This is a clip from a show we did at the South Melbourne Town Hall, in the Old Council Chambers, in July 2011. It was at the end of a long series of live shows and a rare hook up with Mark Fitzgibbon on piano. We like to play in different rooms. This was a show as part of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival, an annual event curated by a couple of great guys who used to run the Butterfly Club, which is a cute room right next door to this Town Hall. We did a few "narrative type shows there. Hour long series of songs around a theme and a story. All my songs to start with. "Point Blank" was me, Clare on vibes and Mark on the stand up piano there. No mic, just singing into the tiny room.
Then we did a sequel "live in hell" which had me, Clare on a small drum kit, Stu Thomas on a fuzz bass through a tiny amp and Stuart Perera on nylon string guitar. That had songs on a them , my own and covers of Roxy Music, the Fall, Elvis and the Doors.
Then we did "MC Bits" which was me on guitar and singing and Mark Fitzzgibbon on piano. Songs of mine and others by Suicide, Bert Jansch, Hoagy Carmichael, Kevin Ayers and Robyn Hitchcock. Oh, and run through "the blind mans penis" by John Trubee.We did these mainly at the Butterfly Club but also at the Adelaide Festival theatre and the Sydney Opera House. FRom 2007-2010.
This show was just us bringing our rock songs into a different environment. Playing very quietly. Not many people came. We enjoyed ourselves greatly. You have to do different things if you're a musician.
Gina Robertson filmed it and the sound is great, because of the volume we are playing at.
Mark is now in Shanghai where he has been playing in a jazz band five nights a week at the same hotel since this performance happened.
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