{"id":279,"date":"2010-03-24T10:28:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T23:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-03-28T08:06:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T21:06:43","slug":"april-comedy-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"April \/ Comedy \/ Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/users.on.net\/~dmccann\/images\/comfest2010.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Comedy Festival 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the <b>Sydney Comedy Festival<\/b> for 2010 is coming up, it&#8217;s on 19th April &#8211; 9th May, with a heap of international, national and local comedic performers, at various venues around Sydney. Go here for more info:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au\">http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joanne and I are going to see these guy&#8217;s stand-up shows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au\/indexphpoptioncomeventlistavieweventlist\/details\/209-jeremy-hotz\"><b>Jeremy Hotz<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au\/indexphpoptioncomeventlistavieweventlist\/details\/193-eddie-ifft-things-i-shouldnt-have-said\"><b>Eddie Ifft<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au\/indexphpoptioncomeventlistavieweventlist\/details\/255-russell-kane-human-dressage\"><b>Russell Kane<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au\/indexphpoptioncomeventlistavieweventlist\/details\/187-tom-green\"><b>Tom Green<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen Jeremy and Eddie a couple of times, and always enjoy their show, very different styles, both very funny. I&#8217;m scared and exited about seeing Tom Green for the first time live, we&#8217;ve got front row seats. Russell we saw recently on a Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala TV show and thought he was very funny, keen to check him out live. Hoping <b>Arj Barker<\/b> announces some shows soon. Might see if we can get to one of the <b>Cracker Night<\/b> events too.<\/p>\n<p>Not many of our friends seem to share our enthusiasm for live stand-up comedians, but we love it, laughing till we hurt, great stress relief.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/users.on.net\/~dmccann\/images\/redshape.jpg\" alt=\"Redshape\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April is going to be a crazy busy month for us, on top of those comedic outings, music wise we&#8217;re also going out to see <b>Seth Troxler<\/b>, <b>Agoria<\/b>, and <b>Redshape<\/b> [Live]. If <b>Chymera<\/b> wasn&#8217;t on the same night as <b>Agoria<\/b> we would probably go to see him too. <\/p>\n<p><strike><b>Derrick May<\/b> is also coming to Australia in April, but, is only playing one gig <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthemix.com.au\/whatson\/event\/58516\/ALCHEMY_feat_Derrick_May_Groove_Assassin_more\">Alchemy<\/a> in Melbourne, annoyed about that, keen to see him play again.<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>*UPDATE* Just announced! <b>Derrick May<\/b> (5 Hour Set) @ Picnic Presents&#8230; &#8211; 202 : Sunday 18th April (4pm-Midnight)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Detroit techno, last night <b>Claude Young<\/b> announced he&#8217;s also playing in Australia in April at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everypicturetellsastory.com.au\/\">Every Picture Tells A Story<\/a>, but looks like he&#8217;s not playing anywhere else, and it&#8217;s a super short visit downunder, damn!<\/p>\n<p>There are heaps of other tech-house internationals on in April too, but I&#8217;m going to be a lot more selective as to who I see this year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also having an 80&#8217;s flash back in April, going to see <b>Tears For Fears<\/b> and <b>Spandau Ballet<\/b> together live in concert. <\/p>\n<p>May starts off busy with the Creamfields festival at the Entertainment Quarter on the 1st with some tasty old-school techno names: <b>Dave Clarke<\/b>, <b>Steve Rachmad<\/b>, <b>Green Velvet<\/b> plus <b>Joris Voorn<\/b> and a whole heap <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creamfields.com.au\/\">more<\/a>. Hoping for a dedicated techno area to keep &#8216;that&#8217; crowd well away.<\/p>\n<p>I think after all this, we&#8217;ll be content to stay home for months and save $ for our next Europe trip later this year, looking forward to getting crazy with our Sydney friends living in Berlin and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Sydney Comedy Festival for 2010 is coming up, it&#8217;s on 19th April &#8211; 9th May, with a heap of international, national and local comedic performers, at various venues around Sydney. Go here for more info: http:\/\/www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au Joanne and I are going to see these guy&#8217;s stand-up shows: Jeremy Hotz Eddie Ifft Russell Kane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}