The Smith’s Sunday Session (2-6pm every Sunday) is pretty much a (non) religious ritual, observed by very few at this stage admittedly, but nevertheless there are very few things, in fact only one thing, that can convince Smith’s to put it aside, and that thing is the launch of the Brass Knuckle Brass Band Signature Cocktail.

Smith’s Bar Manager, Corey Bresnan, has concocted a fiery, brassy, old-timey, mind-boggling, sexual-feeling-entingling… umm… drink... which also tastes very nice. I’m drinking the one in the photo above right now and I can aver, it tastes very nice. Or as Corey says:

“Inspired by a dare between two members of Canberra's hottest brass ensemble, this fistful starts with a solid bass note, augmented with brassy spice, and follows through with a wicked punch to the throat. See if you can guess the dare.”

BKBB will be playing acoustically out on the patio all afternoon and have only asked to be paid in Brass Knuckles (as they’re already colloquially known). We all know their formidable appetite for consuming alcoholic beverages, possibly only equalled by their irrepressible joy de vivre and seemingly insatiable desire to play gigs and party. 

Entry is free. It’s hard to actually charge people hanging about on the public concourse. However the Happy Donation Sombrero, and possibly also the Yellow Hat of Love, will be passed around (to help pay for all the cocktails the band will drink). So please give generously to save Smith’s from a BKBB induced insolvency. 

This may coincide with one of those events the local government occasionally puts on around town, a poor cousin of Roman ‘bread and circuses’ style civilian pacification without even a hint of ritual savagery, Christians being eaten by lions (oh please, let’s bring that back) or battles to the death between men, crocodiles, lions, elephants and anacondas. No, we shall have (maybe, if all the relevant and irrelevant Ministers have come to an agreement about when it shall be) a ‘Pop-Up Picnic’ in the middle of Northbourne Avenue with... let’s just tick off the usual suspects shall we… Jumping Castle? Yep. Face Painting? Yep. Food Stalls? Yep. You get the idea. Anyway, we still don’t know if that’s happening at that time or not, but you can guarantee we will be doing the aforementioned BKBB Cocktail Launch at the pre-determined time and the irrelevant Ministers can do as they please or please not.