Singer, songwriter & Eurovision reject. Pre-order ‘BROAD’ & ‘The Passion of Saint Nicholas’ albums! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Age.
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Soft launch - activated!
'BROAD' - 8 songs from
@micomfestival
2 x award-nominated show w full band
'The Passion of Saint Nicholas' 8 tracks (5 songs, and the 3 instrumentals) from this year's show, probs the fastest I've ever got a show album out.
I met Cal Wilson at Prince Patrick 20 years ago, Scott Brennan introduced us when he was a fledgling stand up and I still thought I had an acting career. I never thought I’d be bringing her onstage year after year at Upfront Gala… (1/2)
Mates their socials are:
IG
TikTok
I honestly haven’t heard their music, I just resonated hard with this and thought it was hilarious. I dug the VIBEZ.
@PatrickLenton
It’s also about sexism / infantilising terminology though. In cis het relationships, boy/girlfriend sounds like teens to me, & removing gender identifiers is a linguistic step to neutralising gendered language that has A TONNE OF BAGGAGE. Weird complaint for this person to have.
Every picture I’ve seen of Cal in the last three days makes me simultaneously really happy to see Cal’s face and heartbroken we don’t get to see her again.
…she must have just moved to Melbourne, and she was bloody great back then too.
I think Cal Wilson not only saw the best in people, I think people really showed their best selves to her too, because that was what she inspired in everyone she encountered.
Oh noes da Fweewdumb Party’s gonna loooose - sorry I couldn’t be in my electorate to celebrate but I’m up in QLD doing MELT Comedy Gala, you hideous shower of religious bigots.
#VicVotes2022
If you’re new here, hi, my dad just died.
Here’s he is with the “soft reboot” family (3 youngest out of 7). Also he was the 1st person who told me I could sing. He turned to me in mass at Our Lady of Fatima in Wagga and said “Our Bean has a voice on her”.
And I have his name.
@vanbadham
Anyone who thinks class isn’t an issue in access to the arts hasn’t been paying attention for the last century or more. My high school shoved arts off the table for a lot of kids in a gov-fuelled VCE push to get “girls in maths and science”.
👇🏻THIS IS HAPPENING IN MELBOURNE NOW. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE . My Place bigots might seem like loopy little losers to most, but the hateful pedo fantasies they proliferate on Telegram are having real world effects on performers in my industry & LGBTIQA+ families / allies.
SovCit psycho bigots from My Place threatened a children’s event with colouring in, egg painting and games. Threatening stalking and vigilante action against performers, they claimed to have a VicRoads contact who could get them home addresses.
Ok I am mere minutes into
#Deadloch
and I am already squealing at
@ninaoyama
being GREAT AND ADORABLE. And that’s just ONE great cast member - JUST ONE.
My uncle Father Peter Quinn died last night, age 92. He was a hugely popular Catholic priest in the Kerang/Shepparton areas for years. My memories of him were an extremely tall, gentle man with the most beautiful, deep melodic speaking voice I have ever heard.
@annaspargoryan
Well I’ll never forget my extremely mass-twice-a-week Catholic mother exclaiming “NOBODY likes Pell!!” when she got a bit tipsy at a family party years ago.
Whatever happens with voting, I discovered
@Let3Mrle
this
#Eurovision
& given how much horrible bigoted shit has been happening in Melbourne, a song like
#Mama
ŠČ - simultaneously angry & very silly and funny - is exactly what I needed. 🚜🫡🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#Eurovision2023
#SBSEurovision
@angijones
Bouquet for this WILD recast of Tom’s tweet. Oh btw do I need show my uterus credentials to not be dismissed like ANY dude who reasonably points out the literal identifiable neo-nazis clearly on display yesterday?
Embarrassing. So embarrassing.
My big brother Nick would have turned 50 today. Please enjoy this mecha 1990s picture which I absolutely would have trotted out at The-Birthday-That-Never-Was.
He’d been ailing for ages, he got COVID in hospital & survived. It wasn’t sudden, in case any ghoul cookers slide in.
I’m not asking for condolences, I wanted to write down those strong memories of my uncle. Because how often to you long to hear a voice again. His was great.
Melbourne has a legit housing crisis, we really don’t care if you sadsacks sook about moving interstate because of the election results.
Honestly, it’s probably gonna be your most valuable contribution to the wider community you claim to be ‘fighting’ for.
#VicVotes2022
First country to give women the vote. And the late Georgina Beyer MNZM was the world’s first openly transgender mayor AND world’s first openly transgender member of parliament.
Dunno why people listen to someone like KJK she’s so ill-informed. 🤷♀️
IT’S HAPPENING. For the first time in 18 years, I am chuffed to be bringing an original songwriting cabaret of mine to
@AdelaideCabaret
- a festival I am almost as old as (I am 22 years old and you can’t prove me wrong). Thanks SO MUCH ACF!!
Tickets:
The first celebrity I ever met.
St George Dragon. Visited our primary school in 1982. I'd never met anyone so famous. That Julie Anthony bloody didn't show, though, the CHEEK.
What?? TWO award nominations in 2022??? That were announced AFTER my run was over?????? Well… LUCKY YOU, you can see ‘BROAD’ in
@micomfestival
2023 for a limited 10-23 April run at an extremely civilised time:
Australia’s
@Voyagerau
absolutely destroyed
#Eurovision
semi-final 2 with a powerful rock anthem that PERFECTLY represents the euphoria of finding a great car park spot when you’re running late for the gig.
YOU BLUDDY DID IT.
#SBSEurovision
#EUROVISION2023
I just spent three days editing a live version of my show and now I hate my hideous physical being so much I am determined to never be seen by human eyes again.
