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Save the cranker
Hello my name is Justin Francis and I'm an Adelaide musician where because of the East End I was able to be inspired to follow that path in life for a job while making many lifelong friends on the way. Musician yes, and like many before and after my time we're all still cranking even with a new hair cut or not. I moved away for opportunity and as I near 50 I am looking to return home to S.A. bringing my work back, adding to the social fabric, to inspire others and also pay it back to the community.
Thing is where can I go for inspiration, a good band, good folk and will music have venues to present work at in the future? Poker machine barns is the reason I left Adelaide because they replaced most band rooms in the late nineties for revenue and family destruction. So I hit the road with fellow audio sculptors and we made our own way in music, creating new venues which still present original music today in the urban and rural areas of Australia. From this work we made studio recordings and it's still an ongoing concern today thirty years later.
Thank you to the East End of Adelaide and the Universities for entertaining us folk with music and arts culture over decades. Just like South Australian Country Arts and places like Carclew in North Adelaide, the CRANKER is a place for individuals and it’s a major thread in Australia’s social fabric. This music venue has forged many friendships since its inception and is still going strong today. My friends and I among many other mobs have shared a place to put on live shows for our bands and the patrons over the years.
Thirty years ago we were encouraged by South Australian arts and music organisations to pursue music as a pathway in life, yes here in Adelaide and so we did. The Crown and Anchor Hotel backed that vision too for many as did the punters, fellow creatives and individuals. Today in 2024 we continue as creatives on a professional level by having had those opportunities available early on as musicians and other skilled folk.
In turn The Crown and Anchor has provided employment opportunities for great hospitality staff, promoters, photographers, film makers, sound engineers both live and in studio with design and web artist's all adding to the fabric of life. Lets not forget the ticket collectors on the door for shows, always your best friend on a night out. The CRANKER is still that colorful wild horse in the East End, being a cultural piece of living art in motion. Without the Crown and Anchor in Adelaide what would it make of the social hubs and arts festivals?
A city renown worldwide for being the festival state. What would the South Australian arts and music organisations say, who encourage arts and music in our society statewide? What’s your message there? The community has a message and one to preserve an important social meeting place to share experiences with friends among the arts, music and culture.
It's the music venues like the Crown and Anchor that have helped me travel the world performing music along the way. I grew up in Adelaide with opportunities in open minded music venues like the CRANKER, then we took them out regionally and to other hemispheres too. I’d like to think the student accommodation can be built in a quieter part of the city where students can visit the Crown and Anchor to socialise so we can all experience their own and Adelaide's culture.
'Go home or go to the CRANKER'. Most University students went to the CRANKER , kind of like the assimilating social library.
All the following S.A. bands never went home either and neither did I like a million other people. I'm sure over a pint we would all agree to step up and say, SAVE THE CRANKER. I'm sure, including two mates no longer with us, Justin Mildwaters and Geoff Morgan would be appalled. Most of the musicians from these acts I've worked with would have played and partied at the CRANKER, 'turn it to eleven'. They are Ill Starred Captain, The Sunday Roast, Armadillo, Unevolved, Shane Labady, The Pragmatics, Greg Bakers Blues Party, Wooden Indians, Gravel Road & Free Willy.
Two music companies I co founded in S.A. are Corney Music and Seawitch Music where a few deals have been cut in the CRANKA I’m sure. A living entity the Crown and Anchor is and in the arts community, it's a kind of public arts office. We’re universal not reversal and also continue to work with longtime Adelaide friends/colleagues Jason at JLM Film studio and Dave at Big Sound recordings. Both are supporters of the CRANKER from a long history associated with the venue as well.
This is not a name drop but highlights how the CRANKER provides creative opportunities for many people in life as a pub, social meeting place and a right to be an individual. Its good to see passionate people stepping up in many ways to save an international cultural rocking iconic social HUB. Leave The Crown and Anchor alone thank you as there's always room to move somewhere else. Come to Adelaide, live in a quiet area, study and have a place to be yourself on a night out at the CRANKER
I'll have a Pint of Coopers Sparkling thanks and here's cheers to all the staff who've worked there through millennia. Rock on Folks and hopefully you can show the new students what Adelaide is all about instead of them becoming financial studying battery hens.. I may return home or move to another city instead if Adelaide becomes something it's not. South Australia the festival state? Show us how fringe you really are then.
LONG LIVE COMMON SENSE.
