"The Retreat Hotel is a rambling old pub in Brunswick that hosts free gigs every day of the week. There are three spaces—the small front bar (so unpretentious there’s sometimes a clothes horse draped with drying bar mats in the corner), the main room with a stage styled like a saloon, and an epic beer garden. Bands and singers could be playing tunes in any of them; you'll find local singer-songwriters testing out new material, punk and rock bands on the rise, and familiar faces on the Melbourne scene." - Carrie Hutchinson
Alamy