Splendour In The Grass 2012

 

If you’re heading along to Splendour this year, you can see me doing some things at the Forum tent over the weekend.

 

SATURDAY, 2PM: Rock Gods – Supernatural Talent or a Talent for the Supernatural?

From ancient tribal worship chants and baroque hymns to the slavery origins of gospel songs, music and spirituality have long been intertwined.

But what comes first – musical genius or divine inspiration? Does it take supernatural talent to be a rock god? Or just belief in the supernatural?

Not every chart-topper believes their success is destined but god still receives more thanks at the Grammys and other awards ceremonies than anyone or anything else.

Does faith give rockstars the confidence they need to rise above the criticism, competition and rough-and-tumble of the music industry? Or, maybe, they’re all just crazy?

Join the flock as they gather to hear the gospel and heresy according to Australia’s favourite faith-prodding documentary film-maker and broadcaster John Safran, writer/comedian/star of the award-winning comedy show “God Is Bullshit” Catherine Deveny, The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel, triple j breakfast host and atheist Tom Ballard, singer/songwriter Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe, 50 Years of Dylan), Spiderbait’s Kram (who once penned a punk anthem about going on a roadtrip with Jesus) and World Vision’s national advisor for youth, faith & activism Jarrod McKenna.

 

 

SUNDAY, 4PM: SPLENDOUR COMEDY CLUB

Comedians Wil Anderson, Catherine Deveny, Tom Ballard and Dan Ilic will have you rolling in the grassy aisles as they kick off the inaugural Splendour Forum Comedy Club.

 

All the details on the Splendour site.

Yay festival times and whooooo

Comedy On The Rox

 

Hey I’m headlining the brilliant room Comedy On The Rox in Sydney on Wednesday 18th July and you should come please.

Tickets and such here.

Mic In Hand’s 9th Birthday: Thursday June 28th

 Huzzah! A Mic In Hand – one of the finest comedy rooms ever in the world ever – is celebrating its 9th birthday this Thursday night and they’ve very nicely asked me to MC. These are always super fun gigs because every is very cheery and there’s plenty of booze.

Details up here.

DJing @ Propaganda, June 21st

 

Hurray! I get to play songs! Come along to Sydney’s World Bar on Thursday June 21st from 9pm. I will play indie songs to make you dance and mix poorly.

Further details here.

Doing Stuff in 2012: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney

My 2012 stand-up show is entitled Doing Stuff. I would bloody well love you to come along to see it if you can.

It is a show about political happenings and trying to make a difference in the world but it is not going to be preachy or anything like that.

 

 

 

ADELAIDE

Tues Feb 21st – Sat 25th @ Rhino Room Upstairs. Tickets here.

BRISBANE

Tues March 6th – Sun 11th @ The Brisbane Powerhouse. Tickets here.

MELBOURNE

Thurs March 29th – Sun April 22nd @ The Swiss House. Tickets here.

SYDNEY

Fri May 11th & Sat May 12th @ The Sydney Comedy Store. Tickets here.

 

You can read some nice reviews of the show on this website and this website and this website (about 3/4 of the way down) and this website, though please be warned they kind of come with a SPOILER ALERT.

NSW RAW Comedy State Final

 

I’m way excited about MCing the NSW State Final of RAW Comedy at the Sydney Comedy Store.

It’s happening on Tuesday March 20th at 8pm, tickets are between $20 and $25. All the details here.

Come and support some really really funny people you’ve never seen before.