Play Loud

It’s 1979 in Carlton and you can almost feel the sticky carpet! The small inner-city venues of 1970s Melbourne gave rise to a distinctive musical culture, exemplified in this filmed performance of Melbourne band ’Cuban Heels’. The distinctive Australian ’pub rock’ sound was born in the hotels and bars of our major cities in the 1970s. In the Melbourne scene, the ’beer barns’ of the suburbs were complemented by smaller, more intimate venues in the city and inner suburbs of Carlton, Richmond, Fitzroy and St