Shaolin Punk

A Record or an OBE stars Rob Lloyd and Ben McKenzie can be seen in gigs around Melbourne in the next few weeks! Follow the links for more details.

• Good Fridays with The Crew! - yes, Melbourne impro comedy troupe The Crew are back with an all-new weekly show on Friday nights at the Princes Entertainment Centre! The line-up for the next couple of nights is yet to be confirmed, but no doubt both Rob Lloyd and Ben McKenzie will make an appearance during the coming weeks. Starts November 2nd.
• A Minor Collection of Unnatural History - a new exhibition from the collective Omnific Assembly, this “minor collection” is a menagerie of monsters. The exhibition opens at Off the Kerb Gallery in Fitzroy on Friday, November 2nd, and will be opened by Ben McKenzie.
• Generation Y Should iBother - a political comedy show for the generation that knows only the Howard government, presented by Adam McKenzie and Harley Breen with performances from Tom Gleeson, Wayne Deakin, Richard Marsland and comedy troupe The Hound of The Baskervilles (featuring Rob Lloyd). It’s on Sunday, November 4th at 5pm at Dante’s in Fitzroy; find out more at the event’s Facebook entry.

Watch this space for more news of future appearances by Shaolin Punk alumni, as well as news of our upcoming Adelaide Fringe season of A Record or an OBE.

The Goodies Rule - OK!, the international official Goodies fan club, have included in the latest edition of their newsletter (The Goodies Fan Club Clarion and Globe, 143) a review of A Record or an OBE. Says Melbourne correspondent and newsletter editor Brett Allender, “the dialogue, the delivery and the character personifications made their roles seem crystal clear and authentic … plenty of flashes of Goodies-inspired humour and silliness which had the audience thoroughly engrossed”. If you’re not a member of the club, then why not join? Membership is free!

At the Melbourne Fringe awards announced last night, A Record or an OBE was highly commended by the judges for the Comedy category! In addition, Caz Reitop’s Dirty Secrets, home to both OBE and Nicky Talacko’s excellent Cinder-effin-rella, took home the award for Best Venue! Congratulations to Zac and all the crew at Dirty Secrets; you really deserved this.

Many friends of Shaolin Punk also won awards, so congratulations to Mathew Kenneally (Best Comedy for Mathew Kenneally for Parliament), Adam J. Cass (Melbourne Dramatists Emerging Writers Award for I Love You, Bro), Vanessa Baylen (Best Special Event for Death By Chocolate) and all the other Fringe participants this year. I hope you all had a great festival!

Yes, tonight is the final Melbourne Fringe season performance of A Record or an OBE. We hope you can make it if you haven’t seen the show yet! Thanks to everyone who’s come along this season.

Yes, tonight is the halfway mark for our brief Melbourne Fringe run of A Record or an OBE, and we’ve had a great response so far. If you’ve seen the show, we’d love to hear your feedback; feel free to comment here on the news blog, or to email me personally at ben@shaolinpunk.net.

If you haven’t come yet, remember we only have a limited number of seats, so if you don’t want to miss out be sure to book your tickets in advance through the Fringe!