Cologne and Lausanne. For these shows, The Apartments consisted of Peter Milton Walsh with long term French collaborators Natasha Penot and Antoine Chaperon. On December 11, 2021 The Apartments played The Great Club in Marrickville. Support was Lindy Morrison and Rob Snarski playing as a duo. Releases and guest appearance In January 2017, Brisbane label LCMR released a limited edition of 300 copies of The Apartments' first EP. In 2017 The Apartments released two albums from their back catalogue and for both it was the first time in vinyl and releases were limited to 1,000 copies each. Talitres and Riley Records released drift in September and Microcultures and Riley Records released fête foraine in November. The albums were reviewed together by Uncut in March 2018. drift was rated 7/10 and Jon Dale wrote the album is "...full of transit, a series of set pieces for urban anomie and romantic collapse...", while fête foraine received a 9/10 rating. Walsh is guest vocalist on "Attention to Life", a track on Piano Magic's final album, Closure, released by Second Language Music on 20 January 2017. The album also features guest appearances by Audrey Riley, cellist on The Apartments first album. The band's show from September 2015 at the L'Ubu club in Rennes, featuring Allum, Chaperon, Fish, Riteau, Tessier, Penot was recorded by French television, and the performance was released on the Live at L'Ubu double vinyl album on Record Store Day, 13 April 2019. In September 2020 Talitres released a new album, In and Out of the Light The Apartments are due to tour France in March 2022 with Allum, Chaperon and Penot. Eliot Fish is replaced by Michael Hiscock of The Field Mice. Discography Albums Singles, EPs Compilation tracksSome Kind of Wonderful Soundtrack (1987), MCA: "The Shyest Time"POPvolume#1 (1999),POPnews: "Knowing You Were Loved"Behind the Banana Curtain – a collection of 41 Brisbane bands (2000), 4ZZZ: "Help"Can’t Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2005) Chapter: "Help" Inner City Soundtrack (2005) Laughing Outlaw: "All You Wanted" References Further reading Clinton Walker (1984). The Next Thing: Contemporary Australian Rock Kangaroo Press. Clinton Walker (1996). Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977-1991. Pan MacMillan Australia. Andrew Stafford (2004). Pig City: from the Saints to Savage Garden. University of Queensland Press. ISBNs 9780702233609 (first edition), 9780702235610 (second edition) Rob Young (2006). Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited'' Black Dog Publishing. External links Australian indie rock groups Musical groups