Come to the Espy while we've still got an Espy. Even go on the nights when we're not playing. Words going around that the ESPY will be closing its doors for good at the end of July. This will be a sad day for Melbourne. The Continental has closed. We're told the Punters Club might be turned into a Country Road outlet. Melbourne's turning into Sydney. Get out there people. Support live music and live music venues.
The Closure of the Espy one can understand; St Kilda has become thoroughly yuppified, and a grungy rock'n'roll venue (especially one that keeps someone as disreputable as Fred Negro off the dole queues) is as out of place there as it would be in South Yarra at the Trak shopping centre. Apart from wasting perfectly good views of the bay on such downmarket clientele, it probably brings property values down, and we can't have that. On the other hand, I did hear that some locals were about to buy the Espy and keep it running (then again, they may be out to turn it into a more upmarket venue of some sort). In any case, something like the Espy in a prime St Kilda location is an anomaly.
You'd think the Punters would be a bit safer though.
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