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Meow Meow

If you’re in Perth and can get tickets for Meow Meow… do:

International singing sensation, sequinned sex bomb and masterful comedienne Meow Meow has prowled, preened and stunned from Paris to Berlin and Vegas to New York.

Blazing her way through a beguiling blend of 30s Shanghai show tunes, 60s French pop and Brechtian drama, Meow’s razor-sharp shows lurch between mischief and melancholia.

With her distinctive brand of kamikaze cabaret, this classical dancer and opera singer dazed and amazed audiences at David Bowie’s Highline Festival. Get ready Perth – Meow is poised to pounce.

Special guest pianist Iain Grandage

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The show started with Meow entering from the back of the theatre, dischevelled glamour, carrying several bags – immediately engaging hapless members of the audience to help her out “just take it to the stage darling…” as she explained that she really didn’t feel up to a performance tonight after a tragic break up “I know I know”…

It was a fabulous show. Funny. “Where am I? What city?” Terrifying (don’t sit on the aisles if you’re shy). “Just hold me and love me.” Musical – the girl can sing and is ably accompanied by festival favourite Iain Grandage.

A festival highlight for me.

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Review – LABJACD with DJ Dexter

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Tonight was the Opening Night of the Perth International Arts Festival’s contemporary music program, this year at Beck’s Music Box on the Esplanade. The venue was great. Bigger than last year’s Verandah at the Perth Concert Hall – or at least it felt bigger. I did like the intimate atmosphere of the Verandah, but sitting back in the balmy night, the city lights of Perth twinkling overhead, under the stars in a music charged atmosphere of hip-hop salsa – I couldn’t fault the new venue.

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Yes it was a bit of a fag to walk around the venue to the front over the grass in my killer heels, and you need to get there early to secure a perch on the soft comfy couches – the food is a little ordinary – hotdogs and chips – okay so upmarket versions – but all in all – a pretty good place to be on a Saturday night.

Musicians from Melbourne’s best salsa, jazz, funk and Cuban big bands come together in LABJACD – a dynamic nine-piece band who mix up hip-hop, Cuban salsa, jazz and Andean folk music.

Combining extensive musical expertise with their Chilean heritage, LABJACD are equally at home alongside Australia’s premier hip-hop groups as among some of the best world music artists from around the globe.

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LABJACD were pumping. I’m not the hugest fan of hip-hop but loved the salsa twist and even appreciated the record sliding groove of DJ Dexter. There were lots of beautiful people shimmying and sashaying on the dance floor and Groover and I got up for a song or two. I felt quite hip and groovy. With it even. Here’s a taste:

And then I started to feel a bit old…

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We’ll be back. Monday night for Meow Meow.

Travel

Cheap wine and three menu choices

I know you’ve all been holding your breath:  Will the river cruise be as bad as Cellobella predicted?  Or has she gone on the epicurial journey of a lifetime?! 

Bait your breath no more my friends, and come sail with me on “Perth’s Famous Wine Cruise”.

We arrive and line up to board our flat bottomed boat and spent the time waiting deciding whether to go for the chicken (sauce too sweet), fish (very dry) or linguine (which turned out to be penne but looked the best option). I chose chicken and got a yellow sticker.  But first a pic by the waiting photographer.  Click. 

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We manage to score the last booth on the boat which was great – if you don’t get a booth you are sitting in rows with little airplane tables to rest your drinks on.  And that’s no fun at all.

But we had a booth so we were happy, as were the three booths taken up by a real estate company out for a boozy Christmas lunch.  We were delayed in our departure because there was a problem with the engines but they sorted that out and off we chugged bound for the Swan Valley.

We were first offered coffee or tea in a paper take-away cup and a Sara Lee muffin – chocolate, blueberry or banana.  A little low rent I thought given the price of the tickets, but the tea was okay and the muffins not too unpleasant.   Might have been nicer warmed through.

We floated past the city with the commentator upstaged by the FESA fire bombing helicopters out for a practice. 

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They were quite exciting to watch and I went to sit at the front of the boat until it got too cool without a jumper.

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And then it was time (10.30am) for the first wine tasting of the day.

The cheap – oh it was cheap wine – Houghton’s White Classic – which is an okay quaffing wine but certainly not good enough for a wine tasting.  The wines didn’t get much better. 

