Kate Hulett

It felt like a magical kind of place.

set of a film in fact it's been used as a set for many films and shows particularly recently it's got this incredible gold rush era architecture it's got the oldest building in western australia it's a place where first nations people have met and celebrated for thousands of years so it's just got this kind of interesting layered history and vibe it's amazing as you mentioned creative kind of undercurrent that's been here for many years where does that come from it's

I think in the 80s and 90s there was lots of the upper stories were used for studios for lots of artists and for free.

So there was a big.

For free?

Yes, free.

Can you believe it?

And there was a real mix of people from many countries kind of congregated here.

There was a working port.

It was a bit gritty and grotty.

And it was where people hung out and music and artists and protest and experimentation, the orange people, you know, there was this kind of layered, it was really multicultural.

And I guess at that time in Perth, I mean, we're not brilliantly diverse here, but Fremantle really was.

And one of the band members in Pond wrote an article called Pretty Flowers Growing Shit.

And in a way that's how lots of creatives I think view Western Australia.

It's very remote obviously.

There's not a big scene in terms of producers and kind of scouts and that sort of stuff.

So you can really experiment and try and fail and no one cares.

Because there's zero expectations almost.

Yeah.

And then there's all these, you know, Tame Impala comes from Frio.