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Why Brisvegas totally rocks

16 Sep 05:45am

Filed under: Bigsound Conference, Brisbane, Music, Robert Forster

Great music cities don’t just suddenly emerge, although some have their genesis in rebellion or in the emergence of some artist or event.

Brisbane is known as one of Australia’s great music cities mainly by people who’ve grown up here over the last 40 or so years or the lucky blow-ins who’ve come to love the place.

Robert Forster, now an elegant elder statesman of Brisbane’s music scene, closed the 2010 Bigsound conference last week talking about his early connections with music.

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05:50pm | 07/11/10

Since moving to ‘Bris-Vegas’ I too feel as though I have traded my alternate and very interesting social life for some boganistic drunk-by-numbers existence. Brisbane by all counts has been the worst experience of my life. As on who used to frequent the St Kilda night life, Brisbane has little… Read more »

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