Urban Australia and Post-Punk

David Nichols lectures in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on history, culture, community and place. His previous books include Community: Building Modern Australia (co-edited with Hannah Lewi), Trendyville: the Battle for Australia’s Inner Cities (with Renate Howe and Graeme Davison) and Dig: Australian Rock and Pop Music 1960-1985. Sophie Perillo is an interdisciplinary performance artist, musician and writer. She has devised independent and collaborative performance works for Artist Run Initiatives, major galleries and festivals. She has performed in Melbourne bands The Ancients, PSA and Hi God People. Her research and writing is centred in gender theory, performativity and theatricality.

1. Introduction.- 2. Sam Sejavka.- 3. It Was Filmic.- 4. I Was In-Between Two Worlds.- 5. The B-Side of a Single.- 6. In My Mind the World Was Safer.- 7. Let's Go and Get in Some Trub.- 8. Everyone Was Interchangeable.- 9. ‘We’re the Most Fabulous People the World Has Ever Known’.- 10. It Was Never Pistols at Dawn.- 11. Bowie Queue.- 12. Excerpt from Comic Book.- 13. Rock Star in Space.- 14. The Intimacy of Distance: Re/reading Dogs in Space.- 15. ‘Someone’s Been Fucking Using This for Meat Again’: 18 Berry St and Melbourne Share Housing in the 1970s and 1980s.- 16. Berry St Revisited.- 17. The Ears and INXS: Mapping Parallel Universes.- 18. The Strange Life of Shivers and Its Place in Dogs in Space.- 19. The Fucked Room .- 20. Say Clitoris: Queers in Space.- 21. FunHouse.- 22. TikTok.- 23. Lowenstein Interview 2009.