This is the walk for those with the legs for poetry. First, take two stone monuments off their plinths for a well-deserved drink. Shake your fist at the Windsor Hotel developers, throw a handful of invisible confetti at a wedding and – if they’ll let you – check out the shop that turned its back to the world. Then, wrap it all up with the ephemeral monuments to the could-have-been legends of Melbourne’s rock scene. This is Melbourne’s long back story: black turtlenecks, grandeur, new money illusions – the tombs of history, glory and disappointment.
Spring St, from Robert Burns to Lindsay Gordon statues (John McKelvie)
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Windsor Hotel, 100 – 150 Spring St (Ezra Bix)
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Parliament House, 110-160 Spring St (Luis Serrano Gonzalez)
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Job Warehouse, 56 – 58 Bourke St (Anna Fern)
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Lees Place, between Russell and Exhibition Sts (Alicia Sometimes)
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