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Hometown: Paddington, QLD, AU
Label: browndoggy records
Management: Justin Brown
Website: vimeopro.com
Genre: Other
Our Brief History.
The Pineapple Lounge was created by browndog , a film company based in Paddington Brisbane. www.browndog.com.au. Known for hosting the odd party, The Woodford Folk Festival invited them to create a bar at their festival in 2011 which they named 'The Pineapple Lounge'.
It was a stellar success and despite unusual unrelenting rains that year, they had a stellar line-up of bands playing there, as well as making the space a haven for festival goers. Their goal of creating one of the best festival bars ever in Australia was a sweet success. It was so successful in fact, ABC did 3 National 3 hour New Years Eve live broadcasts from there on their first 3 years. A constant flow of their trademark cocktail shampine to the ABC crew, helped them get our message across to the whole of Australia that The Pineapple Lounge has arrived.
The Pineapple Lounge kept the shampine flowing at their FLOOD AID East Coast Tour which happened across 3 States early in 2011 and they raised nearly $10,000 for the Red Cross Major Disaster Relief Appeal.
In September 2012, we were invited to host The Brisbane Writers Festival's After Session Bar on the Brisbane River each evening with shampine, wine and song for 4 evenings over the weekend
The Pineapple Lounge is at its spiritual home at The Woodford Folk Festival again Dec 27 to 1 Jan..
Have a look here at some photos of the Pineapple Lounge in action.
First year at old site:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151595230098943.601061.594298942&type=1&l=4d4d28a111
2014-6 .. on the new block.
https://www.facebook.com/justin.browndog/media_set?set=a.10153439516388943&type=3
& here for a video we made for the festival featuring some Pineapple Lounge dance floor action
https://vimeo.com/58241202
Justin Brown
Chief Pineapple Supervisor
“The Pineapple Lounge will be hosting the Brisbane Writers Festival's after sessions bar each evening after the last session of the BWF, Thursday 6th to Sunday the 9th of September this year, with the lovely folk from Lock, Stock & Barrel. It will be located between GOMA and the State Library down by the River. We will be getting singer songwriters to do a set (3 to 5 artists per night) and we will have lyrics typed out in a zine, so you can actually take in what they are singing about. browndog has scoured for Australia these limited spots and the bands are bow locked away in training. The final lineup you can see on our blog here.”
The Pineapple Lounge - Pineapple Writers Sessions 2012
“The Pineapple Lounge is holding 5 parties - Brisbane at Souths Leagues Club, Westend 28/1/11, Byron Bay 4/2/11, Sydney 12/2/11, Armidale (tbc), and Melbourne 19/2/11. The first event is being held in Brisbane this Friday the 28th of January at Souths Leagues Club, West End, 5pm. The Pineapple Lounge parties are raising money for the Premier's Flood Relief Appeal with 100% of funds raised being donated.
Souths Leagues Club, West End.
Friday 28th Jan. Doors open 5pm. First band 5pm.
The venue holds 650. 2 stages. 2 levels and a lovely verandah
Featuring Afrodizziact (mini-crew), Golden Sound, The View From Madeleine's Couch, Our Ithacca Creek, Ruby Blue, Kafka, Rude Kat, Mikelangelo, Cheap Fakes, Chocolate Strings, Melotonins, The Upsteppers, Kingfisha, Baron Filed, Elena B Williams and DJ's Katch, Sarah Howells, Ben Osborne & Ravi and confirming some circus acts too.
All money goes to Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal.
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Justin Brown, browndog - Pineapple Lounge Small Press Release
“ABC National (2hours and second year in a row)) and 4ZZZ (3x1hr) did live broadcasts form The Pineapple Lounge at Woodford this year. We are now fully endorsed by them!”
browndog - www.abc.net.au
