peoplestour.net | unique audio tours

Hi! This website is a set of audio tours of local places and things in Melbourne, Australia.

Tour guides are let loose to choose both the topic and audience of their tour.

Most tours are of places in that have special meaning for their tour guides. Places people go to find quiet, places that inspire daydreaming, places where they do their grocery shopping. And some tours take us onto more abstract terrain – tours of attitudes, of fictional characters from another era, of laughter.

About half of the tours cater for a specific or niche audience on a hunch that we’re not all the same: you will find a tour for people with anxiety, a tour for people who want to see live local music and a tour for people scared to go north of Bell Street.

There is one thing that all the tours have in common - people telling stories. Have a listen...

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Tour of the Aboriginal history of Gertrude Street 1920-50

Tour of the Aboriginal history of Gertrude Street 1920-50

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Larry walks us down Gertrude Street to the Exhibition Gardens on a tour of the Aboriginal history of the area.
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A tour of a protest song

A tour of a protest song

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Helen Begley, winner of the Guilford Green Guitar Songwriting Competition, takes us on a tour of a protest song set in a logging protest camp.

A tour of Indigenous hip hop

A tour of Indigenous hip hop

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Indigenous MC and community broadcaster Johnny Mac takes us on a tour of his life as a rapper and the politics behind his music.

A tour of my bands

A tour of my bands

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Monica Sonand gives a tour, band by band, of her experience playing in a bunch of Australian indie bands.

A tour of unpopular music

A tour of unpopular music

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Leith Thomas, self-declared expert of unpopular music, explains what unpopular music is and how Melbourne is home to one of the world’s most active and thriving unpopular music communities.