1 definition by Stormin_Norman
In the early 90s, Brisbane was just starting to wake up from being a sleepy big country town. The alternative scene of musos and general party animals still saw the town as the aforementioned sleepy big country town where restaurants shut early and pubs closed at midnight.
To take the mickey they started to nickname their town 'BrisVegas' because it was nothing like the 24 hour American party city.
The nickname stuck, and as Brisbane emerged as a modern city sometimes the origins of this nickname as mistaken and taken to mean that Brisbane was likened to Las Vegas - when it was the opposite.
To take the mickey they started to nickname their town 'BrisVegas' because it was nothing like the 24 hour American party city.
The nickname stuck, and as Brisbane emerged as a modern city sometimes the origins of this nickname as mistaken and taken to mean that Brisbane was likened to Las Vegas - when it was the opposite.
Regurgitator, that quaintly strange BrisVegas band, took the nation by storm with their mix of electronica and rock.
by Stormin_Norman August 21, 2010