallows - very different from boarding school food! Did acquire a love for music because of it!”
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The Organisational Council for Greek National Day is made up of representatives from all of Victoria’s major Greek Organisations and has been busy planning and programming the events to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the 1821 Greek Revolution.
The 25 March 1821 commemoration is of religious and national importance for Hellenism. Greeks around the globe celebrate the Annunciation of Our Lady (Evangelismos) as well as the proclamation of the Modern Hellenic State 200 years ago – a very important milestone.
This Commemoration of the Bicentenary of Modern Greece gives the Greek Australian community of Victoria, the Paroikia, the opportunity to promote, educate and enhance the knowledge and understanding of what happened in 1821 to our third, fourth and subsequent generations of Greek Australians. In this way, we can ensure the significance of the important historical event is not lost.