Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  St Kilda in the 1990s (by Malachi Doyle) Dear Brother,   I’ve been thinking a lot about St Kilda in the 1990s, when we were in our 20s and discovering the world outside of our boys-school-raised-leafy-bayside-suburban-world of our adolescence. Anyway, to a kid like me, it was totally EYE bloody marvelously OPENING! We were lucky that our man Terry McCarthy was living in a share house in Park Street, St Kilda just off Fitzroy Street, right near the Prince of Wales backbar I loved so much, which was of course, now that I think of it, opposite that boarding house which the BLUNT! or whatever, fucked up & pimped out like the ladies it used but never recognized from their corporatised day jobs. This corporate world would of course change St Kilda dramatically for the worse, but we’ll get to that. Or not, just saying that Kaiser Jeff bulldozed the soul of St Kilda to let the nazis in for the sake of their casino & grand prix. He as you reminded me, “CLEANED UP” the plac

"Woodcutter Cut out my shadow Free me from the torture of seeing myself fruitless"                                                                                                   - Federico Garcia Lorca What is Art Shall Be Free Recordings? Art Shall Be Free Recordings is a not for profit collaborative working to raise awareness of the work of underrepresented artists - usually for reasons that they challenge the mediums they work in. They are artists who are solely about the art and a love of humanity told through their communities. What we do is help them get their music to a wider audience. However, everything we do is based on a principle of community versus the usual thing of throwing money & power behind the project. If you are in art to make money, then ASBF is not for you. We are about establishing genuine connections between people who wish to share authentic art and sound, not shifting commodities. From Bands to Spoken Word to Conceptual Art to to Podcasts to