Win The Latest Bakelite Broadcasters CD ‘Doin The Charleston’!!!

Spread The Word And Win The Latest Bakelite Broadcasters CD ‘Doin The Charleston’!!!

(Hear it in on Bandcamp)

To go into the draw:

1. Add the flyer below for the 23 May Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters Django Bar show onto your Facebook page
2. Invite your friends to come along
3. Put your name on the 23 May Django Bar events page
4. Be at the Greg Poppleton show for the draw in the Django Bar of the Camelot Lounge, 23 May at 10pm to WIN!!!

Put this flyer onto your Facebook page and be at the 23 May Django Bar show to win the new CD by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

Good Luck! And see you at the Django Bar for Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters 1920s Speakeasy Trio

Django Bar in the Camelot Lounge | 8pm Thursday 23 May | cnr Marrickville Rd and Railway Pde Marrickville | Opp. Sydenham Train Station | $10 door sales only

Phantom Dancer Show Tues 6 Nov, Sat 10 Nov, LIVE NEWTOWN 11 NOV

Hello Phantom Dancers,

I’ll be singing with my 1920s and 1930s band The Bakelite Broadcasters, tomorrow, Tuesday 6 November. We’ll be entertaining at Rocksalt Bar & Grill, 1 Marine Parade, Wollongong, for the Melbourne Cup, from 1 – 5pm. The theme is 1920s, just like our news CD, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’. Click the link to check out the songs

That means tomorrow’s Phantom Dancer show, Tuesday 6 November, 2SER 107.3 12 noon (repeated Saturday 10 Nov, 6pm AEST, +11 GMT) will be a ‘classic’ show (from 8 November 2011). I hope you enjoy it. It’s full of great swing & jazz from live 1920s – 60s radio and TV

Next Sunday, 11 November, The Phantom Dancer will be LIVE at the 2012 Newtown Festival in the 2SER Chillax Area, 3 – 3:45pm. Do come down to Camperdown Memorial Park to enjoy the live 1920s – 1960s radio & TV swing & jazz tunes, and the huge festival

Phantom Dancer Swing DJ Set in the 2SER Chillax Area, Newtown Festival 2012, Camperdown Memorial Park, Newtown, 3 – 3:45pm. Gold coin donation to enter festival grounds

And next Friday, 9 November, 8 – 11pm, I’ll be singing with Sydney’s newest 1920s Great Gatsby Dance Orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios, at the Sydney Jazz Club Annual Ball, City Of Sydney RSL, 565 George St, City. Tickets include complimentary bubbly on arrival and a two course dinner

The Lounge Bar Lotharios, Sydney’s newest 1920s Great Gatsby Dance Orchestra – Sydney Jazz Club Annual Ball, 8pm, City Of Sydney RSL. Buy tickets through the Sydney Jazz Club

Eventhough, this Tuesday and Saturday’s Phantom Dancer will be an edited repeat, your Video of the Week, is another new vintage discovery found by trawling YouTube for you. Avalon Time Halloween Party 1939 starring Red Skelton and featuring Bob Strong’s Orchestra with vocal group ‘The Three Puffs’ – Avalon were a brand of cancer stick – puffs – get it? Enjoy, Greg!

Phantom Dancer @ FIVE Eliza Tonight, Sun 23 Sep

Bring your dancing shoes for a trip back in time with 2ser’s Phantom Dancer, as Greg Poppleton soundtracks an evening of swing, jazz & dance from live 1920s-60s Radio & TV.

We’re getting dressed up for this event! Bring your classy gear to Five Eliza street Newtown for a night of authentic early swing & jazz.

Presented by 2ser’s Phantom Dancer and The Sydney Fringe Festival

FREE

Doors open 5pm

Phantom Dancer: 6 – 10pm!

Phantom Dancer Tonight at FIVE Eliza (5 Eliza St) Newtown

Phantom Dancer @ FIVE Eliza Sun 23 Sep

See and dance to THE PHANTOM DANCER LIVE at FIVE Eliza, (5 Eliza St, Newtown) Sunday 23 September as part of the SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL. Doors open 5pm

I’ll be DJing your favourite swing & jazz from live 1920s-60s Radio & TV just like on 2SER’s Phantom Dancer Show from 6 – 10pm.

More details and map on the FB Events Page…
https://www.facebook.com/events/521048697921749/

Come to Phantom Dancer Live at FIVE Eliza, Newtown, Sun 23 Sep 12

Rainbow Over Newtown, Sydney, Australia

The brightest rainbow I have ever seen. It went from horizon to horizon and is still in the sky after 15 minutes as I write, Sunday afternoon, 20 May 2012

These photos from a small 10MP Kodak don’t do justice to the magnificence of this phenomenon. I was so glad to witness it and I wasn’t the only one out in the street taking snaps. Enjoy!

1911 King St Newtown Garage Sign Completely Vandalised

That valuable piece of our industrial history has now been finally destroyed. The 1911 garage sign with ads for early Australian icons such as Perdriau Tyres, Waratah Motor Spirit and Cars For Rent (in 1911!!!!) is now completely gone. If you don’t know what sign I’m talking about, here’s the link to the original story

This morning I was walking up King Street when I noticed one end of the chain mesh fence that closed off the vintage garage sign from King Street had been pushed aside

No fence is going to get in the way when there's paintin' work to be done!

“Hello,” I thought, “What surprise awaits me?”

A blank grey wall – with – wait for it – some tagger’s scribble. Already! The tagger even “copyrighted” their scribble with a “c” and the date! Got to laugh! Have a look….

Grey Wall - 1911 King St Newtown Garage Mural Destroyed

But the blank grey wall! All the historic 1911 sign is now gone. And here’s another laugh. The painters carefully painted around a metal strip! Derrrrr! The metal strip seems to have been put in to stabilise the top fascia on the adjoining fire-damaged shopfront

Careful! Paint over our history, but careful with the metal strip!?!

The vacant lot is up for sale. The sale sign went up a few days ago

For Sale Sign

Now I’m just reporting the facts as we can all plainly see them in the photos. I have no idea who, when, how, why, what? I will not speculate. I do not accuse

Here’s one last photo. After the last bit of graffiti went up that wiped out the bottom half of our history contained in the 1911 sign, someone leant a chipboard sign up against the vandalised wall. The sign read “Marsh. Dumb ass”. The grey painters have blotted out the name, Marsh

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Fortunately, due to this blog, the sign has been measured and will be reproduced full size in the Motor Life Museum, Albion Park. Here’s the story. But could it have been the interest stirred up by this blog that lead person or persons unknown to destroy our valuable first hand history before the land was put up for sale? 101 years old and now out