TAGG – ISSUE 42 flipbook
Flick through the TAGG issue 42 flipbook including Melbourne’s live music gig guide for 5th to 19th March, 1981!
The TAGG time capsule series
TAGG – ISSUE 42.
In this TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide time capsule series, you can revisit the Melbourne live music scene from 1979-1981.
Each issue featured the all important issue gig guide, reviews, venue locations, interviews and stories. Australia’s original street press was the perfect printed back pocket friend filled with everything a live music lover needed to know each fortnight.
We’re working our way through digitising TAGG’s back catalogue so you can relive (for those who were there) revisit (for those who weren’t and those who don’t recall) the original issues of the magazine on the TAGG website. cool hey!
TAGG – ISSUE 42 – Table of contents:
Includes the all important gig guide for 5th to 19th March, 1981!
Front Section;
- Talking to TAGG team
- TAGG Magg
- Consumer Guide
9. Sounds Like
14. Recording? Why Not?
16. Trade Directory & Classifieds
18. Geelong Rock Notes
21. Geelong Listing
22. Consumer Directory
25. Melbourne Listings
40. Minifold – Swanee
54. Gig – Sunny Boys
57. Venue – Disco Village
60. Disco Listing
61. Acoustic Notes
62. Feature – Ian Paulin
64. Venue – J Barleycorn
65. Feature – Tom Foolery
66. Melbourne / Moomba
70. Obscurities: Seaside Resort
Back Section: *Who’s Recording Where *Current Releases *Concert Dates & tours
We hope you enjoy flipping through TAGG – issue 42!
TAGG – ISSUE 42 excerpt…
Venue – John Barleycorn Hotel by Steve Lane
You’ll find the John Barleycorn Hotel down at the dead end of Johnson Street, Collingwood. Apart from a hamburger shop, and those odious Housing Commission Towers, the flashing lights in front of the Barleycorn are the only suggestion that there is light after dark in the area.
Beyond the lights, and the cash register, is a venue that has been ‘tastefully renovated’. Exposed bricks and beams, colonial style windows…very rustic. Tasteful and comfortable, but quite small (intimate?).
The venue holds about 150 people, and it split into two areas. The first is a kind of anti-room, with a few tables and a small bar. You can’t see the stage from there, (there’s a wall in the way) but you can hear the music quite well. It’s the perfect place to sit, drink, and rave, venturing inside when you feel the need.
Inside the main room is longer and narrower, with the stage at one end and a few tables at the other. The middle ground is the standing or dancing or jumping… whatever you feel like doing. The sound is good and so is the lighting. You can clearly see the stage from any point inside (unless you get stuck behind the roof support), and drinks are easily obtainable from a well service bar. The toilets are conveniently located so there is no struggle on the trip to and fro, (but watch the first step it can be dangerous).
The barleycorn is open six nights a week, with an average door price of $4.00. Drinks are served in glass, the floors are carpeted, and they don’t jam a crowd in with a cattle prod. Tuesday night, with The Stockings is a good rage (free) and there’s great music every other night of the week. A bourbon and dry cost me $1.50 and a pot 80 cents. There are no obvious bounces to Claire at you if they don’t like the way you comb your hair, and the supper is great.
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