Adam Simmon’s Toy Band
On a soggy Sunday afternoon in Footscray, the parental gratitude in the room was tangible. Musicians had wacky teeth bearing hats, and balloons and squeaky objects were causing a commotion. The animated offspring of an appreciative and burgeoning audience were up at the front. At this free concert, the atmosphere was a unique and loopy [...]
Yianni in Yianni’s Head
In the tradition of the well-known US sitcom ‘Herman’s Head’, Yianni plays the roles of the four dominant voices in his head: love, logic, fear and libido (the latter bizarrely yet somehow aptly named ‘Pierre’). He narrates their journey through a relationship (spotting, meeting, relationship, breaking up), jumping in and out of character as required.
Each [...]
WONKA! A Live Cinema Remix
Did you know that the master tapes, with precious sound, music and voice recordings, of the original Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory mysteriously disappeared just before the film’s release in the ’70s? The whole film had to be rewritten and dubbed around that silly Roald Dahl book.
Luckily, the people behind Wonka! found the masters [...]
Wes Snelling in Record Time
Forget Mariah Carey, forget J-Lo - Wes Snelling is the new modern day diva. He has the walk, the look and, most importantly, the attitude. Of course, one would hope that it’s all played up for laughs on stage, especially considering his poor, ever suffering assistant Steven Weir who bares the brunt of most of [...]
Trevor Major is…Throbbie Millions
What I’ll loosely term ‘humour’ in Trevor Major is…Throbbie Millions is largely derived from the Throbbie Millions character (a cunningly disguised parody of the real Robbie Williams) being an up-himself talentless shit. Technically, it uses the time-honoured tradition of turning pop songs into parodies by turning keywords and phrases into scatological and sexual references, with [...]
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