Normal
0
false
false
false
EN-AU
X-NONE
X-NONE
February at The Butterfly Club
Cocktail
of the month
As Melbourne attempts summer weather we attempted a summer cocktail. A little
more consistent than the weather The SUPER SUMMER cocktail guarantees you’ll
feel like you’ve had your daily dose of vitamin D (that’s right, we bottled
some) and will bring on a long relaxing evening in the fading sun.
HIGHLIGHTS
IN FEBRUARY
- CIRCUS HORRIFICUS – Returning after sellout shows
in January–
10th – 11th Feb
- SUNDAY SESSIONS – Chris Wilson, the Scared Weird
Little Guys, Claire Jenkins and many more!– Sundays in Feb starting on
the 12th
- Diefenbach – The Missing Person tour and EP
Launch–
10th - 12th Feb
- Ruth Wilkin – A Little
Something I’ve Been Working On - Composer and co-writer of Court! (A cabaret about
netball) and WINNER of BEST CABARET, BEST WRITING and PEOPLE’S
CHOICE awards at Short + Sweet Cabaret 2011 – 23rd – 27th Feb
LOOKING
AHEAD...
- Aleisha McCormack in her debut
solo show – 6th – 11th March
- Jade Leonard – 22nd 25th March
- Sophie Walsh-Harrington –
Winner Best Cabaret, Adelaide Fringe 2011 – 21st-25th March
- Melbourne International Comedy
Festival tickets ONSALE NOW!! Check out our awesome lineup and get your
tickets early!
Media contact:
Alexander Woollard,
JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
/ 0430 447 488
The Butterfly Club
204 Bank Street, South Melbourne
Tel 9690 2000
Tuesday through Sunday from 5.00 pm til late
Celebrating more than 12 years as Melbourne’s best alternative night out
Who
wants a Drink?
Look how much fun these
guys are having!
What’s that? You feel like enjoying a drink in
the sun but don’t want to go to the regular old pub?
Well we have a great
outdoor drinking area, some nice outdoor chairs and tables that you can enjoy
and of course - tasty drinks!
What’s that? You’re
hungry? Well we have bar snacks, how about a tasting plate? Or try Red Petite
just down the road!
Why not make a night
of it, come in, have a cocktail – grab some Bankok Tapas at Red Petite – see
one of our many shows, and join us for a pleasant drink in our newly
re-decorated kitsch courtyard!
...and look how happy James is!
Sunday
Sessions
The cream of Melbourne's established artists
ably assisted by talented, emerging, singer/songwriters.
Compered by Michael Crane
February the 12th: Sweet
Somethings supporting Chris Wilson compered by John Fleming Chapin from the
iconic Scared Little Weird Guys
February the 19th:
Nina De la Cruz supporting Monique Brumby and Greg Arnold
February the 26th:
Matth & Lachy Wallace supporting Sarah Carroll and Marcel Borrak
March the 4th:
Sweet Somethings supporting Jeff Lang and Alison Ferrier
March the 11th:
Micha supporting Steve Kilbey (TBC)
March the 18th:
Frankie Andrew supporting Suzannah Espie and Ian Collard
March the 25th:
Claire Jenkins supporting Kerri Simpson and Barb Waters
Date: Every Sunday from the 12th Feb to Sun 25th March
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Tickets:
$25 Full
$22 Concession
40 minutes each set approx
MIDSUMMA
2012 presents
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
One woman’s journey of
love through song. Romance, loss, unrequited passion, too much passion, pain,
exhilaration.
Join Ruth Katerelos as she weaves her way through her original songs with
stories and observations on life, love and the whole damn thing.
With humour, pathos and the wonderful guitar accompaniment of Monique Kenny,
Katerelos presents a memorable night of polished cabaret performance that is
both touching and powerful. Don’t miss it.
Date: Thurs 2 to Sat 4
February
Times: 7pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession and Midsumma / Joy 94.9 members
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 65 minutes approx
Note: if show appears
sold-out, some tickets may be available at http://www.midsumma.org.au
MIDSUMMA 2012 Presents
Candice McQueen:
NASTY!
Candice. Immortal. Been a lot of places. Seen a
lot of faces. She's even f**Ked with different races.
Candice McQueen: NASTYis
a solo cabaret show about an immortal demi-goddess who has sipped nectar with
Allah and was once the primary care giver of Helen Kellar. Candice is much like
Hercules but with a superior weave. Ms McQueen is taking over The Butterfly
Club to finally make her story.
No secrets. No limits. No taboos.
Candice will reveal the untold love story of herself and a fallen 90's cinema
idol.
Candice McQueen is the creation of London Cabaret tranny artist, Spanky who is
widely known for his 7 year residency in East London's famous Bistrotheque.
Spanky is proud to be premiering his new work Candice McQueen: NASTY at Melbourne's
fabulous Butterfly Club.