This means I can only do podcasts. And albums. Or write prose. Or knit.
I am as exhausted & furious about yesterday in Melbourne as anyone decent should be. I RT people who are well versed in these dark rumblings. They say it better than I can. I know there are also people who struggle with TLs of hate, even when it’s decrying hate. Here’s my dog:
RANDOM rec for
@micomfestival
- I saw this in
@melbournefringe
, I *really* liked it. Unlike anything I'd seen, it IS on tonight (Mon 10pm at Motley Bauhaus). It's hard to describe but I liked it!! Embrace the fringe artists. They push where others sit.
If you’re having A TIME at
#micf
(it feels more Sisyphean than usual), my advice is see stuff that excites YOU. I’m a heady combo of industry-kryptonite - musical/veteran/female/afab drag comedian, but w MANY AWARD NOMS.
I’m keeping it together by seeing weird shows/people I ❤️
Geyer was one of the greatest, and look at her talking about how hard it was to get a foothold, to get attention for work, to have to keep slogging every album/show. A great singer (and if anyone makes a biopic just save time and cast
@virginia_gay
)
Say what you will about Molly Meldrum and Countdown but there is a generation of Australians who got to know Renee Geyer because Molly took her into every living room on a Sunday night and championed her music. As she acknowledges here.
I LOVE THIS. Skirt by Isis Avis Loren. For YEARS I wanted a top made that would be good for Xmas. This year I gave up looking & tried to make something myself (I do NOT sew).I KNOW it’s simple but it WORKS. I even adjusted the pattern & improvised the trim. I AM BEAUTIF-YULE 🎄
Twitter engagement sucks. I rarely even get a nibble from many colleagues/friends - I AM SO BOODIFOOL & ACCUMPERLISHED.
Also no band for me this year. I’m gonna write about it. More than a decade of hard work creating a great, fun event.
But I’ll probz post to IG.
$20 Preview
Monday 10 April, 6:30pm, Trades Hall
Passes welcome, you WILL get in
7 x award-noms
2 x 5 star reviews
1 x 4 star review
0 x publicity pics/interviews
I put on extra shows last year, but looks like only word of mouth will save me now.
@JeremyPoxon
There’s zero provision for under-employed people, you are absolutely expected to apply for FT that you know you can’t do bc you have other work or duties, it’s so broken. I hate it. Hate it. Hate it.
Absolutely ridiculous group of incredible people to find myself in a photo with (in 2017 for Upfront Gala, pic from TS Publicity)
IMPOSTER SYNDROME IS STRONG
Btw I got to bring Bill with me to the motel at Fish Creek and I tell you what…it was lucky there was a double bed AND a single bed in the room bc look at this nonsense:
Hey
@KirstyWebeck
I’m talking to a mate of my sister-in-law’s who was all “OMG you’re doing
@micomfestival
I have tickets to Hickey and Kirsty and Cal!!” - SHE DIDN’T EVEN FOLLOW ME ON IG harrumph!! She knew all about your KNEE though.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Lilithia
It's so nice to read a review of BROAD from someone that understood how much piss I was taking of myself and my genre, and that piss-take can be full of love and positivity as well.
Have you booked for ‘BROAD’? I open MON 6:30PM TRADES HALL and a LOT of people said they wish they’d caught it last year.
Here’s some stuff more famous people than me (not hard) said about BROAD last year.
#micf
Tickets:
Starting to see people presuming a man made this, rather than being the rural motel whimsy of an under-utilised perimenopausal cabaret artist. HOW ON BRAND, WORLD.
If The Weekly pilfers my mem (sic) I will be asking for that dollar they owe me…
Open tomorrow in
#adlfringe
BROAD $20 preview 2NITE. Disgusting amount of seats free considering I am a 40+ award-nominee, but that’s this bloody industry, hey. I’m still really good at my job.
#MICF
Tix:
Here’s the BROAD dress 11 years apart (1st season of BROAD & 2011 Gibbo win):
ARTISTS - I have media in, way too many seats unsold & I’m a bit sick so if anyone was thinking of coming, there is a tonne of room and only word of mouth will save me and this VERY AWARD-NOMINATED SHOW that hasn’t had press/production assistance:
‘BROAD’ got a 2023
#micf
review - only 5 shows left, a belter of a show in a great room at Trades. Nominee - 2022 Most Outstanding Show
Nominee - 2022 Golden Gibbo Award (my 3rd Gibbo nom so you are in safe hands).
Why would you miss this??
Full review:
LAST ONE - last Saturday's extra show was full, and people are clamouring for the songs to be recorded, so I've squeezed in a cheeky 4:15pm this Saturday.
LAST ONE!
It'll help me get back in the studio!
Same venue! ON SALE NOW!
I’m confident every person going “but why didn’t they do/say more” today 100% has someone close to them who knows 1st hand why reporting / going public doesn’t happen. Someone who got looked in the eye, and got a shrug from an authority, leaving them feeling helpless and used.
IT’S MY YEAR, KITTENS (baby rabbits are kittens). Born in 1975, and the last Rabbit year I won a Gibbo Award and I thought EVERYTHING WAS GONNA CHANGE.
…
Oh well FOURTH TIME LUCKY. 🐇
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Age
“An endlessly energetic set stacked with stupendous original songs, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry and wonder why Quinn hasn’t conquered Broadway yet.”
I close Sunday.
Tix:
Supported by the
#cityofmelbourne
Arts Grants
#micf
Buy tix to Aunty Gerry's
@micomfestival
show bc she just received her car insurance bill & she doesn't have enough kidneys to sell in order to pay it:
🎥 (studio)
@evanms
🎥 (live) Krzysztof Globisziof at
@houseofoz2022
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✂️🖥️ Me
🎶 My song