Sanity is an online Australian music and entertainment retailer. The brand specialises in the sale of CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and related merchandise and accessories. It is privately owned by Ray Itaoui. Previously operating through a chain of retail stores in Australia, it has been run as an online-only business since March 2023.
Dance Arena concept stores operated within a select group of large footprint Sanity outlets from 2000 until 2003. Dance Arenas offered an expanded range of commercial dance, house, trance, drum 'n' bass, hardcore, dubstep, R&B, hip-hop, and others on CD and vinyl. They also sold DJ equipment, headphones, T-shirts, hats, and event tickets. Dance Arenas were generally closed off from their host Sanity stores in order to play their own music, operated their own
A Sanity outlet within Westfield Fountain Gate
A Sanity outlet within the Northgate Shopping Centre
A Sanity outlet within the Watergardens Town Centre, this store closed in July 2013
Brashs, formerly Braschs, was an Australian music and electronics retailer. It was founded in 1862 by German Australian Marcus Brasch. The C in the name was dropped during World War I due to anti-Germanic feeling. In addition, the pronunciation of the 'a' was anglicised. The first store in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne specialised in pianos and reed organs and remained the company's flag-ship store until the group's demise. For the latter half of the 19th century and all through the 20th, Brashs remained a leading music house although Victorian-wide expansion did not begin until the mid-1950s and interstate 30 years later, through a combination of acquisitions and new store openings. This resulted in over 100 stores in all states and territories.
Brashs main flagship store at 244 Pitt Street, Sydney. It was opened in December 1986, then closed in April 1998 when Brashs went into administration. From 1999 to 2009 the building was leased out to several bargain stores. This photo taken in March 2010 shows the building empty, ready for demolition.
