Dave Graney converses with Alex Ettling - Historian and Western Melbournian etc

Alex Ettling is a one man independent researcher and historian. He was working with the Living Museum Of The West (refers to the Western side of Melbourne - Footscray. Like the Western side of Sydney it’s where the factories and the factory fodder lived, where people traditionally drove to work with the sun in their eyes and drove home with the sun in their eyes) . He came to talk about a gig he had organized in Footscray (a place of few gigs or cultural happenings) called Footscray Folk. A celebration of 60s Melbourne folk. Two players in Margret Roadknight and David Lumsden coming out of retirement and one, Martin Wyndham Read making it a stop on his final tour. Alex had previously issued a book called Knocking The Top Off - A History of Alcohol In Australia. We talked about folk, Australian folk, performing and music in general, as fans and people involved in its presentation.