Brisbane Park To Be Renamed After Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper is to be honoured by his hometown in a big way, as a local park is set to be renamed after the iconic Australian musician. 

As The Guardian reports, council have approved an Oxley-based park to be renamed Ed Kuepper Park following a petition that garnered over 800 signatures. 

As well as this, plans are in motion for another Brisbane location to pay tribute to Kuepper and The Saints. 

John Willsteed, a contributor on The Go-Betweens' 1988 LP, 16 Lover's Lane, has applied for state government funding to honour a rehearsal space used by The Saints, dubbed Club 76.

As The Go-Betweens have already been recognised by the city with the famous Go Between Bridge, Willsteed believes The Saints should also be honoured.

"When we look at Brisbane’s cultural history in the last 50 years, internationally, the Saints [and] the Go-Betweens, whether we like them or not, they're the names that always come up, so I think they're inextricably linked," he said.

"We have some kind of international reputation, thanks very much to them, and so I think we really should acknowledge it. People come from overseas knowing that this is the place where the Saints and the Go-Betweens came from."

Kuepper said of the news, "When I was a kid, I liked being pointed towards where certain things happened. A friend of mine was living across the road from Tony Worsley, who was a local hero, a '60s garage singer.

"That kind of thing really impressed me. So yes, I do think it's nice having little plaques around to point out that such and such a person did this at a certain place, or this incident happened here or there. Be it arts or history, I like it."