The Pineapple Lounge is the brainchild of Justin Brown, aka browndog of Browndog Productions: Brisbane’s premier festival film production house, established in 1997 (www.browndog.com.au). This year browndog celebrates 10 years of Bluesfest filming and a whopping 13 years service to the Woodford Folk Festival, with many other significant festivals having lined up to be given the browndog “just like being there” film documentary treatment.
An avid music fan, in 2010 Browndog embarked upon a new venture – The Pineapple Lounge, a concept bar for Woodford Folk Festival.
“We wanted to show that Festival bars didn’t have to be just white tents and plastic seats – that a unique environment could be created for punters and artists alike that really did feel like an oasis in the middle of the festival.”
Says Justin, “We sold 47 50L vats of our signature drink Shampine in that first Pineapple Lounge…a drink with a secret family recipe that has it’s modestly romantic origins in the tennis parties of Ascot in the 60s. We found people loved coming to hang out and enjoy the comfort of the lounge room atmosphere of The Pineapple Lounge. Woodford were kind enough to let us curate the acts in our venue from the program, so we really were able to create a world of our own for people to escape into. I mean, who doesn’t love a party in a lounge room!”
October 2015 saw the emergence of a special partnership between The Pineapple Lounge and Bandviews.com, a new live-streaming site widely touted as “the future of music”. Each Wednesday from 8pm AEST a new artist performs live in The Pineapple Lounge to a select handful of real-time guests in a special inner city Brisbane location, and this performance is beamed out across the internet into homes around Australia and Asia.
If you haven’t been to the Woodford Folk Festival, and you’re curious about BandViews, or maybe even vintage caravans…come and get a small unofficial taste at The Triffid on the last party-Saturday before Christmas. It’s an all-night dance line-up ready to take-off. Look for The Pineapple Lounge on Facebook for details. It’s Pine Time!
To celebrate the party on Saturday the 19th December at The Triffid, with performances by 2Dogs (from the Resin Dogs), Golden Sound and The New Buzz we’re giving one lucky reader the chance to score a double pass to head along. Enter your details below for a chance to win!
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