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TOM GLEESON TIX Comedian Tom Gleeson is about to go into showbiz lockdown when he fronts Channel 10’s new This Week Live comedy panel show. Catch his last few live shows before he’s back on the box. Two great shows with a double pass to give to each. Friday 30 Aug at the Byron Brewery and Saturday 31 Aug at Cabarita Beach Sports Club. Tix are worth $25 each – enquiries at the venues. To win, email gigscomp@echo.net.au with subject header ‘tom tom club’. THE STORY TREE We have two of Jenny Cargill’s gorgeous new CDs to give away – The Story Tree and other nature tales. Jenny cleverly tells everyday stories that help empower children with a sense of wonder and whimsy about their natural world. It certainly kept my four-year-old quiet on our six-hour car journey! Email gigscomp@echo.net.au with subject header ‘story tree for me’.
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VAUDEVILLE, ROCK'N'ROLL, JUNKYARD GYPSIES & YOU MELBOURNE’S ROISTEROUS ROGUES RAPSKALLION WILL ROCK THE SILK STOCKINGS OFF PATRONS AT A SNEAKY SPLENDOUR SIDESHOW AT THE BYRON THEATRE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE ON WEDNESDAY. Voted Adelaide Fringe Festival’s ‘Best Musical Act’ this is a troupe who know how to deliver unearthly delights. This show is very special because, unlike previous Byron shows, this is a cabaret-style show with special guest and vaudevillian baroness, Miss Friby! How do you guys keep reinventing your shows? Our tunes always evolve over time, the more we play them. We also work with performance artists, whose creative input adds a constantly changing performance. Where do you draw inspiration? As we’ve never limited ourselves to a particular genre of music, we have the freedom to draw inspiration from everything we hear. Everyone in the band has very different musical tastes, which allows us to be quite eclectic in our compositional choices. Lyrically I draw a lot of inspiration from the literature of the 18th century, specifically Dickens and Dumas, blended with the dialogue from old Carry On films. Where do you get your fabulous costumes from? Do you have a stylist? I usually find my favourite clothes, discarded, and buried beneath piles of leaves in alleyways; they always seem to fit better! Certainly the ladies in the group spend a lot more time on their costumes, which is why they always look so fabulous. We are all our own personal stylists,
for better or worse. I do have a moustache stylist; he’s a tiny dormouse called Horatio. Why vaudeville? We’ve always been interested in the variety of performance involved in vaudeville. I’d love to get a dancing and juggling dog. Vaudeville to me is the epitome of entertainment without restraints. It developed in the late 1800s in America, as part of travelling medicine shows, freak shows, dime museums, and burlesque shows in saloons, and would have earlier roots in the music halls of England. What do you think is so seductive about Rapskallion? Apart from the general aroma, and the often-minuscule outfit choices, there is a wild orgiastic Dionysian atmosphere whenever we take to the stage, adorned with swashbuckling romance that has proved most stimulating in the past. How does your cabaret show differ from your other shows? We collaborate a lot with the magnificent Miss Friby, who are one of Melbourne’s foremost exponents of cabaret and vaudevillean extravagances, so our cabaret show is a blend of our musical input and their alluringly comedic songand-dance numbers. What should we expect for your show at the Byron Community Centre? A night of wild musical abandonment, whimsical humour, death-defying dance routines, a face full of confetti, exploding accordions, and a band brimming with rock ’n’ roll joie de vivre and Splendour afterglow. Wednesday 31 July at the Byron Theatre, Community Centre. Tix $18 pre or $20 at door or at byroncentre.com.au. 8pm.
LIVE MUSICA
Those Mountain Girls Round Mountain Girls will play their first gig in Byron Shire since the release of their new album Getting There is Only Halfway Back when they take the stage on Sunday at the Hotel Brunswick. It’ll be a great chance to get your hands on the disc as well as witnessing their inimitable live take on some of the new tracks. 4pm.
From the Voice to The Band Simon Meli and his band The Widowbirds bring their rootsy rock show to the Ballina RSL on Saturday night. Often drawing ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS AT THE comparisons to some of the world’s finest music HOTEL BRUNSWICK ON SUNDAY artists, such as a very
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young Rod Stewart, a Paul Rodgers and a young Robert Plant, it is Meli’s unique and original sound, his powerful delivery, backed by The Widowbirds that is what Australian audiences are waiting for! Tickets at the venue. Show at 8pm
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