Seeing Nanny's handwriting was a shock. It transported me back to letters she wrote to us as kids and later, shopping lists she'd meticulously make before Mum (and later I) would drive her to the Cannon Hill shops in Brisbane.
As part of our tour of egg tart shops we passed Hoixe and saw the tarts in the window. They were not on a warmer like the better ones all were so that they tasted oven fresh. These had a watery custard filling and not the richness of the others we tried. The other cakes...
Masterpiece Cakeshop is one of the furthest out wedding cake shops from the center of the City of Lakewood. This means they had to ignore 21 other shops spreading out from downtown at the time driving through Lakewood to just “romantically” pop in personally and order their wedding cake...
Dumb Things: the Brisbane band has a new video/song out now and I will tell you that it is worth checking it out. “Crash Barrier” is a pretty pretty song, with light and luminous guitars and female vocals. I had in the past recommended this band and I’m very happy to see they ...
In Lifestyle, Scouting, VintageComments Off on Sunday Social: A vintage gem at Winn Lane Can you keep a secret? Sunday, 30 August 2015 Can you keep a secret? Well, I can’t. One of my favourite vintage shops in Brisbane, Can You Keep A Secret, is moving and [...] Read the wh...
Record shops though, having gone through a similar decline to the point where there were only a handful of very specialist ones left in London are now going through something of a renaissance thanks largely to the revival of vinyl amongst the younger generations. There is still a thriving music...
Peter Loveday: I got this Youtube link the other day and really enjoyed it. It is one of the songs that Peter (with Naomi Wedman and Sarah Davison) played in Barcelona last March. This song is “Sunshine on Stone”. Peter Loveday was once in the fantastic Brisbane band Tiny Town. ...
Best record shops were in Camden, I forget the names now, and Hanway Place off Oxford Street, there was a great shop called Rocks Off where Shane MacGowan used to work. ++ How did you all meet? How was the recruiting process? I knew Matt from Oxford, I had been in a group with ...
It is no secret I’m a big fan of Brisbane band Major Leagues, I’ve championed them for years now and how I wish I had worked with any of the many cool bands that appeared in Brisbane 3, 4, years go. For a reason or another that didn’t work out, but I have been a fan ...
Walkinstown is a pretty quiet suburb. In Dublin there were two alternative record shops at the time, Freebird and the Sound Cellar. Venues were scarce, the main place was ‘The Underground’ which was an Alt Mecca. Stepping up, there was ‘McGonagles’ which sporadically featured bands and...