Musician, cartoonist, artist, story-teller and unofficial Mayor of St Kilda, Fred Negro has a long and wild association with The Espy. WARNING: Fred is a punk. Expect expletives.

As a teenager Pat Hart lived at the Hotel Esplanade during the latter half of the 1940's. In 2018 she returned to the partially-renovated Espy to share stories of her life and times at this grand Hotel.

Recording from the Studio at the iconic Hotel Esplanade in St Kilda, we tell the amazing stories of its 140-year history, talk to the people who kept it alive all these years, and to those who now come here to play, to listen, to eat, drink, laugh and love.