The Moosehead Awards are celebrating the 25th Benefit and in doing so, we have put together a year-by-year retrospective of where it all started and where it is today. We have a keen eye on picking the stars of tomorrow as you will see, take a look through the years and you’ll be surprised just who has received a Moosehead in the past.
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Have you ever been touched inappropriately in a shop?
Cult Festival heros Sam Simmons and David Quirk have joined forces to create The Incident, an emotional roller-disco of the mind that breathes in and out like a dying carp. The hilarious rise and fall of a life-long relationship in one hour.
Stevl Shefn doesn't speak a word of English in this manic, deadpan, conforting, humane and hilarious character comedy. One punchline, two voices, multiple interpretations from two new orginal clowns. RAW Comedy Winner.
Adrian had it all. A bright future, an exceptional women, great friends...then the wheels fell off. A hilarious romp through a life-threatening illness and mind-bending psychosis. Be inspired by the can do attitude and never say die, twice! When you have a less than 2% chance of survival how do you keep your sense of humour?
Geek aficianado and sometime carny, Asher Treleaven (Wild Duck and Book Club UK) returns with a new show about ornate nonsense and extravagant camp kook. A show that just may open the door to new unimagined worlds.
Think you're funny? Reckon you could prove it in a court of law? Award-winning comedy writer Dave Bloustien had to do just that. A stand up of trial and errors, nightmare gigs and the things we do for cash.
A comedy and music adventure into the life of a caravan park. Wes grew up in a caravan park surrounded by a kaleiedoscope of characters. With completely original music and his "wicked sense of comic timing" (The Age), Kiosk is guaranteed to be the best holiday you have ever had!
An almost entirely aural comedy experience. Written and conceived by Lou Sanz, this is the story of a women about whom we know very little. We invite you to the first ever retrospective of her trauma, by travelling through the crap from her life.
Take the music of Disney, the drama of Lord of the Rings, and the emotion of Les Miserables...then blindfold them, beat them, regain their trust, beat them again, and you might end up with something resembling Sammy J in the Forrest of Dreams. It's a musical. For adults. With puppets.
For 42 years The Axis of Awesome was the world's greatest band. Like all great musical artists - The Beatles, Madonna, Chingy - they adapted their style for each new generation of music lovers. From the 60s to the 90s, from disco to emo, the Axis made their mark on musical history. The Axis of Awesome are Jordan Raskopoulos, Benny Davis and Lee Naimo.
Amelia Jane Hunter and Hannah Gadsby present Meat the Musical. Inseparable identical twins, Kaye and Berv, inherit the family butchery 'Mountains of Meat', a little shop of big horrors with carcasses in the cloest and a prize-winning sausage. Now some dodgy health and safety standards threaten to divide the twins forever. Do they have the guts to go all the way for blood?
The Jinglists is the new show from the sublimely surreal duo that brought you A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished (2006 MICF Best Newcomer Nominees). Reclusive jingle-writers, Loman and Leigh, live and work in a strangely dysfunctional state of inter-dependency and have not left their apartment in years. Mad-scientists of the jingle world, crooning crippled emotions to catchy melodies. But both work and friendship are tested when Love walks in the door.
Three different shows presented across the festival. Show 1: Justin believes that Melbourne is the bestest city in world. What happend when he moved her and how he fell in love. Show 2: Have you ever laughed at inappropriate moments? Just has, constantly. But while laughter isn't always the best medicine, it sure can help you cheat death. Show 3: Returning home to receive a letter from a time capsule, Justin comes face-to-face with this mum, a gril who was a clown and a long-lost friend.
It's the Wizard of Oz meets Silence of the Lambs! Join Alice Bice in a dark journey of sel-discovery as she stumbles across all Dorothy's friends in the land of Bice. The Wizard of Oz combines live performance and animation played by special guests comics. There's no place like home...or this show.
Who is Keith Flipp? He's Amelia Jane Hunter and, for the first 27 years, he's been hidden away in a one-horse, three-church town. See the vanishing twin return to centre stage and make Amelia the altar for this irrepressible ego. After three days, fish and family stick! You're heard about the Boy from Oz...now see the girl from Belkendowns Flat!
Two comedians, one drummer and an actor. Not exactly the result Richard's Dad was hoping for from his four sons. Especially considering the McKenzies have served in two World Wards, Vietname and Korea. Join Richard as he explores his family's history of men in the Armed Forces and find out weather you really have to serve to be of service.
Fifteen-year old Kathy has packed her best pair of corduroy pants and her graphing calculator (TI-83). She's ready for maths camp. But is she ready to talk to boys? Learning about boys and complex numbers at the same time isn't easy. Can Kathy solve the equations in terms of love...or are there just too many variables?
As a six-year-old Damian, dual Barry Award nominee, earnt 20c by dropping his pants in front of the baker and showing him his scars. He has never outgrown the habit. Join Damian in the infertility clinic as he pulls down his pants one more time to reveal his Spaznuts.
After growing up with TV, studying it at university and working behind the scenes, Gavin Baskerville reveals the truth behind the plywood sets of network television.
This is the ultimate TV reality show.
Learn how network decisions are made and why there's never anything good on. From how ratings work to why the commercials seem so damn loud, Gavin explains it all with the help of his interactive offsider “Stevie the TV”.
Rebecca has reached the pinnacle of international improvising excellence, but a solo impro show? Anyone who knows anything about impro knows you can't do it by yourself. Rebecca's show is the ultimate challenge. We reckon if anyone can do it, Rebecca can.
Tanya Losanno is obsessed with collecting other people's trophies. After all, why achieve when you can buy other people's achievements? She has a special releationship with each and every one; she loves them like family. A celebration of failure.
