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:

  • Gabriel Page
  • Sarah Harpur
  • Car­lo & Cyn­thia Wake­field from Young and the Wit­less IV
  • The Fringe Bar Opera Soloists and more!

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?