Following January’s announcement Paddy Coughlan’s Bourke St Group had purchased the Murphy’s Botany View Hotel, last weekend the pub celebrated its new look, with a double-dose of rock and party. The Murphys owned the Botany View Hotel (BVH) for 26 years, and the pub was a stalwart of the live music scene. Coughlan’s Bourke St […]
Popular Melbourne pub the Oxford Scholar will soon close for good, suffering devastating loss of business while the city builds a tunnel under the building. As reported in May, the Oxford Scholar on Swanston St, located in and owned by RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), has been operated since 1991 by publican Malcolm Wulf.
Victoria’s PubCo is a step closer to its reinvigorated Railway Club Hotel, with the opening of Chase Nightclub, in the former Terminus Hotel next door. The two pubs sit side-by-side on Station Street, Seymour, around 100 kilometres north of Melbourne, the Railway Club a handsome white art-deco building, the two-storey Victorian Filigree-style Terminus adorned with
Despite last-minute attempts by Port Phillip Council to save it, in the wake of public outcry, St Kilda’s iconic 164-year-old Greyhound Hotel is currently being demolished. Built in 1853, the Hotel has been through a number of transformations, renovated in the 1930s with an Art-Deco façade, later a popular live rock band venue and in
The star-studded St Hotel St Kilda has slipped into liquidation, said to be owing $1.7m to creditors. Landlord to the pub business, Chris Maiotis, who is also a director of the failed entity, reportedly took possession due to unpaid rent, and liquidators Roger Reidy have been appointed, with over a million dollars owed to suppliers
It has been confirmed the team behind Newtown’s Mary’s Burgers will soon reopen the iconic Lansdowne Hotel as a new-look live music venue. The heritage-listed Lansdowne Hotel was one of Sydney’s institutional band pubs, located close to Sydney University and presenting a plethora of Australian and international rock acts over many years. The classic sticky-carpet
Proving all good things must come to an end, the Short’s party pub Scubar will soon close its doors. Located in Rawson Place, a stone’s throw from Central Station and Chinatown, Scubar began as a project between the late Warwick Short and son Martin, as hospitality partners. Furthering the family connection, Martin’s sister Paris ignited
Looking to the future, long-standing Sydney local the Flinders Hotel has reopened to a new environment in a new year. Located on Flinders Street, close to gay-central Taylor Square and just inside the wet-blanket lockout zone, the Flinders has had a long history as a somewhat sordid late-trader, typically haunted by Oxford Street flotsam and
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By Chris Kirby-Ryan Residents of Bendigo are crying into their beer, wine and fancy cocktails with the closing of the Black Swan. One of Bendigo’s most popular night haunts over the last 17 years, the Black Swan is one of only three venues granted a 5am licence in Bendigo. Co-owner Alicia Bazzani said it was
Four years after saving it from oblivion, the operators have announced the impending closure of the live music pub known as the Newtown Social Club. The beloved Sandringham was home-away-from-home for a procession of established and up-and-coming bands for over two decades, the last seven under the guidance of former music promoter and agent, Tony
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