Hello my name is Justin Francis and I'm an Adelaide musician where because of the East End I was able to be inspired to follow that path in life for a job while making many lifelong friends on the way. Musician yes, and like many before and after my time we're all still cranking even with a new hair cut or not. I moved away for opportunity and as I near 50 I am looking to return home to S.A. bringing my work back, adding to the social fabric, to inspire others and also pay it back to the community.
Thing is where can I go for inspiration, a good band, good folk and will music have venues to present work at in the future? Poker machine barns is the reason I left Adelaide because they replaced most band rooms in the late nineties for revenue and family destruction. So I hit the road with fellow audio sculptors and we made our own way in music, creating new venues which still present original music today in the urban and rural areas of Australia. From this work we made studio recordings and it's still an ongoing concern today thirty years later.
Thank you to the East End of Adelaide and the Universities for entertaining us folk with music and arts culture over decades. Just like South Australian Country Arts and places like Carclew in North Adelaide, the CRANKER is a place for individuals and it’s a major thread in Australia’s social fabric. This music venue has forged many friendships since its inception and is still going strong today. My friends and I among many other mobs have shared a place to put on live shows for our bands and the patrons over the years.
Thirty years ago we were encouraged by South Australian arts and music organisations to pursue music as a pathway in life, yes here in Adelaide and so we did. The Crown and Anchor Hotel backed that vision too for many as did the punters, fellow creatives and individuals. Today in 2024 we continue as creatives on a professional level by having had those opportunities available early on as musicians and other skilled folk.
In turn The Crown and Anchor has provided employment opportunities for great hospitality staff, promoters, photographers, film makers, sound engineers both live and in studio with design and web artist's all adding to the fabric of life. Lets not forget the ticket collectors on the door for shows, always your best friend on a night out. The CRANKER is still that colorful wild horse in the East End, being a cultural piece of living art in motion. Without the Crown and Anchor in Adelaide what would it make of the social hubs and arts festivals?
A city renown worldwide for being the festival state. What would the South Australian arts and music organisations say, who encourage arts and music in our society statewide? What’s your message there? The community has a message and one to preserve an important social meeting place to share experiences with friends among the arts, music and culture.
It's the music venues like the Crown and Anchor that have helped me travel the world performing music along the way. I grew up in Adelaide with opportunities in open minded music venues like the CRANKER, then we took them out regionally and to other hemispheres too. I’d like to think the student accommodation can be built in a quieter part of the city where students can visit the Crown and Anchor to socialise so we can all experience their own and Adelaide's culture.
'Go home or go to the CRANKER'. Most University students went to the CRANKER , kind of like the assimilating social library.
All the following S.A. bands never went home either and neither did I like a million other people. I'm sure over a pint we would all agree to step up and say, SAVE THE CRANKER. I'm sure, including two mates no longer with us, Justin Mildwaters and Geoff Morgan would be appalled. Most of the musicians from these acts I've worked with would have played and partied at the CRANKER, 'turn it to eleven'. They are Ill Starred Captain, The Sunday Roast, Armadillo, Unevolved, Shane Labady, The Pragmatics, Greg Bakers Blues Party, Wooden Indians, Gravel Road & Free Willy.
Two music companies I co founded in S.A. are Corney Music and Seawitch Music where a few deals have been cut in the CRANKA I’m sure. A living entity the Crown and Anchor is and in the arts community, it's a kind of public arts office. We’re universal not reversal and also continue to work with longtime Adelaide friends/colleagues Jason at JLM Film studio and Dave at Big Sound recordings. Both are supporters of the CRANKER from a long history associated with the venue as well.
This is not a name drop but highlights how the CRANKER provides creative opportunities for many people in life as a pub, social meeting place and a right to be an individual. Its good to see passionate people stepping up in many ways to save an international cultural rocking iconic social HUB. Leave The Crown and Anchor alone thank you as there's always room to move somewhere else. Come to Adelaide, live in a quiet area, study and have a place to be yourself on a night out at the CRANKER
I'll have a Pint of Coopers Sparkling thanks and here's cheers to all the staff who've worked there through millennia. Rock on Folks and hopefully you can show the new students what Adelaide is all about instead of them becoming financial studying battery hens.. I may return home or move to another city instead if Adelaide becomes something it's not. South Australia the festival state? Show us how fringe you really are then.
LONG LIVE COMMON SENSE.