Review – Amuse-Bouche
Amuse-Bouche has brilliant production values. There’s multiple screens, different camera angles and funny and interactive games. The band is also very good with their timing. This show almost feels like a talk show on TV.
Author: heckler
Review – Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown
Heckler can safely say that we were out-heckled by the people in this audience – the kids! They just loved Dr. Brown.
Melbourne Ska Orchestra [Australia]
Melbourne Ska Orchestra is a 26-piece band, fronted by Nicky Bomba, livewire drummer with John Butler Trio.
Review – Soap
Soap is an eclectic array of circus tricks, gymnastics and a lot of fun. What the performers can do is downright astounding and will challenge everything you believe about what the human body is capable of.
The Bombay Royale [Australia]
A compelling reason to come see your gig?
You will have never seen anything like it before. It’s a complete aural and visual experience, that is just too much fun to pass up.
Blue King Brown [Australia]
A compelling reason to come see your gig?
If you want to see political asylum seekers from West Papua, dancing with a diverse cultural mash up of amazing musicians from Australia, lead and driven by a no holds barred female dread with native american, mexican & samoan roots, come on down…
Picture Box Orchestra [Australia]
A compelling reason to go to your gig?
I’ll be performing several new tracks at WOMAD and my long term collaborator Faheem Mazhar has come over, all the way from Pakistan to perform with us. Because this is a cross cultural project any live performance of our repertoire with the original repertoire is extremely rare.
Jay Hoad Band [Australia/Fiji]
I think the best description we ever had was “An eclectic sound of global proportion”.
But honestly, I try to cover just about ever style of music I have ever heard throughout the show, all performed in a very high energy “play every show like it’s your last” kind of way.
AnDa Union [China]
The primary instrument used by the group, the morin huur or horse head fiddle, pays homage to Mongolia’s most revered animal, the horse.
Review – Squidboy
Imagine a small child at play in his room pretending to be a squid, jumping from one whimsical adventure to the next. Now swap that small child with a towering, bearded actor, and you have Squidboy.
Review – Simon Pampena in The Maths Olympics
Using a variety of performance mediums in his highly energetic show, Simon tries to show his love for all things mathematical, and keeps the entertainment going using iconic musical hits such as Baby Got Maths.
Review – Lovebirds
The singing is just amazing. The humour is fantastic – each of the four actors brings something different to the table – they are all incredibly talented and work perfectly together. You’ll probably fall in love with these curious creatures, the Lovebirds, as they take you on their journey of love and well, sex.
Review – Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show
The Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show is a nice concept: a send-up of an old-time travelling caravan that cons people into buying a bottle of Porcelain Punch, a shonky cure-all elixir. A number of circus and cabaret acts are performed to demonstrate the “miraculous” powers of the medicine, which can allegedly make people beautiful, healthy, or gain superhuman strength.
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