Archive for the ‘Hobbies & Interests’ Category
Jazz Band For Hire—Southside Jazz
Clint Smith’s Southside Jazz Band has received several bookings for a variety of functions resulting from their sponsorship advertisement placed on the John Elliott Report website earlier this year, where their filmed recording in Bank Place, Melbourne has had in excess of 350 Youtube hits.
Alfa Romeo “Open Top Motoring Tribute” Sunday 30th October
This Sunday the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of Victoria will be holding their 2011 Spettacolo at Wesley College’s front oval 577 St Kilda Road Melbourne where over 250 Alfa Romeo veteran, vintage, classic and modern models will be on public display. Entry is free and gates open at 9am where judging will commence at 11 [...]
John Elliott’s Carlton – Donati’s Fine Meats And King & Godfree
Two well known and popular Carlton food retail establishments, Donati’s “The Opera Butcher’ and King & Godfree, the liquor, cheese and delicatessen retailer were recently filmed by the John Elliott film crew as part of a special promotion on Lygon Street, more commonly known as “Little Italy”.
Another Tasmanian First & Rare Specie-1923 Alfa Romeo RLS
This rare 1923 Alfa Romeo, now owned by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) , Launceston in Tasmania is one of only five in the world, but the only one retaining its original body work. Also, it was the first vehicle in Tasmania to reach 100 miles per hour (unofficially) back in 1924 [...]
Will Dustin Hoffman’s “Graduate” 1966 Alfa Romeo 1600 Spider Be There?
Highly unlikely, but a good chance an identical model of the classic1966“ Duetto” Spider will be on display at the Alfa Romeo Victorian Club’s 2011 Concorso Spettacolo to be held on Sunday 30th October 2011 at Wesley College’s sport grounds in St Kilda Road, Melbourne. (entry via Moubray St)
Carlton’s University Hotel “Good Broo Grand Final Day”
Broo, makers of the popular Aussie made premium larger ran a special Grand Final Day promotion at the University Hotel in Carlton. The John Elliott Report film crew where amongst the large crowd watching the direct telecast on the hotels large TV screen where we interviewed the hotel manager Gus and some of the Hotel [...]
Fosters Now Served In UK Schooners – Thanks to Paul Hogan
It didn’t take long back in the late 1980s for Paul Hogan and Fosters to convince Britain’s draught beer drinking population that Fosters, The Amber Necter from Down Under, was a great beer. However, it took over 300 years for the UK Authorities to allow pubs to serve beer other than in pints (570ML) or [...]
John Elliott’s Carlton: Lygon Food Store – An Australian First
When the post WW2 Italian immigrant Valmorbida family acquired the Lygon Food Store in Carlton in 1951 and started to import parmesan cheese and prosciutto hams from Italy, little did they know then what impact this would have on Carlton’s evolution as Australia’s “Little Italy”. Italian families from Melbourne’s suburbs, Victorian country towns and even [...]
Tasmanian Distillers Prestigious UK Whisky Export Order From Harrods
Patrick Maguire, the head distiller at Sullivans Cove has achieved a coup Sir Henry Jones would have been very proud of as Patrick not only cracked the competitive UK export market, but his whisky was selected by Harrods London as the best Australian single malt whisky. As a result this whisky from the Apple Isle [...]
John Elliott – Not The Only Jazz Fan
I saw this the other day on YouTube and thought it was worth a post, it seems I am not the only Jazz fan after all. A few funny comments too, “for once, a musical composition that has just the right amount of cowbell”.
A Few Rare Photos – Thanks To “The House Of Rising Sun”
I recently received from a friend an interesting selection of rare photos taken of high profile international people from all walks of life where the 1964 New Orleans song, The House of the Rising Sun, is played in the background. You will enjoy seeing these. I did…..
John Elliott Asks – Who Did Light Billy Joel’s Fire ?
Over the weekend I received from a friend of mine a very nostalgic and entertaining video film clip of Billy Joel’s well known song “We Didn’t Start The Fire” but this video clip includes photos of each of the people/events named in his song (thanks to Google) covering the first 40 years of his life [...]