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I don’t understand that.  Surely you would bring out the good wines first while people can still taste them?

Oh and we each got this “cheese platter”. 

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Our first stop was Sandlefords Winery, where we had another tasting – this time the wines were quite nice – I liked the 2004 Cab Sav. Very pleasant.  We spent some time there, many browsed the gift shop, then we wandered back down to the river to travel to lunch at the Water’s Edge Cafe.

It was a pretty ordinary lunch to my mind.  I’ve described the options for main course. Mine was very average and I wished I’d ordered the pasta.  And just to continue my whinging – the dessert was inedible.  However they did make up for it somewhat by adding candles to my MIL’s cake for her birthday.  Sweet.

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And then it was home-time.  The other tables got stuck into the wine, I fell asleep, and the rest of my party talked and enjoyed the cruise back to the city.  There was even a singing steward – who was surprisingly good.

I had low expectations (no, really) of this cruise.  I don’t like river cruises and when you have a big group of tourists I guess the quality falls in terms of the food and wine served.  My expectations were met.  But that doesn’t mean I didn’t have a good time.  We chatted, we made scathing comments about the wine, we discovered that someone close to us has just had a boob job – and we hadn’t even noticed!  I can’t believe we didn’t notice.

And it was pleasant chugging up and down the Swan – we even saw dolphins on the way home.

But I wouldn’t do it again.

For one thing, it sounds as though it can be a bit of a booze cruise – they push the water pretty hard and thanked us for being a good crowd “especially after the week we’ve had” which suggests it can get a bit out of hand.

And for another – I’d rather spend the money on a decent restaurant with fine wine – and for $135 a head – it would be a very nice meal.

If I had to go again I would definitely bring cards.

Family, Recipes

Mr Weezee’s satay sticks

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SatayIn the tradition of The Food Pornographer may I introduce you to the worst kept secret in the Western Suburbs – Mr Weezee’s Satay.

I’d heard others talk about this phenomenon of a shop and its quirky idiosyncracies and was intrigued. The co-manager of our cricket team told me where it was – in the middle of Chelsea Village – and taking a short detour home I dropped in this afternoon.

First of all – he only takes cash or cheque. That is important information as I don’t think there is a cashpoint there – well, not an obvious one.

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So yummy! The sticks are just the right size to barbeque. The sauce peanutty and as delicious with salads. A winner.

Shop G13 Chelsea Village 145 Stirling Hwy Nedlands WA 6009 (You have to go right inside the complex and it is a small shopfront in the northeastern quadrant).

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Don’t phone home, we’ll phone you!

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Following Feline’s advice, I’ve bought The Orchid Hunter a new phone. It cost $199 and serves as his birthday present.

He loves it.

I took him with me to choose it – we bought it from Crazy John’s because the guy in the shop was so helpful and attentive and gave good advice I think and because Crazy John himself died this week and it was like I was wishing him well.

Bryan from Crazy John’s is leaving next week to move to Narrogin with his girlfriend. He reckons he has to move to the country to be able to afford anything, the cost of living and housing being prohibitive in Perth. It will help that for the first couple of months he’ll be staying with her folks. He doesn’t have a job there yet but has an interview next Monday. He came across to me as a sensible young man, very helpful customer service manner and I think he’d do well whatever the job was.
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His advice to me was that if my son wasn’t going to use the phone to chat a lot, to go for a prepay plan which can be carried over month-to-month. Bryan reckons cap plans which offer say $310 for $49/month develop bad habits in teenagers. His offsider agreed. She’s had a phone since the age of 7 (is that child abuse?) and finds the cap plans have led to profligate phoning.

So I bought the nice Nokia 6300 which has enough features – like a camera and bluetooth – to keep him interested – and games (crap though they are) – to encourage him to turn it on. He keeps the charger by his bed and uses the phone as an alarm clock – so hopefully it will be charged. I’ve also plugged in some useful phone numbers for him and we’re going to try the “blind call” technique for getting us to call him and hopefully keep the credit lasting a while.

Day two and he’s still carrying it around and it’s mostly turned on. I did discover he was keeping it on silent (!!!) but we’ve sorted that out now… I hope. Lets see how he goes in a month… 🙂