Dates: Tues 31st Jan to Sun 5th February
Times: Tues, Weds &
Sun at 8pm, Thurs, Fri & Sat at 9pm
Tickets:
$27 Full
$24 Concession and Midsumma / Joy 94.9 members
$23 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 65 minutes approx
Note: if show appears sold-out, some tickets may
be available at midsumma.org.au
TREVOR
JONES in
Sticky Situations
Two Shows Only!
So much more than
another cabaret show about awkward dates and those stories that seem to end
with 'This could only happen to me'!
Trevor Jones is a singer, pianist and entertainer with more than his fair share
of these stories and, after sellout performances during the Midsumma Festival,
he has decided to bring them back to an audience that encompasses more than his
housemates and The Butterfly Club bar staff.
An evening of happy endings, redheads, impotence, inappropriate groping and a
Beatles song about coming together...
Dates: Tues 7th and Weds 8th Feb
Times: 8pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
$15 if you show your Grindr profile at the bar
Duration: 60 minutes approx
CIRCUS
HORRIFICUS
Back by popular demand
after a sell out premiere show in January!
In the mountains of Tasmania, lurks one of the world’s most truly idiotic clown
troupes, Circus Horrificus.
Samora Squid & Bridget Bridge are renowned for their extreme slapstick
& stunt-based physical-comedy skits that truly test the durability of this
unique pair of twits bodies.
The stretchy, slimy & strangely sexy sweet-heart of sideshow, Samora Squid
Swallows Swords, sings songs & bends his body into the most bizarre
contortions!
Breathtakingly beautiful, destructively dynamic, Bridget Bridge is the Circus
Sideshow, Pain-Proof Strong Woman that consistently leaves audiences dazed
& confused, as she demonstrates the awesome power of her unbreakable bones,
mammoth muscles & Teflon skin!
Dates: Fri 10th and Sat 11th Feb at 7pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
DIEFENBACH
The Missing Person Tour and EP Launch
Diefenbach launches his
sophomore CD release, Missing Person, co-produced by Powderfinger's Darren
Middleton. Missing Person is a dark and undeniably fragile offering, part
pop/part show-stopping Broadway number.
Diefenbach has picked up a Green Room Award for Best Original Songs in Cabaret,
Best Cabaret at Melbourne Fringe 08, and a Matilda Award nomination for his
work in Lady of the House of Love with Sandro Collarelli.
Diefenbach has performed alongside some of Australia's most iconic performers,
including Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan, Paul Capsis and Boston-based punk
duo, The Dresden Dolls.
Date: Fri 10th to Sun 12th Feb
Times: Fri & Sat at
9pm, Sun at 8pm
Tickets:
$27 Full
$24 Concession
$23 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
More info: www.jacobdiefenbach.com
Valentines
Day at The Butterfly Club
with Mikelangelo and Saint Clare
Mikelangelo and Saint
Clare return to The Butterfly Club for two very special intimate Valentine’s
day shows steeped in old world jazz, 1950's dream pop and melancholy country.
Mikelangelo's deep distinctive baritone combines with Saint Clare's smoky,
sultry voice filling the theatre with a rare magic.
Mikelangelo and Saint Clare performed their first show together, the Green Room
Award nominated ‘The Mysteries of Love’, at The Butterfly Club in 2008.
The season was sold out and since then they havegone on to tour extensively
here and abroad, from the Melbourne Cabaret Festival to the Sydney Opera House
to the Edinburgh Festival.
Coinciding with their shows at The Butterfly Club, Mikelangelo and Saint Clare
release their debut single “Oh Me Oh My’ as a digital download via iTunes on
Tuesday 14 February.
‘Their voices seem made
for each other…it is a dark, sexy beauty that leaves you wanting more’ -INPRESS
‘Two of the most amazingly
rich, mature, romantic voices in Melbourne. Both are wholly worthy of the
recognition and praise already heaped upon them.’ - ARTS HUB
Dates: Tues 14th Feb
Times: 8:30pm and 10:30pm
Tickets:
$27 Full
$24 Concession
$23 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
http://www.reverbnation.com/mikelangeloandsaintclare
HEADLINE
SHOW
Lexi DeRock and the Sugarfoot Blues Brigade
Lexi DeRock and The
Sugarfoot Blues Brigade are a Melbourne based band performing all original
music that transports you to another time and place!
Headed by Lexi DeRock who also penned all the tunes the band throws down their
own brand of what’s she’s dubbed jazzrockbluesabillydixielandswingandsway!
After 4 years of playing in Paris clubs and bars she’s decided to take
Sugarfoot down under..and oh how sweet it is.
Dates: Thurs 16th to Sun 19th Feb
Times: Thurs to Sat at
9pm, Sun at 8pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
More info: www.lexiderockandthesugarfootbluesbrigade.com
The
Sexual Awakening of Virginia Poppycock
Meet Virginia Poppycock,
she's as obsessed about sex as she is about Paris but there is a slight
dilemma...Virginia is a Virgin, a 26 year old who believes firmly in the morals
of abstaining oneself until marriage. But after some touchy help by Mr Richard
Scrotumsberry the third, Will Virginia finally reach the heights of climax that
she so desperately desires?
