After a MASSIVE year of:

Monthly Last Tuesdays
Comedy Festival Club spots
Solo shows
Federation Square Adventures
Fringe Clubs
Kid’s Shows
Grant Applications
Failed Grant Applications
Edinburgh Festivals
Tears (Bron)
And moustaches (Rich and Bron)

We’ve come to the end. But never fear! There will be more Last Tuesday awesomeness in 2010!

Starting with The Last Tuesday Society Australia Day Spectacular on the 26th of January!

Hosted at the 25A warehouse in Northcote it will be an afternoon of sausage sizzles, cold tinnies and live music, followed by an evening of performances by the top notch, tip top, crème de la crème of the underground Melbourne arts scene.

More details to follow!

Keep your eyes out for us in March and April as we take over the Hi Fi Bar on Tuesdays during the comedy festival, presenting all of the weird and wonderful artists of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

And then again in May as we present our Next Wave Festival show ‘Comfort Zone’ at the theatre restaurant ‘Witches in Britches!’

Comfort Zone will feature artists such as The List Operators, The Suitcase Royale, The Safari Team, Claudia O’Doherty, Thomas Henning and The Black Lung Whaling Firm, Telia Nevile, Bron Batten, Richard Higgins, Ed Gould, Max Milne, Simonce Page Jones, Forty Forty Home and Karina Smith.

All of our artists will be stepping out of their comfort zones and performing in the opposite of their usual disciplines. Musicians doing stand up! Visual artists doing theatre! Dancers talking! It’s going to be madness!

Thankyou all for your love and support in 2009- bring on 2010!

Bron and Rich xx

The silly season is almost upon us boys and girls, and what better way to kick it off than at The Last Tuesday Society?

We don't know what that meant either...screw it-

After the rollicking success of last year, The Last Tuesday is thrilled to present it’s Second Annual Christmas Special.

Remember how you came to the last one and couldn't see anything? Don't worry we've moved to a bigger goddamn venue! The awesome Order of Melbourne! And they are putting on drink special just for us! Ho freaking ho!

Featuring artists such as Miles O’Neil from The Suitcase Royale, The List Operators, Vigilantelope, Bron Batten, Anna Pocket Rocket, Lou Sanz, The Caravan of Dooom, One Trick Pony, Stewart Bowden and resident Poet Laureate Telia Nevile,

Come and watch as we celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus in true Last Tuesday style. It’ll be heaps more fun than turkey with your Nanna, and being sick on your nephew.

Includes Nativity Play, special drink specials and Craffle! (Crap Raffle).

Christmas will never feel the same again.

After rocking the Melbourne Fringe Festival The Last Tuesday Society moves onto our next theatrical experiment: The Plagiarism Edition.

As Picasso said: 'talent borrows, genius steals'. With this in mind The Last Tuesday Society ring leaders, Bron and Richard, are goading their menagerie of performers into stealing other peoples' ideas, bits of schtick and material and pass it off as their own. It's low down and dirty but oh lordy, it's gonna be fun!

We live in a post modern era ladies and gentlemen, so come and watch as each act pays homage, appropriates, references or blatantly rips someone off (Just don’t invite any copyright lawyers).

Including the following thieves thus far:

• The Suitcase Royale
• The List Operators
• Elbow Room
• The Caravan of Love
• Narelle Tolstoy (AKA Thomas Henning from the Black Lung)
• Poet Laureate Telia Nevile
• Anna Pocket Rocket
• Bron Batten
• Vic Healy
• Amy Brossain

Others to be confirmed.

Hosted by that moustached marvel, Richard 'Dick Dastardly' Higgins

$8/$10. October 27 - 8pm sharp - Yah Yah's.

Craffle.

Get involved

Hello boys and girls!

After a brief hiatus The Last Tuesday Society is back with a vengeance!

September is the time when the independent artists of Melbourne descend into a caffeine fuelled, anxiety dream ridden frenzy and we’d like to invite you along for the ride

There are plenty of rad shows in the festival to check out but we’d like to offer our personal endorsement to those presented by Last Tuesday alumni, all occurring in two convenient locations- The Lithuanian Club and The Meat Market in North Melbourne.

There will also be all the Last Tuesday madness you’ve come to know and love on Tuesdays when we present The Last Tuesday Society at the Fringe Hub at The North Melbourne Town Hall. Featuring artists from the festival as well as extra special guests, Wednesday mornings are going to be hell. Get involved!

As well as the theatre morsels on offer, Last Tuesday favourites The Suitcase Royale are launching their debut self titled album on the 10th of September at the East Brunswick Club. Come bust a move with the best
party bands in Melbourne, with support from The Puda Madre Brothers and Johnny and the Johnny Johnnies. Only $10! You’d be totally lame to miss it!

The time is finally here…

Join us for a Last Tuesday Society special event:

The Jagged Little Pill Edition.

Hosted by famed cultural commentator and academic Albert Anis. Mo(rris) Et (te)

Each act will interpret one track off Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill in true Last Tuesday style.

Featuring:

• The Suitcase Royale
• The Caravan of Love
• Simonce Page Jones
• Tom Doig
• Anna ‘Pocket’ Rocket
• Poet Laureate Telia Nevile
• Matt Kelly and Eva Johansen
• Bron Batten and Lucy Nelson
• Aurora Murphy
• Zoey Dawson

This is the last Last Tuesday Society until September (Rich is going to
Edinburgh and Bron’s working on her solo show for Melbourne Fringe)

So come and watch as we recreate this seminal album (hang on, bron thinks
it's seminal rich hasn't heard it)- it’s going to be totally rad.

Tuesday the 30th of June, 8pm at Yah Yah’s, $8/10

Woah nelly, Yah Yah's was packed...but if you were'nt there here's some of the stuff you missed out on. Acts not featured- Tek Tek Movement, cos we ran out of tape, sorry guys.

Next Last Tuesday is at good old Yah Yah's on the 26th of May, 8pm.

Oh lordy! It's gonna be good to be back! There's a ton of yer old faves and a chunk of LTS virgins in this jam packed night of performance strangeness...

What's better- Poetry or Dance, Freak shows or am - dram. Help us decide....
Line up includes:

• Ritual Cleansing of the stage by HIT & MISS
• 2009 Golden Gibbo Winners The List Operators
• Tek Tek Movement
• Captain Ruin from The Caravan of Doom
• Wordsmith Sean M. Whelan
• Dance Master Di Reid
• Fresh from the oven of the Melbourne Comedy Festival A Lot of Bread
• Poet Laureate Telia Nevile
• Bron Batten’s Welcome to the Jungle

Hosted by Baron Richard Von Higgins

get in.

Greetings to you all from the depths of the Comedy Festival!

It is once again that time of the week...

Join us for a late night spot at The Hi Fi Bar and Ballroom this tuesday at 11pm and catch such awesome guests as:

• Wes Snelling
• The Bedroom Philosopher
• The List Operators
• The Caravan of Love
• Sveta Dobranoch
• Anna Pocket Rocket
• Claudia O'Dougherty from Pig Island
• Telia Nevile
• Bron Batten's Welcome to the Jungle with special guests

Hosted by Baron Richard Von Higgins

We know it's late but Golden Towers is open all night!

Be there or be sensible!

Bron and Rich x
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