Monday, May 23, 2011

Ironfest


Here's me with an old friend, at Ironfest in Lithgow a couple of weekends ago:

The pic was taken at an exhibition by the Sydney Robot Workshop, a club for people who want to build robots. Awesome!

Although it was freezing, Ryan and I had a great time at Ironfest. We performed in a friendly venue, The Shed, tantalised by the smell of delicious coffee and chocolate brownies on display at the cafe. Thanks Ian Walton for the first pic below, and Ian Moore for the second! :-)


Meanwhile, outside on the oval, people dressed up to recreate famous battles, while others displayed their artwork in stalls. The costumes from all eras were amazing, but as previously established on this blog, I am a poor excuse for a photojournalist, and spent my time gawking instead of taking photos.

What I did manage to get, however, is a pic of the Reapers. Representing the forces of darkness, they had a motorbike-jousting battle with the friendly mortal Knight Riders in an attempt to steal the souls of everyone on earth.

(You'll be relieved to know the mortals won!)

A big cheers from Ryan and I also to the Brothers Three, who also performed at The Shed, and joined in with some tap-dancing during our set!

Friday, May 6, 2011

Mr Bandicoot photos





Here are some of the photos from the Mr Bandicoot show at the Victorian State Library in April (see two posts ago).

That's me and Elsha Lawson-Boyd on stage, and also Elsha being a train with the crowd! It was probably the best audience train I've ever seen, made of dozens of kids going round the library lawn in a conga line.

We were there to help launch the Library's Young Readers Program CD, which is a CD of fun nursery rhymes supplied free to libraries and health centres across Victoria.

Mr Bandicoot is a kids picture book and cd by Anne Lawson (Elsha is her grand-daughter which is extra cool!). It is made up of gorgeous nursery rhymes about tigers, seashells, fairies, trains and more that Anne made up for her kids fifty years ago, sung by me, and the book is illustrated by Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen. More info on Mr Bandicoot here!