Lock up your children, Al's Music Rant is coming!

 

See that dood up there, the one with the (presumably wireless) mic, acoustic guitar, finger deck goggles and craftily placed treble clef? Well he is none other than the creator and curator of the humble blog you're now perusing. And he's the one who'll be entertaining the hackles out of you as part of the Melbourne Fringe festival.  Ok now play this tune before you keep reading, and try to keep up, it's a bit wordy...

	Dj Shadow - Outsider Intro .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Wow, pretty epic huh? who is that sexy, raspy English voice? Ahhh see you're getting distracted already. Now the show probably won't be as grandiose as this tune is suggesting, but it will be as funny as this tune is epic.

The show will be a mixture of comedy and music, but that's at a very basic level.
It's an hour-long faux-presentation on music where anything (and everything) can be made a target, myself included. Much like the blog, it'll cram in a ton of content but always with the aim to be informative, passionate, and funny.
There'll be all sorts of humour to be had, character stuff, sketch stuff, songs, dancing, talking, iPod quizzes, impressions, silliness, pithy observations, bizarre reworkings, and an easel named Joni.

Guess that does sound pretty epic after all...

Now here's the deets, peeps - there are six shows for the season:

Wed 29 Sep (Preview tix)

Thurs 30 Sep

Fri 1 Oct

Sat 2 Oct

Wed 6 Oct (2 for 1 tix)

Fri 8 Oct

@ The Glasshouse, 51 Gipps St, Collingwood

You can book, pay and print your tickets online at The Fringe Website.

Or you can follow my tweets to get some sneaky previews of what you might get from the show.

Anyway you cut it, it's gonna be sweet.

Now for the regular readers, be sure to check out the last post for sweet interview with the wonderful Kimbra.

And while we're at it, here's a sweet remix of Kimbra's excellent Settle Down from the NY minimalist proudcer Penguin Prison.

Just picture the vocal loops paired with some Club happy, toe-tapping rhythms and you've got the idea - or better yet, have a listen for yerself:

Kimbra - Settle Down (Penguin Prison Remix)

So, in summary, come to the show - read the blog - live a happy life.

See you at the Glasshouse.

Settle Down, won't you...

OK, it's less than fourteen days/two weeks/336 hours until this humble blog shambles to life onstage as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. So it's about damn time I let on about what to expect, since there's no logic or rhyme or reason to these things, I'll just start splurging - throwing a bunch of words and phrases at you and see if they'll stick. Hopefully you can consider this the 'piquing of interest' variety of preview as opposed to 'spoilers ahead.'

• Finger Deck Goggles
• Dancing (of a riddick nature)
• Paul Simon, obviously
• Bill Bailey-esque stage set-up 
• Prince
• Songs, funny ones, not of a Flight of a Conchords parodic ilk, nor Sammy J lyrical excellence, or the high antics of Anyone For Tennis?, but hopefully giggle-some none the less.
• High-brow lyrical quotes
• More Prince
• Sleevefaces
• This
• Impersonations of singers 
• Masturbation
• Genre Analyses (yeah baby, plural)
• And oh yeah, Prince

There are six shows:
Wed 29 Sep (Preview tix)
Thurs 30 Sep
Fri 1 Oct
Sat 2 Oct
Wed 6 Oct (2 for 1 tix)
Fri 8 Oct
@ The Glasshouse, 51 Gipps St, Collingwood

So go ahead and point your browser here for details and book your tix online. 

And while you're there, Ihighly recommend getting along to the following shows:

Dr. Professor Neal Portenza's Interactive Goat Hour (and his amazing website)

OC/DC

The Hermitude of Angus, Ecstatic

Postcards From The Abyss

Booked a ticket? Good, we now return to our regular programming.

I've been sitting on this one for a while now, but since the buzz is (finally) starting to build for the wonderful soul-popster Kimbra, I thought I'd add my discerning voice to the rabble. Following is an interview I conducted waaaaaaay back in March. A lengthy chat that resulted in some music biography and press release material you'll see dotted about the interwebz, but since Kimbra's debut is on the cusp of public release, it still seems timely and relevant. But first, a primer: