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178-180 Ocean Beach Rd, Sorrento used to be the place where band Munster Terrace would rehearse before gigs.
The Sorrento home where Munster Terrace lead singer Greg Sullivan grew up, and rehearsed with the band ahead of gigs, has been listed for sale with a $3.5m-$3.85m price guide.
Also known as “Sudge”, the pub rocker and his band were acclaimed as a cover outfit that started playing in the 1980s, and worked as a support act for fellow Aussie rockers The Saints in 1985.
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The band also had a handful of albums, with popular original singles including Rollin’ and Real Human Being.
Sullivan passed away in 2018, but the band is still a talking point along the Mornington Peninsula, where they had residencies at a number of the most-popular night spots.
Kay & Burton’s Liz Jensen said the singer had been like ‘Sorrento’s very own Michael Hutchence’, having been the crush of many young women in the area.
Munster Terrace performing live, featuring Greg Sullivan. Picture: YouTube/Supplied
His sisters have also revealed it wasn’t uncommon for their classmates to try to get a visit to their home on days when the band was rehearsing.
Built with sandstone walls and on a roundabout set between the coastal hamlet’s main drag, the bay beach and ocean beach, the property is also a local icon — and comes with “perfect” acoustics within.
“Inside the house, you feel like you are on 100 acres and not on a round about,” Ms Jensen said.
Enjoy a cup of coffee on the veranda.
“Buyers walk in and they can’t believe the character of it, and how quiet it is.”
The four-bedroom property features two living areas, including an open-plan kitchen connected to one, while decorative cornices and timber beams add character.
It is spread over two titles, with the 1536sq m block sporting mature palm trees among its neat gardens.
Ms Jensen said while the home had attracted interest from Melbourne-based buyers and locals, she’d also heard from a few people just wanting to have a peak inside because of the band’s connection.
“I remember passing him (Greg) in the street or seeing him at Tom Katz, and we all melted,” Ms Jensen said.
The kitchen has ample storage.
While the family have hung onto the property for some time, they now want it to go to another owner who will appreciate it the way have.
If it comes to pass, it would see the next owners connected with the address for generations with Sullivan and his sisters’ parents buying the home which was located almost exactly in the middle of where they had each grown up about 1km apart in Sorrento.
Their father, Fred, was the local barber and also cut hair at the nearby Portsea Officer Cadet School.
In a letter describing their families connection with the property, the sisters note the local icon had been the site of family members’ birthday parties, engagements and christenings.
The property has a $3.5m-$3.85m price guide.
It has also hosted grandchildren and great grandchildren to their parents, though for much of the 1970s and 1980s the home was a meeting point for many local children using it as a central point to town as they hung out with various members of the family.
“There’s something very wholesome about the whole history,” Ms Jensen said.
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