Last month I recorded a couple of pilot episodes of a new podcast series where I walk around Melbourne with one of the City of Melbourne’s “greeters”, Jill. This is a project cooked up between myself, Tourism Victoria and the City of Melbourne. We’ve recorded two pilots and I’d really appreciate it if a few of you in Melbourne would grab these and do the walk while you listen to the podcast and then give me feedback on how well it works.
The way I’ve edited it, I have deliberately left in the “walk time” between locations and just filled it with some jazz. I’m hoping this prevents people from having to constantly pause the recording. However, if this doesn’t work, let me know.
The two tours are as follows:
Politics, Prostitutes and Poverty
This tour starts at Parliament House on the corner of Spring Street and Collins Street and takes about 80 minutes. You can obviously rest as often as you like by pausing the show and starting it again when you are ready. This tour takes us through the seedy history of Melbourne’s prostitution dens and criminal districts from the 19th century.
The second tour, “Lingering in Laneways”, starts at Federation Square and also takes about 90 minutes. This tour takes us through some of the laneways of Melbourne that you probably won’t read about in a tourist brochure. Discover hidden bars, shops, restaurants and other Melbourne delights you never knew existed.
This episode of Melbourne Confidential was produced without any help at all from our good friends at Visit Melbourne. If they were half smart, don’t you think they’d be sponsoring us or something?
In this episode I am joined by Van from The Geeks of Hazzard as we sit down with one of the top stencillers in the world, the one and only Mr Logan Hicks from Baltimore, now based out of LA, to watch him work and chat about how he does the magic and why Melbourne is the mecca of stencilling.
Download the iPod version. - 145mb
In this episode of Melbourne Confidential, we tag along to the opening of the third annual Melbourne Stencil Festival and interview some of the guests, artists and organisers. Did you know that Melbourne is the world mecca for stencil art? Watch this show and you’ll understand why. Coming soon - part two, where we talk to more of the artists and watch them weave their magic.
