Hello and welcome again to your Weekly Wot’s Wot in Folkus & around the traps…
ed…. the past week’s headlines in Folkus
PORNOGRAPHIC ROCK FORMATIONS FOUND ON MARS! … POLICE SEIZE LANDER’S CAMERAS!
NASA DENIES HISTORY OF SERIAL ABUSE OF YOUNG HEAVENLY BODIES!
KEVIN & BRENDAN LABEL MARS "REVOLTING" and "DISGUSTING"!
MALCOLM DISAGREES WITH BRENDAN!
MALCOLM’S TWO PICTURES OF MARS DOUBLE IN VALUE!
those persistent scaremongers & harbingers of DOOM, the wowsers and insurance companies, are taking over our world….
AND politicians prove they know nothing about art or science… nothing new at all really
INDEX
1. This Week in Folkus
2. Next Week in Folkus
3. Parish Notices
4. The Comics
5. Sport
1.
This Week In Folkus – THREE BIG SHOWS and they’re all BEST quality to the core …
The Folkus Room, (operates out of The Serbian Cultural Centre & Club) 5 Heard St. MAWSON ACT .. eastern side of Southlands Centre and just off Athllon Drive.. CHECK OUT OUR NEW MAPS PAGE…. www.thefolkus.org.au and follow the links
Friday 30 May .. King Curly and The Doomsday Piano fresh from a very successful National Folk Festival, this fabulous band was picked up to tour with K D Lang…. ’nuff said …… PLUS Jordan Best
Saturday 31 May .. Sat Arvo Jazz – 2pm to 5pm … with Judi Pearce & The Arrangement
Sunday 1 June .. The Yearlings; PLUS Doctor Stovepipe
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Next Week In Folkus … MORE GREAT AFFORDABLE ENTERTAINMENT
Friday 6 June .. Queen Juanita & Her Zydeco Cowboys ….. there will be dancing !!
Sunday 8 June .. Harry Manx & Yeshe Reiners …. bookings going fast
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Parish Notices…….. who said Canberra hibernates in winter????
3a. The Folkus Room is offering annual subscriptions. Click HERE for details… WE NEED YOU!
3b. ON STAGE NEXT WEEK – Sunday (dress rehearsals) to Thursday ….Make sure you see the Irish Community Players latest production of Bernard Farrell’s "therapeutic" comedy, "I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell", which will be on at the Canberra Irish Club, 6 Parkinson St, Weston, from 2nd to 5th June at 8 pm. Tickets cost $20 for Adults and $15 for Concessions, and bookings will be available at the club in a few week’s time on 62887451. Don’t miss the play that helped launch Liam Neeson’s career…
3c. Folkus on Blues is about to get happening. If you are a bluesy performer we would like to meet with you or your representative at The Folkus Room (Serbian Club, Heard St, Mawson) at midday on Saturday 31st May. If you can’t attend, or arrange a representative, and would like to be part of the Folkus initiative, please email me to that effect and I’ll see that your act is included. It would help too if band reps could come armed with a list of available dates – your diaries ladies and gentlemen.
3d. The notice with depth & C21…. Arlo Guthrie is on Friday week (13 June) at The Canberra Southern Cross Club. There are still a few seats left…. phone 02 6283 7200 for bookings
3e. There’s a very good reason to go along to The Front Cafe in Lynham on Saturday night (31st of May – 8pm). You’ll get to hear the new and scintillating Moonlight Rooftop Revellers (don’t try to say that too many times out loud!). A love child of Dr. Stovepipe, who as you may know are the very talented Ed Radclyffe, Pablo Shopen and Jim Sharrock. To concoct an elixir for a Moonlight Rooftop Reveller, one only needs to extract a Jim (temporarily, as he attends to other doctorly duties) and add a Krista (Krista Schmeling formerly of the Honeybells). You could imagine the jazzy, westerny, swingy, gospelly, old-timey possibilities – OR you could go along and hear it for yourselves!
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Sometime in the future, George Bush has a heart attack and dies. He goes to hell where the Devil is waiting for him. "I don’t know what to do here," says the Devil. "You’re on my list but I have no room for you, but you definitely have to stay here, so I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’ve got three people here who weren’t quite as bad as you. I’ll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I’ll even let YOU decide who leaves." George thought that sounded pretty good, so he agreed. The devil opened the first room. In it was Ted Kennedy and a large pool of water. He kept resurfacing over and over and over, gasping for air. Such was his fate in hell. "No!" George said. "I don’t think so. I’m not a good swimmer and I don’t think I could do that all day long."! The devil led him to the next room. In it was Tony Blair with a sledgehammer and a room full of rocks. All he did was swing that hammer, time after time after time, and more rocks appeared. "No! I’ve got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day!" commented George. The devil opened a third door. In it, George saw Bill Clinton lying naked on the floor with his arms staked over his head and his legs staked in spread eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky doing her thing. George Bush looked at this in disbelief for a while and finally said, "Yeah, I can handle this." The devil smiled and said… "Monica, you’re free to go!"
Child
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new
Whose name you meditate–
April snowdrop, Indian pipe,
Little
Stalk without wrinkle,
Pool in which images
Should be grand and classical
Not this troublous
Wringing of hands, this dark
Ceiling without a star………… Sylvia Plath
Stay Well & Truly Silly Gentle Folk
Bill Arnett
The Folkus Room
Canberra’s Acoustic Preference
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0407 434 469
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