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The Gershwin Room at The Espy opens for St Kilda Art Crawl

After two years of hybination the owners of The Esplanade Hotel felt it worthwhile to open the doors of their much loved Gershwin Room in support of the inaugural St Kilda Art Crawl.

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Dave O’Neil, CJ Fortuna, Andy Goodone, Brad Oakes at Espy © pationpics.com

People gathered from all over the city to be part of this auspicious weekend celebration which included  photographic memorabilia from the ’80’s, rock’n’roll and an afternoon of comedy by the St Kilda Comedy Club.

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X at the Espy!!!!

Steve Lucas from X performing at the Espy on Sat 23 to bring in the Spring Equinox. magical time, magical performance image by Kerrie Pacholli © pationpics.com
Steve Lucas from X performing at the Espy on Sat 23 to bring in the Spring Equinox. magical time, magical performance image by Kerrie Pacholli © pationpics.com

Throughout this St Kilda Art Crawl I’ve been high tailing it all over the place.  But what an extra special performance that I managed to immortalise in X. Only at the Espy, espy, espy…more to come when we edit the vid!

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Kim Volkman from X giving it to me. image by Kerrie Pacholli © pationpics.com

St Kilda Comedy Club at the Espy 24 Sept 2pm

ITS HERE!!! Yes you read it right at the The Esplanade Hotel part of StKildaArtCrawl.com

Sunday 24th Sept 2pm

CJ Fortuna, Andy Goodone, Brad Oakes & Dave O’Neil at Espy image by Kerrie Pacholli © pationpics.com

The line up includes:

MC Brad Oakes, Pommy Johnson, Dave O’Neil, Bob Franklin, Elliot Goblet, Chris Wainhouse, Christine Basil, C J Fortuna, Wayne Deakin, Michael Shafar. Supported by Mark Hughes and the Temple of Blues PLUS MORE

Book Now @ www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=317727

Remember back in the day when the Espy hotel was in full swing? Back when stand up comedy ruled the Gershwin room every Sunday afternoon?

A glorious mix of new and seasoned comics would strut their stuff in front of a packed enthusiastic crowd.

Back in the day when Hughesy was on the dole, Rove was in a double act with his old mate Duff and Pommy Johnson’s song Psycho Chicken could be heard bellowing through the sacred hall to an eruption of applause; the punters getting drunk off laughter alone.

Those were the days. It was a comedy show with a rock’n’roll vibe. Espy comedy was the best thing in town.

Imagine if ‘back in the day’ was back tomorrow or more specifically back on Sunday the 24th of September at 2pm.
That’s right the Hotel along with the St Kilda Arts Crawl and St Kilda Comedy Club are opening the doors to the Gershwin room.

For a one off special event bringing back the glory days of comedy in Melbourne.

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CJ Fortuna, Andy Goodwin, Dave O’Neil & Brad Oakes at the Espy image by Kerrie Pacholli © pationpics.com