Wheeeee! Our new issue is on newsstands today! There’s nine new talents in music,
art, film, writing, social work and the environment to meet, as well as interviews with
Death Cab for Cutie and CSS, a look inside the gracious home of Patience Hodgson
from The Grates, a recipe for CWA-approved scones, tips on winter hibernation, plates
that swear and more rants, fashion and more fun bits than you can poke a stick at.
| I just heard the greatest story from one of my best friends, Graham, who lives in the UK. He was watching Adam Hills perform at the Reading Festival, when a little bit of magic happened. First up, Adam was on after Henry Rollins, which has got to be a bit scary for anyone, but Graham says most of the metallers stayed around to hear our boy do his stuff. Then Adam launched into a routine about hecklers. He started off with this story about how his third best heckle was years ago at the festival, where apparently someone brought along a fake leg and poked it up on the stage while he was performing (a nice little nod to Mr Hills’s one-footed status). Anyway, he’s telling the story when a voice pipes up from the back of the crowd: “That was me!” So Graham says Adam is a bit taken aback by this, and starts getting a little misty-eyed. He says: “If I could get back there I’d want you to give me a hug.” To which the voice replies, “I can’t! I’ve got no arms!” So then it was on – Adam crowd-surfed to the back of the tent (to the strains of the audience singing Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer, which apparently had been an earlier topic), hugged his fellow lack-of-limbs heckler, and then crowd-surfed all the way back to the stage. And just to prove what a love-in the whole thing was, later on in the gig, someone in the crowd realised he’d lost his Tube ticket during the whole affair, and passed it back to the front in the middle of one of his gags. How often does that happen? PS – Fans of the good Mr Hills will be getting a heapin’ helpin’ of him from this Saturday as he hosts the ABC’s Paralympics coverage from Beijing. Saucy comedians AND crazy guys ramming into each other under the guise of ‘wheelchair rugby’? A good excuse to stay in front of the telly, methinks. |
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