Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Top 5 @ 5 - Wednesday 25 November 2009 (One Month Till Christmas)

1. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Heads will Roll (A-Trak Club Mix)
2. Duck-Sauce - Anyway/You re Nasty & cuts from their EP - Greatest Hits (ironic when they only have couple of songs)
3. Angus & Julia Stone - And The Boys
4. Bloody Beetroots - House N° 84
5. Roisin Murphy - Orally Fixated

Flying the Sky Highs and then hitting Sydney...

With the grime reality of 32 degrees heat at 11pm and an hour taxi line back into the city, come Sydney taxi's pick your flipping game up please!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Farewell Perth & a final stroll down Avenue Q

Oh dear my two weeks is tick tock tick tock UP!

I can't believe how quick my two weeks living in a west end world have gone! I have travelled to Mandurah, I have been through the mighty Kings Park, my body has no idea what time it is and I have witnessed a Perth opening Night!

Yes last night in Perth saw Avenue Q open, which I was rather harsh on in my last review and I still feel a little reluctant to give it a brilliant review so I have decided to review the after party instead, because that was FAB!

Now the show is not very long and with a dreamy 7:30pm show start time I was out by 10pm drink and party food in hand, and was their party food, their was enough food for all the boat people and then some!

Great party great little location and how I love Perth, swan out to the street and BOOM! there is a taxi, oh I love it, not like Sydney you as well just walk home!

So that brings me to the end of my stay in Perth and what a stay it has been I have also braved the rough city nightlife of Northbridge, been made a fool of at the Great Moscow Circus in Mandurah and discovered how beautiful the Western part of our country is.

What a hoot it has been and I have loved every minute of the BLOG updates and I hope you have also, I hopefully will be doing another Australia all over excursion early next year to check out some people's maps of Tassie so stay tuned peoples.

Happy weekend y'all in the end to a week with twins have been made singles, the Aussie dollar is still riding high, the drama off shore with the boat peoples is finally resolved or is it? and who could go passed the fact the Britney is still lip syncing her rather motherly figure across this fine brown land.

Until next time, C YA

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

10 WA acts to check out before you choke

Downsyde

Pendulum

Tame Impala

Red Jezebel

Drapht

Birds of Tokyo

Karnivool

Sugar Army

Bob Evans

Gyroscope

Week Two in Downtown Perth, WA

Well I am on the homeward stretch to my timely return to the East, Sydney city or some say Sin City!

I must say I was feeling it after a big night on the dance floor on Saturday dancing away in my own little rave cave to Brit's, Gaga, David "Sexy Bitch" DJ who works with all those RnB peoples and more. I had a great long walk (and got lost (twice)) through the beautiful Kings Park.

I entered my second week of Perth with a sun burnt face (due to my 2.5 hour walk through the Park), a sore head and one hell of a story to tell with my Moscow Circus guest starring appearance (more valuable than Heather Locklear's back in Melrose Place).

Now except a full review of my second sitting through Avenue Q opening Perth @ the Regal. I will also have live reviews back from Sydney on SIA @ the Enmore and a few more bit's and pieces coming up, hey some great gigs are coming see all the info below:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hordern Pavilion (early Jan)
Dizzee Rascal - Enmore Theatre (Late Jan)
Calvin Harris - Metro Theatre (Late Jan)
Lily Allen - Hordern Pavilion (Late Jan)
Good Vibes around the country in Feb 2010 (feat. the Gossip (Scream Beth Ditto), Salt n Pepa and a whole swag more!!!

That's it from Perth now with more to come in my final few days!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Man oh Man I'm in Mandurah

Well after the Moscow Circus debacle the night before I gather myself and had a look around the lovely town on Mandurah.

This town is all waterside, well designed and has cute little shops, cafes and yes fish & chip joints larger than Sydney's CBD!

After my trip to Mandurah I headed back to Perth for my ONE night on the Razzle Dazzle. Now this time last week the suburb (the next suburb to Perth) was in all the local papers. 40 Police go to Northbridge to close nightclub down, dozens arrested, read the headlines and I thought hey, this sounds like my kind of joint. It was basically like Kings Cross (with less whores), China Town (with my Japanese and Koreans), Newtown (less fanny bashers) and Darlinghurst (cleaner and not so skanky) all rolled into one.

Yes I head to the Court (fuck it was hard to find! Two places in the same street and cross st called the Court - originality people PLEASE!).

Okay so Northbridge was not Redfern take two, it was a fun place to drink, get loose and dance the night way to the town's most hated pop princess Shit Me Spears, Black Eyed Peas and more top 40 dance and in the other room, Mash Up's, Salt n Pepa, 90's stuff and the old piece of my man Dizzee Rascal.

The night was fab, I drunk too much, danced till my pants were wetter than a gay man off to see Britney whenever she decides to land in Sydney and really let my hairs down.

Greta fun night and I definitely recommend the Court to every Gay & Fanny Basher who deciders to go WEST!

AWT - Friday the 13th Report

Well Friday the 13th couldn't be more freaky than me (yes me) joining the cast of the Moscow Circus. I was serevely stitched up in an effort to get me into the Ring!

I couldn't believe it I have never been one for audience participation, I leave that to the performers and well was I embarrassed, the only thing keeping me from running out of the Circus screaming louder than Shit Me Spears after reading her Perth concerts reviews was the fact that I was in Mandurah, where you ask, Mandurah?

Yes I headed regional WA after my first working week in WA. I headed off to see the mighty Great Moscow Circus and yes was asked to join the show with three other unsuspecting people! OMG!

I thought to myself around 7:30pm nothing has gone wrong on this Friday the 13th until around 8:30pm that night!

Besides me running into the Ring the remainder of the Circus as per my last review was simply fab. The young kids love it, the middle aged love it and the oldies laugh and cackle along too.

