Cape Live: Craig
Craig is one of the dozens of bar/night club owners who I’ve seen take a crack at opening a venue on Brunswick Street. He did so about five doors up from the Evelyn, a place called Cape Live, playing live hip hop and funk music, including a pretty decent band called 12-Foot Diamonds, who don’t seem to be around anymore. One of my clearest memories of his venue was that his actual bar was a gigantic, solid lump of concrete that must have weighed over a ton. Inconveniently, when it was delivered, it was put in the wrong place, so it just sat there being in the way. Then one night, me, him and a few others, after getting sufficiently inebriated at the Evelyn, decided to go up to Cape Live to fix the situation, and, after lots of grunts, sweat and a few more drinks, we managed to drag the damn thing about a metre north to where it should have been. One time I saw him wearing a shirt, subtly striking in that it was covered in squares with four different shades of brown, and I specifically asked him to wear that while sitting for this portrait. Craig is now in Sydney, running a bar called Lazy Bones, which will soon celebrate its eleventh anniversary.