I received a lovely email crumpled ransom note today from a hard working young band nefarious gang of drunken rogues called “Coldplay” “Captain Dan and The Scurvy Crew”, a band who clearly need to start asking for more citrus-based fruits in their rider.
You can check out their unique brand of Pirate-themed hip-hop at CD Baby. Personal favourite: “That’s How We Row”.
Dance. Sing. Smash glasses of ale on each others’ heads. Pillage. Rape if you must. But most of all, buy it.
Greetings Evildoers,
As occasionally happens, I have a show in Fringe. This time it’s an improvised musical show — we create a new band at that the beginning of the show from audience suggestions, and then play a whole gig as that band. The music is rehearsed, but the lyrics are improvised based on our interaction with the audience. It’s a truly unique new form of theater, and we really enjoy playing it.
Each week is a different genre, so you can come along to all 3 if you like! 
For this event we’ve assembled some of the finest improvisors and musicians in Melbourne to play our 3 debut genres: Folk, Jazz and Rock. We’ve got members of folk ensembles, orchestras, music theater shows, rock bands and more to create an improv supergroup that you will blow your mind.
The gigs are on Saturdays at 4:30pm at Trades Hall and run for about an hour:
Tickets are $15 full price, $12 concession. The theater is gorgeous, with 200 seats encircling the stage complete with Rolling Stones-style walkway. Oh yeah, baby! And of course in the same building there’s the Bella Union Bar for drinks before and after the show.
Tickets are already selling fast, so book today through Melbourne Fringe (03 9660 9666), or online at http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/season/2008/show/174
Thanks for reading, and I hope to catch you all during Fringe.
A few weeks ago the Planet Nerd team had the inestimable pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Baron, creator and writer of Rocketboom — frequently quoted as the most successful video podcast in the world.
For those that don’t know, Baron recently inked a seven-figure deal with Sony to distribute Rocketboom via their various channels. He was in Australia to talk all things video at the Portable Film Festival.
So without further ado, from his throne carved of platinum virgins atop his massive pile of money, Lord Baron (as he now prefers to be known) dictates the new Laws of the World to Dan Walmsley and Ben McKenzie.
Enjoy!
Dan Walmsley, Planet Nerd host and man-about-town, is engaged in a minor war with Multi-Level Marketing (read: Pyramid Scheme) company ACN (American Communications Network).
Head over to his personal blog to check out the latest.
Long time no communication, Planet Nerdsketeers (I blame YOU!). In case you didn’t see the tidal wave of publicity (what, you live in Zurich? That’s no excuse!) Planet Nerd was nominated for “Best Comedy” in the 2008 Antenna Awards.
The Antennas award excellence in community television, which is why we didn’t win. However! It was an honour to be nominated, and muchos congratulationes must go to The Bazura Project for not only winning Best Comedy, but also several other awards including Best Sound and People Whose Skin I Would Most Like To Wear Like A Jacket And Pants. Those guys r0x0rz.
Hopefully our nomination will result in us be showered with opportunities to remake Planet Nerd into something truly award winning – stay tuned!
Depending on how you pronounce it, “Live in New Zealand” could have either of two meanings. In this case, it has both, because:
I congratulate the New Zealanders on their good taste, robust climate, fertile soil and high mountains.
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be part of the inaugural Portable Film Academy. Thanks to Andrew Apostola and all the crew, helpers, speakers and other attendees it was a great weekend and I really learned a lot.
The core task for the weekend was to create an original online series, and below you can watch Episode 1 of our series called “Foreverâ€. This was produced by myself, Johnny Blank and Sebastian Goldspink.
Also a huge thanks to our star Oliver Clark, who was just brilliant as Karl. He nailed every scene in one or two takes, which was great because we were under a lot of time pressure.
Please ignore
We are now syndicated via Veoh, which supports transcoding content to a variety of services from RSS. Someone boarded the clue train! Woo!
A few weeks ago, Dan Walmsley and Adam McKenzie visited Hamilton Island for a week of comedy gigs. What they found was disturbing: a place so seemingly-perfect, so carefree, so fun and yet relaxing, so full of wealthy people partying, so full of free activities and friendly staff, that it just had to have a dark underbelly.
Or so it seems.
This piece was filmed for Channel 31′s Breakfast Show Live.
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