About bloody time. After years of avoiding this plague-ridden city, there’s a good enough reason to risk my life by leaving my eight-person sharehouse - I can finally have a valet park my bicycle when I’m having caviar bumps and reminiscing over the Melbourne Star in Docklands, or as I like to call it, Vue du Docks. While I’m out, I’ll no doubt be distracted by the alluring gaze of our September cover star, Marlon Williams, the most romantic offering from across the ditch since Fred Dagg. Also within; Isabella Manfredi revels in her emancipation from The Preatures (“no shit - I wrote the songs”) and we talk to renowned dancer Rodney Bell, one of the leading lights of Alter State, a powerful disability-led festival coming to Melbourne throughout September. We also chat to Melbourne noise rockers CLAMM and pop-experimentalist TAMS/N OTWAY, go loco for Italo-Disco, imitate art with the very real Come From Away, and embrace more Cash Savagery than a $2 7-Eleven coffee.