Damian Clark reveals the incredible true story of the night he was captured by a shotgun-wielding bandit and locked in a cupboard. Don't miss one of Australia's best young comedians in his biggest adventure yet.
Wearing little but silver Y-fronts, i-pod codpiece and agitated grin, Krisztian Bagin is a cyborg clown. Using newsreel vision and 1960s dream-pop to build a portable universe of space-age faith. The impression is of a disturbing retro-future: we are pessimists looking back at an optimist looking forwards.
A good old-fashioned concert after tea, with the friends and family, your aunty the nun playing the piano and a lamb roast cooking in the background…
Steven Promise aka Sam Simmons, is a sad and sorry singer-songwriter who works in a bank call centre. He is attempting to get his songs out to the people by putting them on hold and singing in place of playing a recording of Fur Elise But his creativity is thwarted by his sinister boss (Benjamin McNair), and, ultimately, his own lack of talent, sanity and drive.
Sydney comedian and improviser John Knowles grew up as the only nerd-child of a real live cowboy dad - this is his (true) story.
Aussie Rules is a man's world. But behind every gritty defender or star full forward there lurks a league of silent champions - "the girlfriends" - the women who seem to only be defined by the success of their boyfriend, or the success of their latest outfit. But like any other women they have dreams of their own, it just so happens that sometimes these dreams involve going to football's night of nights - the Brownlow. Enter Footy Chicks - Fran Johnston and Jane Frayne. From beanies to lipgloss and back again - this is a story about friendship; soul searching; false fingernails and lots of other footy stuff.
The story of a teenage boy with no friends and a fertile imagination trying to get a date for the school social.
Craig Barfoot and Phil Cantone. Seemingly from the "boys trapped in men's bodies" school, the duo combine characters, ludicrous plots and naive logic into a fast-paced show. Sketch comedy with asides aplenty. Expect silliness, high spirits and high jinks.
She's been Sassy, she's been Shame, she's been a little Overexposed and now Kim Hope is about to Sing Your Arse Off! Following the adventure of a lifetime with her sister - attempting to karaoke their way across the USA, Kim returns with a honest and hilarious tale of survival and spontaneity.
Handpicked by industry guru's - Stephen Hall and Michael Ward are now playing in their brand new show I Said, I Said. Stephen and Michael bring you Phineas and Crispin Witt - old time Vaudeville's last survivors in their limp down Memory Lane.
Two mates win a competition on a lifestyle program. The prize - if they can live in a house for a year without having any outside contact, they get to keep the house. But aside from their own ability to self-destruct the network will do everything in their power to ensure they don’t win.
Gerard McCulloch has written a whole show dissecting that most traditional of all jokes, where an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman get up to all sorts of punchline-worthy exploits. The show charts the success of the trio (all of whom McCulloch plays), who were brought together thanks to a freak accident involving a fly in the Scotsman's pint.
If comedy is the new rock and roll then these guys are it. Rockothello - a bloody tradegy.
It's 1949...the war's over and we won - so let's be deliriously happy. Once upon a time, a bold, surreal and startingly innovative programme challenged the complacency of the post-war world...until the broadcast authorities found out about it. It was killed and buried so effciently that it has remained virtually unknown...until now. The Neville Chamberlain Show feature rare gems from the Golden Age of Radio will be recreated live on stage. Starring - Tim Harris, Linda Haggar, Andrea Powell, Alan Brough and musical director - John Fleming.
Doreen Starr is marrying Mike Munro. No, Really. Cliff Richard is her bridesmaid. It's ture. And her family and friends and coming...maybe... Alright, Doreen is a delusional stalker. She has a long history of terrorising Australia's minor celebrities. The list of thoese she has alarmed reads like a TV Week Logie lift-out, minus the frocks and Tony Bartuccio dancers.
It's a musical, It's a physical comedy, It's heavily character base, it's NOT stand up, it's filmic, it's high octane, fast paced, action packed theatre. It's big and bad and full of guns and bad asses and gold chains. It's got crimes and afros and a preacher man. It's got a Wetern type story in there, somewhere - a lonely complex hero, Mexican Banditos, hangings, posses, whores, bar room brawls, horse chases, shefiffs, vendettas, tumberweeds, beady stares, stubble, cattle rustling, cow pokin, beans, whisky, grits, and far to mcuh tequlia.
The 4 Noels are - Jesse Griffin, James Pratt and John Forman.
The Madness Tour is based on the life of 1998 Ian Stephenson a.k.a Crazy E. Between 1993 and 1995, Crazy E had 8 admissions to psychiatric hospitals, five to Larundal, three to Heatherton and a brief one-night stay at Mont Park. Before, during and after his admissions Crazy # worked as a stand up comic....in fact, on one occasion he was released from hospital because he had a gig at the Star and Garter. This show is tell-all about those eight admissions, what was done, said and the results.
Tragedy. What is it? The surgical horrors that walk around claming to be Danni Minogue? Losing someone you love? That song by the Bee-Gees? Tick all of the above and then tick the box marke Adam Richard.
VM II is a sneaky peak into that age old phenomenon, the religious cult - a danger of humanity, or just a really effective means of keeping freaks off the streets? As we career towards the next millennium we find everybody's looking for answers. VM II will quesetion the answers provided by one particular group. The somewhat humorously titled Magnificant Meat Movement has created a firm foot hold in Rurual Queensland with it's leader Debra Geleisky's particular brand of smock wearing, curse-casting, virgin seeing Catholicisim. Meshel's been there and has the footage.
Edinburgh 1886. Doctor Alexander Buchanan stands at the pinnacle of the 19th century science and could fall off any minute.
Denise Scott in Life of The Party. She wanted to feel sexy...just once before she died.