After a mighty week and surviving the time change and being in a show (EEEEHHHHH) it came to an end of a memorable week in Perth-a-Lumpa

Friday, November 13, 2009

OMG it's Friday the 13th!

OMG I can hardly believe I have nearly been in Perth-a-Lumpa for one whole week!

And now it's Friday the 13th I am like totally freaking out!

I am very excited as the weekend draws ever so near that I will be going on a road trip to Mandurah tonight and checking out wait for it, the Great Moscow Circus! Review coming soon!

Also on the weekend I have Northbridge in sights and next week Avenue Q opening night @ the Regal Theatre, Subiaco. Now if you remember my review of the Sydney season it was (what some would say) a wee bit harsh so let's see what happens this time around.

Well that's about if from me on this fine Friday the 13th, be safe, be careful and be nice to others on the freakiest of all Fridays.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Ladyhawke @ the Enmore Theatre - Sat 7 Sep 2009

Well one of my favourite new acts of 2008/2009 was live on stage at Sydney's Enmore, this being the second time I have seen her and this time with a capacity crowd!

She played through the majority of her album and also a few b-sides and covers in her encore.

And what a lesbian following, she had more dyke's on bikes than the Mardi Gras and more snazzy sisters than Stonewall on a Friday night. They pink dollar was very evident tonight!

She played a super set and left the crowd singing "stop playing with MY DELIRIUM". What a set, what a night! Go you good Kiwi in this year's ARIA awards, someone has to beat Jessica Maubouy!

Perth - Living in the Real Wild West - Day's Two & Three

I am into my fourth day in the lovely WA and yes it's raining WTF, the dreamy weather has all but gone.

Now my first and second days were spent with lovely runs around the waterside, working in our delightful Perth Office and spending way too much time in the local Woolworths stocking up on my daily salad needs.

I must say this city really has a chilled out and totally relaxed atmosphere, people just stroll into work, the streets are super clean and air is so much fresher than the East.

The time difference is still my total downfall with getting through a full episode of Home and Away is still a task as this is on at like 10pm EST. EEEEEHHHHH Can't stay up even to perv on the super hunky Lincoln Lewis! Who would have ever thought a fucking ugly footballer (not like Issac Luke) would have such a hot son, maybe his wife had an affair (that's my bet).

So living over in WA is really doing good things for my stress levels and I am about to have a road trip down the Coast to Mandurah to check out the Great Moscow Circus. All very exciting.

As the weekend approaches I am also going to risk my life by heading out into the WA Seedy underground of Northbridge and make my way back from Mandurah.

Perth is really winning me over with the sublime weather, friendly people and dreamy work men over here!

Stay tuned for more updates as they are coming soon!!!

Monday, November 9, 2009

Perth Days One & Two - Times are Changing

EEEHHHHH why does one part of one side of the country have daylight saving and the other plus QLD rejects this, EEEEHHHH it's affecting my sleep mo fuckers!

Well I had the most delicious flight to Perth including watching the great new Woody Allen Movie "Whatever Works":

FILM FREAK - Whatever Works

This movie is exactly they way I feel about Romance, jaded and extremely bitter!

This movie is simply terrific very well acted, great start, middle and finish, yes this movie is old school it starts the way it ends and it all works together quite beautifully. They don't do that too much these days!

I loved the story lines and the interesting outcomes in this movie. The plot was great and all the leads were magic!

I can't say enough good things about this film, but GO OUT and see it!

This does work, 4 stars!

Now back to my trip on QANTAS (Queer and Nasty Try Another Service) just joking, I would only ever fly this airline!

I landed in Perth and almost got the 4 hours travelling time back with this wacky time thing over here, I landed to Britney mayhem or lack of with her concerts getting the worst reviews I had seen since my last review.

I arrived at my delightful room and checked out the talent and the town. I do love Perth, it's like a small country town only with some good looking people thrown into the mix.

I passed out at 7pm as this would usually be 10pm (proper time) and woke up at Midnight, 3am, 4am and so on, until I thought bugger it let's have a run and check out Perth early in the morning.

And what a beautiful city along the water ways at 5:30am. The city really is magic, it's quiet, still and it almost seemed offensive to turn my IPOD up to 11 with the latest A-TRAK remix.

I had a great ring and then got ready for my first day in the Perth office which I loved!

The people over here really make the city, the people in Perth really are amazing!

Stay tuned for my Ladyhawke review from the Enmore Theatre Sydney and more tales as I do Australia all over.

Friday, November 6, 2009

PERTH HERE I COME DAILY UPDATES COMING SOON!

Top 5 @ 5 – Fri 6 November 2009

1.Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll – A Trak Club Mix Edit
2. Amanda Blank - DJ
3. Amanda Blank – Make It Take It/Might Like You Better and various other cuts from “I Love U”
4. Duck Sauce - Anyway
5. Matt Van Schie 'Saturday Night'

A Night Out @ NIDA – NIDA 3rd Year’s Showcase

I do love NIDA & fuck they are hot!

This was an exceptional year with some great acting, a bit of singing and some very attractive males & females on the stage.

NIDA continues to deliver the goods and again I think we will be seeing these young achievers on a stage near you soon!

Film Freak – Paranormal Activity

This film has grossed a outrageous amount of money overseas and was clearly made on a small budget with no major stars, 4 characters featured in the entire film and the movie was based in the one set for the entire film.

The Movie was engrossing and definitely kept my attention for the entire short running time. The lack of gore always helps with a horror movie as this now is just a cheap and quick fix to the horror genre.

I liked the suspense that build over the nights leading up to the big finale and also the fact the story and film almost looked real!

I rated this and found it better viewing than the film a lot of people are comparing this to the Blair Witch Project.

This rates 3 Paranormal stars.