GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 21 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, BENNY WHISKEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM JOCK BARNES Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM ISAAC FRANKHAM Q TWO HANDS COLLECTIVE, BALLINA, 8PM THE COMEDY COMMUNE FEATURING STEVEN J WHITELY Q LISMORE REGIONAL GALLERY 6PM CONVERSATION WITH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY DIRECTOR JOSE ROCA WITH VANESSA EKINS AND KYLIE CALDWELL WITH CLAUDIE FROCK Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 10.30PM BACK TO THE TIVOLI
THURSDAY 22 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, OOZ Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM JASPER O’MALLEY DUO, 8PM TIM STOKES DUO Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM SARAH GRANT Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 5.30PM OPEN MIC Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 4PM STRING TIME
FRIDAY 23
Q COURTHOUSE HOTEL, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM LEMON CHICKEN Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM ISAAC FRANKHAM Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 7.30PM BRAD HOLMES Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 8PM THE JACKS Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM JAMES PALMER DUO Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 3.30PM STRING TIME, THE SHOWROOM 8PM ELVIS THROUGH THE YEARS, THE STAGE 8PM DJ TRADEMARK Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM ANDREW TAYLOR, 9.30PM STRICTLY ACOUSTIC
SATURDAY 24 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SUPERCHEEZE Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 1PM BLUEBONE, 4PM SCOTT DAY VEE, 6.30PM ASHER BEAU, 9PM THE 4’20 SOUND
SUNDAY 25 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JOCK BARNES DUO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM SARAH GRANT Q BYRON THEATRE 7.30PM A TASTE OF IRELAND – THE IRISH MUSIC & DANCE SENSATION PRESENTED BY PACE LIVE Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM OOZ Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 5PM ASHER BEAU Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM HARRY NICHOLS Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 2.30PM MR TROY Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 3PM STRING TIME Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 2PM MIKE EDWARDS, 6.30PM FAT ALBERT
MONDAY 26
Q BYRON THEATRE 2PM & 6.30PM THE LITTTLE MERMAID PRESENTED BY VICTORIAN STATE BALLET & BYRON THEATRE
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JASON DELPHIN
Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM GROOVE & BAO – TIM DEGEN
Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MARK CHAPMAN
Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM ISAAC FRANKHAM
Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM ALISHA TODD, 8PM JON CROSBIE
TUESDAY 27
Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6PM SOUTHWALL
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, CHRIS ARONSTEN
Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM DJ GEZ, 5.15PM DJ SI CLONE
Q BYRON THEATRE 7PM THE LITTTLE MERMAID PRESENTED BY VICTORIAN STATE BALLET & BYRON THEATRE
Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM PHIL HOWELL, 8PM JOE CONROY
Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM WENDY FORD
Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MATT BUGGY
Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM BENNY ODWYER
Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM OLLIE TWOHILL
Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6PM BRIAN WATT DUO
Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM BRAD JONES
Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4.30PM DJ ANDRE MEYER
Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 7PM MANTLEPEACE
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JON J BRADLEY
Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 6PM STRING TIME, THE SHOWROOM 8PM TAPESTRY
Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM STEVE TYSON, 8PM JASON DELPHIN
Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JESSE WHITNEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 3PM BEN WHITING
Q BYRON SCHOOL OF ART, MULLUMBIMBY, 6PM LOOK AT / LOOK THROUGH Q ST JOHN’S SCHOOL HALL, MULLUMBIMBY, 7.30PM ECSTATIC DANCE – DJ LOQI
Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, 8PM HARRY NICHOLS
Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM STEPHEN GREEN, 9.30PM DISCO DISCIPLES
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Q EWINGSDALE HALL 8PM ECSTATIC DANCE – DJ WILD HONEY
WEDNESDAY 28
Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, TIM DEGAN Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, FLOOD STORIES
DANCING DAVE’S COMEDY SPECTACULAR! Dave Callan is a big hairy Irish bloke. He’s funny. You would have seen him on Rove and heard him on Triple J – but now you get to see him dance! With backup dancers and a show full of spectacular choreography and a hairy Viking, catch A–Z of Dance at Byron Comedy Fest. Dave told us a little more… What made you want to do less talking and more dancing? In 2011 burlesque dancers took over the comedy festival. No judgement; they just did. I got asked to host a burlesque show that year and they asked me to do their finale with them. I said ‘What is it?’ They said ‘Single Ladies’ and I said ‘How hard can it be?’. Three days and 40 hours of practise later I had learned it. It got a great reaction and I thought ‘Give the people more of what they want’ and so now I’m doing a one-hour comedy dance show. I’m intrigued how you came up with the idea – it’s such a big jump, literally, from stand up comedy, way out of the usual comfort zone – what led you here? How has this changed your feelings about performing? I learned so many dances over the years just for fun and decided a good framework for the show was the alphabet; I could put a dance in for every letter. So that was the way I came up with the idea. Plus, people laugh at me when I dance so I may as well do a show of it. It’s really fun to do, relevant to stand up, because it’s a dynamic art form, it’s ‘colour and movement’ as they say, and alternating between it and stand up is good because it switches up the audience’s attention span!
with them for years on various iterations of these dance shows and as I’ve become a dancer they’ve become comedians! They always had a good sense of timing because they’re dancers, but I love seeing them develop clowning skills and playing around more as the years go by. What is the criteria for a video clip to get the Callan treatment? Which ones made it? The clip has to be iconic so everyone gets the reference, and it has to have choreography all the way through, or at least in the chorus. The third criteria is it has to have sassy sort of quite feminine dance moves because then it looks funny when a big hairy Viking does it. It ends up being quite incongruous. Do you have a list of clips that you are keen to recreate one day? Ones that are super hard, so you need to be on top of your dance game? Yes! I’d love to do some tap or Irish stuff. Something like Singing in the Rain by Gene Kelly. It’s amazing, but it’s so intricate, and requires an understanding of tap that I’m a ways off – to put it mildly. But one day... What should we expect from The A–Z of Dance? The current show A–Z of Dance is a hectic hour of different dance styles, with video, backup dancers, stand up comedy and a lot of cardio for poor me. Something for everyone in there, and it’s just stupid silly hilarious fun. Dave Callan presents The A-Z of Dance (A Little Less Conversation) at the Byron Comedy Festival 13–16 May 2021, at 9pm. Tickets and program info on byroncomedyfest.com
Unlike most comics you have to be fit – how does Dave Callan stay in shape? Aha! I don’t. I don’t keep in shape. Mick Jagger runs on a treadmill for months before a tour to get ready. I just struggle and then finally get fit at the end of the season. Like, I can actually do the show by the time it’s over. Luckily people find me struggling with the cardio funny so it’s win/win. Is it hard for you to follow and remember choreography – how important are your backup dancers? Tell me about them… No, it’s easy to remember the choreography. You just have to do it a million times and it’s in the muscle memory. It’s hard not to do the choreography at that point. Like you’re waking past Cotton On and ‘Single Ladies’ plays and you start doing it there in the shop because it’s in your bone marrow. The backup dancers are amazing. I’ve been working
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