So that’s us for now. Our run with MICF was absolutely incredible! Here are a few highlights.

• A Golden Gibbo nomination!
• A whole bunch of awesome reviews and four stars in The Age! Four!
• Over 600 people attended, that is over 600 people who we have ruined!
• We got to see a whole lot of hilarious, inspirational shows and meet a whole lot of amazing, brilliant comedians.
• A couple of nights that sold out and some very loud, responsive audiences who we adored.
• Someone told us Daniel Kitson saw our show. We have no idea if he liked it or not and frankly, we’re not too worried whether or not he did, it just makes us happy to know we now occupy some space within his brain.

Slutmonster was the first show we’ve ever made and this was the first MICF we’ve ever done so we are absolutely, overwhelmingly pleased with what a wonderful run we had. But we could not have done it by ourselves, we really couldn’t have, so here are some very awesome people who we need to thank!

First of all, a huge thank you to Darebin Arts Speakeasy, Beau McCafferty, Paul Bilbsy, our awesome tech guy Ben Johnson (and his excellent stand-in Claire), Aneke McCulloch, and the entire Northcote Town Hall crew, all of whom have been excellent, professional and lovely to work with. Thank you to the amazing artists we shared a venue with; you guys are all so talented and hilarious that it was a privilege to be included in such a great mixture of people. Thank you to The Last Tuesday Society for one of the most fun nights ever. Thanks also to the MICF staff, who have been ace whenever we have dealt with them.

A million thank yous to Marc McIntyre for his awesome puppet making, Adam Lyon for his hilarious narration of the animation, Lauren Olney for the amazing photos she took for our poster, Eff Pan for his fantastic poster design and Shetland Pony fetish, Brett Ludeman and Storybottle.com for filming the best promo video we’ve ever had, Zoy Frangos for making sweet love to Slutmonster in our promo video, Josh Storham for his wicked guitar riffs. Thankyou to VCA for letting us rehearse in their space.

Thank you Lisa-Skye for your amazing support and advice, Dylan Smith for being our rad techie at Fringe, Alan and Peter for lending us mics, Roz, Andrew, Nicole, Aimee, Ian, Andre, Olya and Tom, all wonderful people who have helped in a myriad of ways.

Thank you to each and every person who came to see the show, who helped to spread the word, who brought along friends, thank you to the comedians who tweeted us and mentioned us on the radio. Thank you to the radio stations that had us and the lovely reviewers who saw our show and said lovely things. Thanks especially to Richard Watts who has been one of the best things for our egos ever!

And last of all, Janet McLeod for her support and advice. Being a part of MICF has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of our lives and it might have never happened without Janet convincing us it was a good idea.

There are probably people we are forgetting to thank because we’ve had so much incredible support for this show that it’s a little overwhelming. It gives us big, fat, throbbing warm fuzzies just to think about.

We are yet to decide on what the future holds for Slutmonster but one thing we can say for absolute certain is that this won’t be the last you see from us. We want to make more shows and we want to make them bigger, weirder and perhaps even more fucked up than Slutmonster has been.

The appropriate reaction to this information is fear and a weird boner.

Ethical Reasons to Kill a Man

- He looks like he’s going to commit suicide
- He’s not attractive or tall enough to ever really succeed in life anyway
- His face scares you
- He’s got “guilty hands”
- He was supposed to be aborted
- Everybody seems cool with it
- He asked you not to, but he’s not your real dad!

Fetishes

Here are some new fetishes you can try! They are not popular yet so there’s no social stigma or hang-ups surrounding them!

* Buy a pork nipple (any discreet butcher has some) and freeze it in an ice cube. Set the ice cube on a porcelain plate on the bench and stimulate yourself as you watch it melt, the puckered features of the pork nipple gradually becoming clearer as the opaque crystals within the ice dissolve around it, like a white silk stocking slowly and seductively sliding off a woman’s leg of ham.

* Wear a remote-controlled vibrator in your underwear, and leave the remote under your front door mat. When a visitor arrives and you open the door with your face all flushed, explain it away by saying “Sorry, I was just taking a massive dump.”

* Tantalise yourself by restricting your access to masturbation for a year. You’re only allowed to indulge in self-pleasure while the song ‘Only the Lonely’ plays and you have to cum before the song’s over, but you can’t play it yourself. One loophole is that you can trick people into humming it.

* Sexy role-play as one of the dogs on the Titanic.

* Fuzzy hand muffs (?)

* For a sexy dangerous thrill, try bungee-jumping with the rope attached to your butt plug. Hold tight!

Pretty Pictures

We just uploaded a bunch of new images to our media page, go check it out.

Comedy Festival Page

The MICF guide was released recently and it is all sorts of sexy.  I’ve been staring at it all evening, gently humming to myself and sweating. So sexy. Check out our page here. 

Another Positive Review

Some lovely words were said about our show over at intoxannals.com which is a great website run by one very cool artist who does the kind of work that is very much up our alley. There is a little bit of a spoiler in the review, so click it at your own risk. For those yet to see the show, here are the words minus the spoiler.

“Slutmonster combines fairytale with a ‘stick-your-dick-in-everything’ mentality and is marked by trees made of tits, vegetation with lubed up orifices and the Slutmonster itself, a furry-titted, giant schlonged sex maniac. (…) Ngaio has made a Mighty Boosh cum Tim and Eric satire of sexual conquests and gender relations; and that’s no mean feat. Yes, dick jokes, toilet humour and fine, fine art.”

MICF Promo Video

This is what happens when you try to shoot a promo video at 1AM after spending all day filming for a different project. Broke artists gotta take advantage of having access to a camera when they can.

Things! Glorious Things!

First of all, tickets for Slutmonster as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are now available through the Northcote Town Hall. Get in early before the MICF and Town Hall websites are even updated with the links! Click here to purchase tickets. 

Also, the incredibly awesome Richard Watts has included Slutmonster in his list of performing arts highlights in 2012! Check it out.  

We’re Number Two!

What’s that? We won “Highly Commended in Comedy” at the Melbourne Fringe Festival for our first ever foray into theatre?

Nice!

Radio Interview

We’re on the radio tomorrow, right after lunch! You’ll have just enough time for an egg sandwich and a bracing enema before tuning into Triple R so you can listen in to Wes & Jessie’s live interview on ‘Aural Text’ to talk about all things Slutmonster. We’ll be on from 12:40pm at 102.7 FM. For people who don’t believe in radio, you can also live-stream it from the Triple R website.

http://www.rrr.org.au/