Post by Puss on Feb 6, 2009 7:21:21 GMT
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Another stinking, hot Sydney day melts into a sultry eveing as Puss and Eclair depart from Eclair's hotel. We are on our way to the first ever Sydney TG Live! The traffic was, well, ordinary, but we made it in good enough time to have a wander around the prestige motor show, shoving aside spotty teens and old men in checked shirts, so we could have a good look at the Lambos and Astons on display and then have a cooling glass of sparkling wine before heading into the arena to take our seats. We had great seats, though Eclair was seated next to a scarey man she descibed as "simple" he was in fact, fairly harmless and amused us until the show started.
Finally, the advertising ceased its continuous show, the lights dimmed and there was a breathless hush of expectation as a car drove into the arena. This car contained two people who were arguing loudly. At first we thought it was Jezza and Hamster. But no! It was Navman and Navwoman arguing in so shameless, embarrassing and cliched a display that it could only be thought up by an advertising executive. Which, as it turned out, it was. Then we had to sit through two more "ads" and marketing people let me give you a tip; the beauty of car ads is their fantasy: the stunning terrain, intruiging camera angles and mood lighting all add to the mystique and therefore the desire for said vehicle. Just parking it in the middle of the arena, while showing the beautifully shot ad and then having a girl in a hot pink cat suit dance around it, does NOT.
Anyway, on to the main event.
Jezza, Hamster and Steve Pizzati (or Pizzabox as Jezza hilariously named him
actually it was quite funny... ) finally made it into the arena, to huge applause.
Jezza was excellent, in fact the best bits of the evening were when he was picking on memebers of the audience and generally being Jezzaish. He didn't do much driving but maybe that is because as he states he is "too old and his back too broken"
There were an awful lot of gay James jokes and one hilarous graphic of James's head photoshopped onto the body of someone in the gay mardi gras. This was amusing, however they laboured the point a bit. Yes, James is gay, very funny,we get it... Poor Jam. Still, he should have been there because Jezz and Hamster lose something without him. Funny, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and while Steve did an excellent job, he isn't James.
Anyway, highlights include:
Colander of Death
The Cool Wall
Car soccer
Lowlights:
The helicopter thingo (crap)
Audience in a reasonably priced car (OK so maybe we were a crap audience, but it was a Thursday night)
Not enough Stig!
All in all we had a pretty fab time. Eclair may have some bits to add, like how we were told off for taking photos, but I think that pretty much sums it up.
Ta ta!
Puss x
Another stinking, hot Sydney day melts into a sultry eveing as Puss and Eclair depart from Eclair's hotel. We are on our way to the first ever Sydney TG Live! The traffic was, well, ordinary, but we made it in good enough time to have a wander around the prestige motor show, shoving aside spotty teens and old men in checked shirts, so we could have a good look at the Lambos and Astons on display and then have a cooling glass of sparkling wine before heading into the arena to take our seats. We had great seats, though Eclair was seated next to a scarey man she descibed as "simple" he was in fact, fairly harmless and amused us until the show started.
Finally, the advertising ceased its continuous show, the lights dimmed and there was a breathless hush of expectation as a car drove into the arena. This car contained two people who were arguing loudly. At first we thought it was Jezza and Hamster. But no! It was Navman and Navwoman arguing in so shameless, embarrassing and cliched a display that it could only be thought up by an advertising executive. Which, as it turned out, it was. Then we had to sit through two more "ads" and marketing people let me give you a tip; the beauty of car ads is their fantasy: the stunning terrain, intruiging camera angles and mood lighting all add to the mystique and therefore the desire for said vehicle. Just parking it in the middle of the arena, while showing the beautifully shot ad and then having a girl in a hot pink cat suit dance around it, does NOT.
Anyway, on to the main event.
Jezza, Hamster and Steve Pizzati (or Pizzabox as Jezza hilariously named him
actually it was quite funny... ) finally made it into the arena, to huge applause. Jezza was excellent, in fact the best bits of the evening were when he was picking on memebers of the audience and generally being Jezzaish. He didn't do much driving but maybe that is because as he states he is "too old and his back too broken"
There were an awful lot of gay James jokes and one hilarous graphic of James's head photoshopped onto the body of someone in the gay mardi gras. This was amusing, however they laboured the point a bit. Yes, James is gay, very funny,we get it...
Poor Jam. Still, he should have been there because Jezz and Hamster lose something without him. Funny, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and while Steve did an excellent job, he isn't James. Anyway, highlights include:
Colander of Death
The Cool Wall
Car soccer
Lowlights:
The helicopter thingo (crap)
Audience in a reasonably priced car (OK so maybe we were a crap audience, but it was a Thursday night)
Not enough Stig!
All in all we had a pretty fab time. Eclair may have some bits to add, like how we were told off for taking photos,
but I think that pretty much sums it up.Ta ta!
Puss x
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