An unfor­tu­nate num­ber of Wel­ling­tonis­tas are rather fond of mak­ing rather ter­rible puns quite fre­quently, which means a lot of my time is spend mak­ing “Badoom chish!” sounds. Ima­gine how much cool­er it would be if the jokes were bet­ter and instead of me, there was a whole damn band play­ing the rim shots. Wait, you don’t want to have to ima­gine it? You want it to be real? Well, have we got the gig for you then!

Remem­ber TAWA-nom­in­ated Rob­bie Ellis and the bus lane you put through his heart? Well, he’s been work­ing on a new show called Band Sub­stances:

It’s music­al stand-up com­edy with a full band!

Join some of Wel­ling­ton’s favour­ite music­al comedi­ans:

It’ll be Band to the Bone! (Jo’s note: BADOOM CHISH!)

The show has with Jerome Chandra­hasen as MC and Rob­bie as music­al dir­ect­or.

  • Doors from 7:30pm, gig starts at 8:00pm
  • Fri­day 30 July
  • Fringe Bar, cnr Cuba & Vivi­an Sts
  • $10 on the door

PS: Rob­bie said in his email “A little tid­bit: last time there was a music­al stand-up com­edy show at The Fringe Bar (April), the Flight of the Conchords made an appear­ance. This is Wel­ling­ton, so any­thing can hap­pen!” We’re pretty sure that they won’t be there again, but YOU NEVER KNOW, right?