strangely enough, tonight at the Dog we sold a lot more tea than coffee!!

What an amazing night - the Dog audience, agumented with the Shiny Bum Singers & Brett, Charley & Judy, were in fine voice (& the acts on stage weren't bad, either).

Various Bums provided floor acts (including "Father of Shiny Bums" or Mudcatter Canberra Chris). Next Rhymin' Simon gave us 30 minutes of his wide repertoire, including Micca's "The Hash my Father Scored" learnt from Micca when he, JennyO, Callie, Chicky & other members of Solidarity Choir toured Engand & Ireland a couple of years ago. Simon also included his other party piece "Clancy of the Party Cone" (parody of the great Australian poem "Clancy of the Overflow"). He included my favourite song about 19th century shipwrecks & courage & a ghost!. And he finished his set with "With her head tucked underneath her arm", another ghost song. Fun as always.

The Bums did old favourites like "The Office Fridge" containing the immortal lines "The office fridge is full of slime/Nobody's cleaned it in our time" & The Mentoring Song (chorus "Save your arse, your arse/No matter what the bosses say/You will ignore anyway/Save your arse, your arse") & new things like the Rugby Song (the world cup final was on tonight!) & did a bit of packing down into a scrum (part of a scrum!) - so cute in suits & South Park ties!

Brett & Charley got the audience going with Dead Dog Cider (what a treat!) & sang various Roll & Go songs & kept the laughter (& singing going). Brett sang North West Passage, probably not heard here since the late, great Dave Alexander sang it.

Wonderful, wonderful night - it's only 1.20 now & I'm still wide awake, buzzing & listening to Outward Bound yet again.

sandra