It was these questions, along with others, that arose while I ate at the newly reopened Punters Club in Fitzroy. The original Punters, which closed in 2002, was a stalwart of the inner north’s ...

See all stories. From the late ’80s to the early noughties, the Punters Club – on Fitzroy’s Brunswick Street – was a linchpin of Melbourne’s live music scene. The grit and grunge were as ...

For Angie Hart, it began when she was thrown out. In 1988, aged just 16, Hart began hanging out at Fitzroy's Punters Club Hotel, the Brunswick Street band room that would prove to be a vital link ...

Legendary Melbourne music institution The Punters Club is set to reopen next month, 22 years after calling last drinks. The pub and live music venue, located on Brunswick Street Fitzroy, was a ...

If you shot an arrow through the heart of old Fitzroy, the hole would pierce a hundred layers or more. There’d be the Punters Club and Brunswick Street Oval. There’d be Archie Roach and Ruby ...

The Fitzroy flyer grabbed his first national beach flags ... Harris joined the Fitzroy club soon after arriving in New Plymouth. "I'm heading to Aussie [to live] and I might have to give flags ...