After sell out seasons of the Show at Geelong's The Wrong Crowd Bar, Virginia
has her sights on Melbourne to find herself a man to marry...so she can finally
have sex!
Comedy Cabaret with a touch of Burlesque by Elena Gabrielle
Dates: Thurs 16th to Sun 19th Feb
Times: Thurs to Sat at
7pm, Sun at 6pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 50 minutes approx
More info: www.elenagabrielle.com
Tessa
Waters –
A little bit of standing up and a little bit of falling
down
Tessa Waters return to
The Butterfly Club for ONE NIGHT ONLY with her new solo offering; a poignant
and entertaining exploration of the truly important things in life.
From playing a bumblebee in the back row of Miss Kate’s Dance Academy,
over-dramatic acting school dramas, to stepping out in black vinyl pants and
fox-trotting in the kitchen, A
little bit of standing up and a little bit of falling down is a
show about learning to be happy.
With her inspiring new show the critically and popularly acclaimed comedian
behind “How to be a
Lady" and “Sexytime!"
is set to build on her reputation for creating quality comedy
withheart and soul.
Dates: Fri 17th Feb at 10:30pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
Kai
Smythe –
Big Hairy Fun
The musically masterful, physically wry,
award-winning emerging filmmaker, musician and comedian Kai Smythe (In Search of Atlantis and
Sexytime!)
returns to The Butterfly Club for ONE NIGHT ONLY to premier his first solo show
Big Hairy Fun.
Just because you look like a big hairy homeless man, doesn't mean you are
one... all of the time. The six and a half foot ‘sasquatch’ grandson of an
opera-singing Austrian Baron and double-agent, Kai Smythe was never going to be
strictly normal. In one laconic hour Smythe shares a collection of anecdotes
from his life as a big hairy man in a pristine and plucked society, and shows
how these experiences have lead to his passion for comedy.
Through stand up, live music, film and the odd dance break, Smythe invites his
audience to view the world from his lofty angle and ponder where the human race
might be headed.
Dates: Sat 18th Feb at 10:30pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
Emma Clair Ford
BUTTERSCOTCH
'My imagination is
sweet, and it’s salty…'
A darkly comical crusade for the plight of innocent ideals, BUTTERSCOTCH blurs
the boundaries of memory and lays us bare to the simplicity of desire.
Written and performed by Emma Clair Ford
BEST CABARET NOMINEE, ADELAIDE FRINGE 2011
'such joie de vivre… charm, effortless storytelling… she is brilliant' *****' - ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
'utterly captivating… a superb songstress' -
CABARET CONFESSIONAL
Dates: Tues 21st and Weds 22nd Feb
Times: 8pm
Tickets:
$20
Duration: 50 minutes approx
Double
Entendre – A Musical Twosome
Champagne and strawberries. Tracksuit pants and
ugg boots. Night time car trips and Love Song Dedications. Some things are just
better in pairs.
Presenting two one-woman shows, are self-confessed ballad queen, Daniella
Maddalena and Gemma ‘born in the wrong decade’ Foster.
Join this dynamic duo as they reflect, rejoice and indulge in their love of a
song with belt. Two women…two shows…not too long.
Dates: Thurs 23rd to Sun 26th February
Times: Thurs to Sat at 7pm, Sun at 6pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
The
Cabaret Experiment presents:
Just a little something I’ve been working on.
Here you are, reading
through pages of cabaret show blurbs like the discerning and intelligent
cabaret lovers that you are.
You’re thinking, ‘The last time someone showed me a little something they were
working on, I lost an hourof my life I will never get back.’ Don’t worry
– we’ve all been there.
Composer and co-writer of Court!
(A cabaret about netball) and WINNER of BEST CABARET, BEST WRITING
and PEOPLE’S CHOICE awards at Short + Sweet Cabaret 2011, presents her full
show, with more original music and helpful anecdotes.
“the funniest things in spandex. 4.5 stars” – The Age on Court! A cabaret about netball.
“a clever dissection of bad cabaret” – Tim Richards, The Age on Short + Sweet Cabaret
Dates: Thurs 23rd to Sun 27th February
Times: Thurs to Sat at
9pm, Sun at 8pm
Tickets:
$27 Full
$24 Concession
$23 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
More info: www.facebook.com/thecabaretexperiment
Tom
Dickins – Launch courtyard
Cirque
Du Cabaret
Roll Up Roll Up, the
Circus is town!
Be the first to experience the magnificent show down.
There’s much to see, there’s much to do,
be entertained by me and the crew.
Come for laughs, come for cries,
we have cheeky misbehaviours and dirty little lies.
So get your tickets and get them fast,
I guarantee it wont be your last…
Dates: Tues 28th and
Weds 29th February
Times: 8pm
Tickets:
$22 Full
$19 Concession
$18 Groups (8 or more)
Duration: 60 minutes approx
