The Apartments

The Apartments began in the spring of 1978 in Brisbane and that same spring, The Apartments singer/songwriter Peter Milton Walsh also played lead guitar with The Go-Betweens for a short but memorable time. The Go-Betweens affectionately commemorated Walsh’s departure with their next single, Don't Let Him Come Back… “Here he comes, with his twelve o’clock junk…who’s that dressed in black? Who’s that in his apartment?”

The Apartments work extends over 30 years and 10 albums from New York to London to Europe. The Paris Review describes the songbook of Peter Milton Walsh as, “… a world of smoke and gin and hazy regrets and horns and strings, like Leonard Cohen covering Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning—what adult life could feel like, if you were lucky, then unlucky.”

A new album, That’s What the Music is For, is released on 17 October 2025.  Walsh says… “This album reveals a story about time—of how past and present so often trade places and that in music and in memory, the people who have gone keep moving in and out of our lives—where can they live now, except in song? We will be saying goodbye to them in bits and pieces for the rest of our lives.”

The Australia tour by The Apartments to support That’s What the Music is Forcomes off the back of shows earlier this year in San Francisco and Mexico City.  In March 2026 The Apartments will tour France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal.

At the Junk

Bar The Apartments will be performing as a three piece, playing two sets in a night of new and old songs, and stories from the world of The Apartments songs.  Renovators Delight will open the evening.