Tripod to return to that Brisbane Arts Mecca, for the Brisbane Comedy Festival at The Powerhouse
Begin press release now:
Sure, Tripod have made mistakes. They got regrets. Like that time they tried to steal a police station. But you earn your scars. Wisdom. She’s a nagging bitch, and she moves in without asking.
Years, they pass like night buses in the rain. Comes a time when you need to face the awful ding of the truth bell. Ding! You got old, troubadour. A minute ago you were the scorching charismageddon of the new generation. Now you’re a luck-addled boozehound on the lam from a tax bill and a pregnant Nigerian princess.
And as he slouches in the battery glow of that out of town bus, with a gut full of homeward bound and only a suitcase full of disappointment to show for it, Gatesy toys with his glass eye and quietly lets himself wonder if maybe the dream really did come true. Maybe at last, through all the smoke and the fighting, at some point when he wasn’t looking, he finally became a man.
In Men of Substance Tripod light a cigarette, pour a brandy, go get the gun that’s taped behind the toilet cistern, and sing songs about how it all went down.
1st-4th March
Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St New Farm
Sure, Tripod have made mistakes. They got regrets. Like that time they tried to steal a police station. But you earn your scars. Wisdom. She’s a nagging bitch, and she moves in without asking.
Years, they pass like night buses in the rain. Comes a time when you need to face the awful ding of the truth bell. Ding! You got old, troubadour. A minute ago you were the scorching charismageddon of the new generation. Now you’re a luck-addled boozehound on the lam from a tax bill and a pregnant Nigerian princess.
And as he slouches in the battery glow of that out of town bus, with a gut full of homeward bound and only a suitcase full of disappointment to show for it, Gatesy toys with his glass eye and quietly lets himself wonder if maybe the dream really did come true. Maybe at last, through all the smoke and the fighting, at some point when he wasn’t looking, he finally became a man.
In Men of Substance Tripod light a cigarette, pour a brandy, go get the gun that’s taped behind the toilet cistern, and sing songs about how it all went down.
And what better place to premiere the show than the very substantial Playhouse at the Arts Centre? On two very exclusive dates, the 23rd and 24th of February. And remember, these are the only dates we’re doing in Melbs in the first half of the year, so do the math and bring your granny along. She might not make it till August.
If anyone’s seen our Live at Woodford DVD, you’ll know how much Woodford goes off. We’re doing it again this year, so get out your gumboots, pull on your happy pants and join us.
Only a week to go until Toff shows. We have at least three songs we’ve never played anywhere before. And could never play again, depending on their Toff reception. It’s a tiny room, so I’m not being dramatic when I say you might miss out if you don’t book now.
Other people in the World, in case you have a life and didn’t know about our Golden Stream, our lovely mate Thomas has worked out how to put our Golden Stream shows on Youtube. The above Episode (9) has my favourite opening so far. And the most annoying game of charades possibly ever played. We did a couple of songs, too including I Hate Your Family, which you can get here:
We’re also doing a regional tour of Tripod versus the Dragon in Vic – see here for dates and places.
We’ve been doing the Golden Stream and if you don’t know what that is yet, look at this. Don’t know how you wouldn’t, since we’ve been pummelling you with emails and tweets about it. If you wanna know what time it’s on where you live, have a look at the bottom of the channel page. We started doing Song-In-An-Hour on it a few weeks ago, and I think my fave (other than the one I forgot to tape) is
plus, Big Fat Announcement:
Scavenger Hunt Competition Competition
Are you the Ultimate Podster? Ready for the smell of adventure?? Now begins your Tripod Scavenger Hunt!
Here are the rules, and some helpful hints:
-All answers can be found through the official channels and sites – the website, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube. You may have to search, but the answers are there……somewhere….
-The only section where you might have to do some Google-ing, (if you don’t already know the answer), will be in the “Let’s get personal” section.
-Please put your answers on the question sheet you were sent, and write them in a different color.
-When you have all the questions answered, send your responses back, as an attachment, to tripodfans@gmail.com.
-The word “Answers” should be in the subject line.
-Winners will be chosen at random from the entrees that have answered ALL the questions correctly.
