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Carinda Hotel (interior - Freestate)
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Carinda Hotel interior as it is May 2007 with me standing where Bowie stood. I'm somewhat taller than Bowie!
Picture by Freestate
I'm sure you're all familiar with the Let's Dance video promo, and I'm sure you all know it was filmed in Australia (as was the China Girl promo). The hotel featured in the Let's Dance promo could be any number of country pubs, but reading Christopher Sandford's 'Bowie: Loving The Alien' (Revised Edition 1997) gave a solid clue as to where the country scenes were filmed.
'For the 'Let's Dance' video he drove to the sheep-country outpost of Carinda, walking into the one-room pub of the local hotel and charming the locals by talking cricket.' (p221)
Since the mid-80s I've frequently driven up through northern New South Wales to visit family and friends, and on my most recent 2700km trip I decided to track the Carinda Hotel down to see if it was still there, and to see how much it had changed if it was. Carinda can be found using Earth Google - just search for;
carinda, nsw, australia
and you'll find it, though it's a low resolution satellite photo. The Carinda Hotel is listed in the phone book.
So on the way home last Thursday 3rd May 2007 I took a 600km detour to visit Carinda. The pub is still there, although the exterior and interior have changed a bit since 1983.
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