Landmark
Northbridge
Live-music bar in a converted shopfront, launchpad for local bands that went on to global stages.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the William Street Bird in Northbridge, Perth, starts with a licensing muddle in two thousand ten, when the city approved a midnight bar and its own liquor commission tried to shut it by ten. From there it follows the friends who gutted an old shopfront into a hundred-and-fifty-capacity room, the young local acts, Tame Impala among them, who worked out their sound on its tiny stage, and the newer owner who found packed houses do not always pay the bills. Listen for it on William Street, off the Northbridge nightlife strip.
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