I am looking for exciting acts for a new regular variety night – The Catchpenny Club. Based out of Melbourne (Australia NOT Florida!) The Catchpenny Club will feature all and any variety acts that are a little odd and unusual strung together into a tight and professional ninety-minute show each month.

To that end, I am putting out a call for Australia's best…

• Comedians
  
• Performance Poets
  
• Jugglers
  
• Acrobats
  
• Magicians
  
• Mentalists
  
• Caricaturists
  
• Burlesque Performers
  
• Balancers
  
• Mimes
  
• Balloon Benders
  
• Ventriloquists
  
• Bubble Artists
  
• Shadowgraphers
  
• Tap Dancers
  
• Science Performers
  
• Fakirs
  
• Escape Artists
  
• Memory Performers
  
• Pole Dancers
  
• Flair Bartenders
  
• Puppeteers
  
• Actors
  
• Plate Spinners
  
• Clowns
  
• Impro Comedians
  
• Illusionists
  
• Montebacks
  
• Aerialists
  
• Chapeaugraphists
  
• Musical Comedians
  
• Reptile demonstrators.
  
• Someone to design a better logo for us.
  

Acts should feel free to be daggy, cheesy, silly, creepy or old fashioned! Just as long as they are entertaining and high quality let me know! I am also looking for NON-performers with interesting skills and talents that we can showcase such as graffiti artists, people with cool tattoos, Rubik’s cube experts and spider wranglers.

My email address is laugh@funnybones.com.au and phone is 0409461776.

The Facebook group is http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7051674868

Australian performers only or you book internationally?

Just locals I'm afraid.

What dates are you thinking about?
I am going to be in Burnei in May and could swing by on my way back....

I know that Curtis is going to need an assistant for his australian Tour, please pack me in one of your uber-cool ATA cases and fly me along...or not!

AC

HMM... Well I am getting a new impaled illusion built... maybe you can slip into that case... OUCH!

I've always had a thing for pneumatics, might be worth it! Reminds me of the night I passed out underneath the miser's cannon @ MSG and was woken up by a pachyderm p@ss@ng 10' away from my head....alas Show Life!

AC

Just a quick update.

We have a website at http://www.conman.com.au/catchpenny

You can also join the facebook group at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7051674868

Please feel free to join even if you're not an Australian. It's a great way to keep track of what other performers are up to as we'll post videos and photos as they come to hand.

We had our first event last week and it was in great. Café member Tom Stevens performed is amazing balloon act and we had a great crowd of people.

Our next night is on 10th June at a larger club in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote and the magician we have booked is Tim Ellis (another Café regular) who will be performing his unique version of 'smash and grab' and hopefully his razor blade eating act! We also have an awesome comedian, a FORK thrower, a whip cracker and the Melbourne Ukulele Kollective!

Check out http://www.conman.com.au/catchpenny for more info.