Notices tagged with sydney
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I remember being a part of Rent-a-Crowd. It was never very much of a crowd. We organised a protest against the introduction of the #GST and maybe a couple of thousand people turned up. A week later there was a protest about the South #Sydney rugby club being relegated from the league, and the city came to a standstill. 20 years later, there's talk about increasing the rate of…
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After nearly twenty years, so much of the #Sydney CBD looks the way I remember it, and I suppose more or less the way it's been since before the war, that it breaks my heart not be able to be there whenever I feel like it. Suburbia is ephemeral. Sandstone, slate, and marble are for the ages, pending continual restoration works. Ah, scaffolding, plywood plastered with union lo…
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#Sydney Airport main concourse on a Friday late afternoon. (from Bill Mitchell - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=44656) #covid19 https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/35331
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The jazz band @tregeagle and I saw in #Sydney a month or two ago, in the East Sydney Hotel in Woolloomoloo. I think the trombone player was different. Jack would know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3c6OJ8SsU
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Feck me. "Due to a mechanical issue" my train to #Sydney "will be replaced by a road coach service for the entire journey". You can't get a drink on a fecking bus!!! This is blatant discrimination against the sobriety-averse community!
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@tregeagle I love a bit of scaffolding. When I came of age, striped-shirt suspender-wearing yuppies were tearing down lovely old buildings all over #Sydney. Then suddenly the entrepreneurs were all in countries without extradition treaties with #AU, and their holes in the ground surrounded by scaffolding became permanent fixtures. Last I saw the holes were all replaced by App…
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@tregeagle That #NME interview is a classic. I read it in print after the standard fortnight delay getting it via air-freight in the #Sydney record shops (high-latency connections in those days). https://thequietus.com/articles/09277-mark-e-smith-nick-cave-shane-macgowan-nme-interview
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I was the same with the #Pogues at the Hordern Pavillion in #Sydney 2012. The Broad Majestic Shannon always gets me for some reason. And I weep buckets every time I watch the 30th anniversary DVD recorded about a month later in some obscure continental town called Paris. But does Shane ever stand me a round in Filthy McNasty's? Granted I'm some way from Islington, but for a f…
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