St Kilda's walks
Culture · St Kilda · Best at Dusk
Bohemian St Kilda
The Crystal Ballroom, Nick Cave, the Birthday Party — post-punk by the sea.
For a few years at the turn of the 1980s, the most interesting room in Australian music was the Crystal Ballroom at the Seaview Hotel. Nick Cave and the Boys Next Door becoming the Birthday Party. The Go-Betweens up from Brisbane. Hunters & Collectors. Rowland S. Howard wandering Fitzroy Street. A walk through the rooms, the residences and the wreckage of St Kilda's loudest decade.
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75
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30 min2.3 hr
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