Tuesday night is student comedy night and for the princely sum of 5 quid you get two standups and a rowdy semi-scottish crowd. We were lucky enough to see Craig Campbell, a hugely funny canadian whose schtick largely revolves around taking the mickey out of canadians and telling odd stories. He did well over an hour of stuff and seemed like he could have gone for hours more except that our mouths were tired from the grinning (seriously!). A quick paraphrase on listening to scottish: "part conversation, part puzzle... with a chance of a headbutt". Definately see him if he is melbourne for the comedy fest next year.Last night, not so lucky. We go see Xavier Rudd (no relation to Kev!) who sounds ok on his albums but in person turns out to be a right knob. He's some tips Xavier, if you don't want to make us hate you then don't:
- start your gig at 8pm
- surround yourself by a million pieces of percussion and 3 three digeridoos then only play only a tiny fraction
- don't 'alter your state of mind' before the gig so that you are blissing out on playing the same riff (sometimes just a sustained note!) for 5 minutes while the crowd sway around confused
- don't play 90% instrumental when your albums are vocal
- don't put a massive aboriginal flag on the stage in Edinburgh when you're a white bottle blonde Aussie from Torquay living in Vancouver. You posted 1 solitary thing on your "indigenous blog" more than a year ago...
- don't stop the instruments to deliver the following lyrics in a heartfelt way "all we need, is love and peace, and what falls from the trees"
- don't put a big buddha statue on a little table next to you and insist on bowing to everyone with your hands clasped after the gig! we don't care that you think you're a buddhist!
