Melbourne Conversations
Toff Talks: North vs South – What side of the river do you sit on?
A humorous rant around the fabled north/south divide delving into living, culture, music, art, bikes, cafes - you name it. They’re so different OR are they?
Date:Monday 29 October 2012
Time:8 - 9pm - bars opens 7.30pm
Venue:Toff in Town L2/252 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Free event. No bookings required.
Panellists:
Dave O’Neil has been in the business of comedy for over 20 years. He has performed at 12 Melbourne International Comedy Festivals, at various comedy clubs nationally, and is one of Australia’s most recognisable stand-up comics. As well as his stand up career, Dave is a skilled radio broadcaster, Nova 100, Vega 91.5/Classic Rock FM (with Sean and 774 ABC Radio in Melbourne. Dave has also become a regular part of successful TV shows such as Spicks & Specks, Gordon St Tonight, and Good News Week and has written several books, including his last release Everything Tastes Better Crumbed.
Sophia Brous is a multi-award winning vocalist and musician, broadcaster and curator. Touted as a “human powerhouse” and “prodigious chanteuse” (Rolling Stone), BROUS possesses an uncompromising vision for pop. Equal part exotica diva and pop auteur, Sophia Brous weaves together a mesmerising palette of 60s soundtrack fetishism, shimmering psychedelia and industrial lounge, with nods to pop traditions stretching from Japan to Brazil to Eastern Europe – stunning melodies all crowned by Brous' extraordinarily powerful voice.
Dick Gross is a flamboyant Writer and Blogger and former three-time Mayor of City of Port Phillip. His weekly blog Godless Gross, published in the Age, attracts vigorous debate, often in excess of 500 comments. Dick's most recent book, Death by Elegy, uses Thomas Gray’s eighteenth-century masterpiece Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard as a basis to examine a contemporary approach to death.
Zora Sanders is the Deputy Editor of Meanjin and former editor of Farrago. Zora is a writer, editor and internet connoisseur. She is currently the deputy editor of Meanjin Quarterly and has previously worked as reviews editor for Arena magazine and as editor of Farrago. She is a contributor to ScreenMachine.tv and a selection of other blogs far too silly to mention here.
Wrangler (MC) Catherine Deveny is a humourist, writer, blogger and confessed lover of Melbourne and everything Melbourne. Deveny is a comedy writer, comedian, author, social commentator and broadcaster well known for her work as columnist with The Age newspaper and as a ABC regular. She cites her biggest influences as Bill Hicks, Richard Dawkins, Billy Bragg and Alice Miller.
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