The Apartments
The Apartments, an Australian indie band created in 1978 in Brisbane by Peter Milton Walsh. Based in Sydney, Australia, the band has continued to play, mostly in France, and has recorded eight albums, with the most recent release in 2015. With Peter Milton Walsh as singer-songwriter, The Apartments continue as a core group of players from the UK, Australia and France for recording and touring.
History
The band's name derives from Billy Wilder's 1960 film The Apartment. The Apartments have had a strong following in Europe since being based in London in the mid-1980s. Since returning to live in Australia in the late 1980s Walsh has continued to tour The Apartments in France and occasionally in Australia.
Early Apartments and Brisbane Connections (1978-1980)
The Apartments first came together in Brisbane in 1978 with Walsh (guitar, vocals), Michael O'Connell (guitar, vocals), Peter Whitby (bass, vocals) and Peter Martin (drums). The Apartments played regularly during a period of flourishing creative activity in Brisbane in the late 70s
The 800 Apartments
800 Tower City Apartments, formerly The 800 Apartments, is a skyscraper just south of Downtown, Louisville, Kentucky, and an example of modern architecture. The building is named after its address of 800 South Fourth Street. The 29-story, 290-foot (88 m) high structure was designed by the Louisville architectural firm of Arrasmith and Tyler in a partnership with the Chicago architectural firm of Loewenberg and Loewenberg. Construction began in 1961 and the building was completed in 1963 at a cost of $6 million. It was built by F. W. "Fritz" Drybrough, who lived in the penthouse for years.. The architect was Louisville architect, W. S. Arrasmith.
The building, which has a continuous-pour reinforced concrete frame, has an aluminum curtain-wall system on its exterior with the color of the aluminum panels being a distinctive turquoise blue. As a result, local residents sometimes refer to it as "The Turquoise Tower of Power", a nickname used by disc jockeys who used to broadcast from the building in the 1980s.
Podcasts:
The Apartments
ALBUMS
- Apart released: 2000
- Fête Foraine released: 1996
- A Life Full of Farewells released: 1995
- The Evening Visits... And Stays for Years released: 1994
- Drift released: 1992
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by Greg MacPherson
The Apartments
by: Greg MacPherson7 stories down from where she lives
Below the floor and past the voice
That says that things are his
Through carpets, talking, paint layered on the walls
And eyes that roll like dice
When she walks past them in the hall
Outside her window
The sun spins with the red of summertime
And time moves so slow when she's stuck inside
There was a night last week
She saw stars from her room
Over the building next door
With the hydro line tower on the roof
She thought about airplanes
And satellites orbiting low
While aspirins and drawn curtains
Avoid the urge to go away
From where the old couple out across the street
Dancing like actors in their open windows
For all the world to see
Shuffling like papers for all the world to read
"can't you see my dear?
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