Victorian Police Showband at Federation Square

Our men and women in blue doing jazz and swing.
The audience was spectacularly few, considering the band was actually pretty good. Either the cold weather, the plain fact that the performance was set in the peculiar-est hours of the late afternoon (I was there at 4.30pm), or the lack of promotion must explain for the twenty-odd present.
Starting today, the ACMI is running an exhibition called Game On. The exhibition highlights the history of video games from the first video game (Pong) to modern games (Wii Sports). It features…wait for it gamers..120 video consoles to play with. I can’t wait to get down there and relive my misspent youth playing some of the best games in history. Sure, the graphics on today’s games are amazing but they can’t beat the fun of Mario Bros., Super Mario Kart, Pac-Man, or Space Invaders.