Went to a couple of shows last night, Sat 14th. The first was Nick Rado's show, Brilliant, the boy form Titahi Bay has made good. Loved the story he told about chasing his one night stand all the way over to England, putting up with a shit job for three months in his quest to track her down, and then when he finally found her one night in a bar she informed him that she was now with another bloke and they were engaged to be married. Bugger. As a final appeal he described the dream she had always had to sing karaoke in a bar across the road from Flying Burrito Brothers and opposite the longest running branch of Peaches & Cream in NZ.
She replied, `no Nick that's your dream not mine.' And there he was on the stage of that very karaoke bar playing to a full house and living the dream, most excellent, very good Nick, very good.
The second show was Sarah Harpur's and it wasn't great. Maybe she was having an off night or something but she was struggling to get laughs. I have seen her many times in the last three years and she has progressed from the 7 p.m. slot up to the late night slot and she has always been very funny but like a lot of performers in this modern age a perfectly adequate sound system and a few lights are not enough. Sarah has decided to pad out her show with a newly acquired Mac Book and some pre prepared video's. Weird how you can add a multi-media component to your show and it all goes a bit flat. Need to work on that mate.
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