Category: St Kilda Writers Week

Feb 01
The Devil Won’t Take Charity Kim Volkman

  Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kim Volkman has been part of Melbourne’s live music scene for 38 years playing in bands including The Severals, Ian Rilen & the Love Addicts, X, The Patron Saints and Kim Volkman and The Whiskey Priests. His autobiography The Devil Won’t Take Charity was launched at Robarta, St Kilda on […]

Sep 08
THE ST. KILDA OF MY YOUTH

Growing up in Fawkner Street, St. Kilda, was an adventure, as I have written of in the past. My earliest recollections were of the Barkly Hotel on our street corner. In those days a rough and tumble pub, not helped by the archaic 6pm closing times of the day. That meant that all pubs had […]