-You must have a Skype account (or access to a Skype account) to qualify for the call from Scod, Yon, and Gatesy.
-Watch the Tripod sites for the final date to turn in your answers. Get the questions here
Oh, and someone lovely posted this from the Logies. You can get the song on our Christmas Album. Use the itunes button.
And the new DVD, Tripod versus the Dragon is in shops.
Number a), on Sundays in June we’re doing some Melbourne shows at the Toff in Swanston Street. It’ll be new stuff ahoy, so if you feel like being a guinea pig and witnessing stuff that no-one may ever see again, do come. There’ll be some old fave
s, and we’ll take some tweeted requests for sure. Begin press release now: If you’d like a peep at some new stuff then come and see Tripod at the Toff. Witness the car crashes, the unquestioned triumphs, and the medium ones that they’ll bicker about after everyone’s left. Come and see the boys close up in an intimate setting and witness them in all their craggy glory. Enjoy seeing the myth of Tripod’s shiny physical beauty crumble and feel good about yourself like when you see a hot chick spewing in the gutter. Click here to book.
Plus we did our first Song-In-An-Hour challenge on the Golden Stream last week, and I am quite confident in saying it was a good one, since I(Yonny) forgot to press the red button so there’s no record of it to prove otherwise. Speak to people who saw it. Maybe they can recount it for you – I’m sure it’s just hilarious in the retelling. It was suggested that we re-record it but promptly decided that that would violate the sanctity of the Song-In-An-Hour what with its impromtu-ish nature. I promise to press record this week. There was also a tech glitch on the event countdown thing on Ustream (amazingly, not my fault) where it was saying we do the stream on Friday. In no part of the world is the Stream seen on a Friday. It is either Wednesday or Thursday depending on where you are. See map. To be sure to be sure, check out the countdown on our actual Golden Stream page to make sure you don’t miss it.
Plus also, at the end of May, we’ll be part of the Ace Amore 2011 Gala Ball. Lots of ace(!) music including the splendid Elana Stone, who you might remember from such nerd operas as Tripod versus the Dragon. She’ll be teaming up with the lovely Brian Campeau to form The Rescue Ships. And there’s Jane Badler (who I’m particularly excited about – she’s Diana from 80s miniseries, V) and a bunch of others.
On the 13th/14th of April, depending on which neck of the woods you’re from, Tripod’s Golden Stream flows again. When it does, it’ll be extra special, cos we’re gonna do our Song-In-An-Hour challenge. We’ll take your suggestions from the chat, so if you wanna get your ideas used, i think you have to create a UStream profile.
Some of you might be familiar with Song-In-An-Hour already, but if you aren’t, listen to this.
Also, because of Daylight Saving, lots of the times around the world have changed, so check the map and pray I’ve got it right. To be extra sure, tune in before time and there’ll be a countdown to the show.
Hi Melbourne Podsters we’re not doing the Comedy Festival. But. The Famous Spiegeltent’s in town, and we’d be idiots to not play there. So, if only to prove that we’re not idiots, we’ll be giving you Melbournites your 3pod fix on the 26th and 27th of Feb.
The show? Well it’ll definitely be stuff. We don’t know yet. We’ve got some new songs. It’ll be loose. And, as anyone who’s seen anything there would tell you, with the Spiegs you can take a dump on the stage and it becomes magical.
On Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th of March, depending where you live in the world, we did a bit of a trial run of our proposed weekly meanderings, Tripod’s Golden Stream. We sang a couple of songs, gently assassinated each other’s characters, and tried to keep up with the song requests and feedback re our sound mix.
It was fun enough to continue, so next week we’ll be on again at the same time (note if daylight saving changes, I’m thinking of you, U.S , it might be an hour later than last time.) Read our easy to follow map to know what time we’ll be on. Of course we’ll be posting the crap out of it after the event but do try and catch it live so you can be part of the Tower of Babel that is the chat.
February 24, 2011 - Posted by admin - Comments Off
We are extremely pumped to announce that our new DVD of the nerd-opera Tripod versus the Dragon is available for order with a release date of 2nd of March.
Get them at Sanity and get the limited Special Edition with bonus Original Cast Recording CD.
We shot it at Chapel off Chapel with the lovely Jon Olb at the helm.
