[ Content | Sidebar ]

Posts tagged hopetoun hotel

A Sydney institution is in strife

How terribly sad it is that the very venue I mentioned in my last post about the early days of the band Wolfmother is now closed, indefinitely. If the Hopetoun Hotel’s doors were to remain so it would be a very sad day for Sydney’s, indeed Australia’s, musical community.

Some great Australian and international bands have graced her small but perfectly formed [...]

Before the world there was the Hoey

I wandered up to the Enmore Theatre last Saturday to shoot Wolfmother, which got me thinking about the first time I saw them.
Back in May 2004 I got a call from a friend asking if I wanted to check out another friend’s brother’s new band with the slightly odd moniker of Wolfmother, who were playing their first gig [...]