In Part 2, our guest writer swaps the postcard for the setlist, steering the mental tour bus past Sydney’s great rock rooms. He recalls the backstage grandeur of the Hordern Pavilion, the tardis-like crush of Selinas, and the mythical Bondi Lifesaver he was too young to see, before pulling up at the venue that wins his heart every time: the Metro Theatre, and why it might just be the best rock room in the country.
When he isn’t fronting a band, our guest writer sees Sydney the way most touring musicians do: through the window of a charter bus, on the same handful of roads to the same rock venues. In Part 1, he trades the postcard view for a wry, jaundiced one, doffing his hat to the history-soaked Annandale Hotel, mourning the slow squeeze on inner-city live music, and urging you to hit Parramatta Road while the ghosts are still there.
The Bledisloe Cup is Australia’s most anticipated Rugby Union fixture, the Wallabies against the All Blacks, and the Wallaroos against the Black Ferns in the Laurie O’Reilly Cup, contested every year in one of the great Trans-Tasman rivalries in world sport. Sydney Charter Bus Australia provides private bus and coach hire for Bledisloe Cup Test matches in Sydney at Allianz Stadium and Accor Stadium. Book early, rugby bus hire fills fast and Sydney Olympic Park bus parking is first-come, first-served.
Sydney Charter Bus Australia acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate and travel. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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