I am very excited for the 2009 Mardi Gras Festival. The Festival Guide gets launched today and all of the exciting acts will be revealed. I know Joan Rivers, Alan Cummngs & Roberta Flack are all included in the line-up which sounds fabby!

Trevor Ashley and I are teaming forces as well to bring to the stage a very camp musical comedy titled Gentlemen Prefer Blokes. Trevor Ashley, Phil Scott, Tony Taylor and myself have been working on the show for months now, and we are just getting ready to film some camp video sketches to stitch the madness together.

We open in Parramatta at the Riverside Theaters on February the 19th (the day after my birthday) and then in Sydney at the Civic Hotel Underground on the 20th of February all the way through to the 6th of March. The Civic has undergone some very glamorous refreshments featuring state of the art lighting and sound, white leather, mirrors and perspex for days!

You can go to GentlemenPreferBlokes.com  to find out more and to book tickets. Or click below to skip straight to the booking page.

To book for Parramatta CLICK HERE

To book for Sydney CLICK HERE

Check out my Sheer Cover debut on YouTube

New club on the block, Oxford Art Factory, features a big glass cube in the middle of the venue linking the main dance floor to the bar. So when the lovely peeps at “Get Together” asked me to come up with an idea for the booth I excitedly set my mind to work. I recalled a video of Farrah Fawcett I had seen one night late on TV when I was about 14. She was painting… with her body… naked. I recall her covered in gold paint naked using her breasts as a paint brush. This became my inspiration for my performance art piece in the glass cube.

 I started off the evening entering the cube, which had been set up as a dressing room, with all of my friends. We sat down cracked open a bottle (or two) of bubbly and proceeded to have our own little get together. I put on my hair and makeup through out the next hour and a bit, and finished up in a white dressing gown. As the get together wound down I said goodbye to my guest and sent them on their way. Then there was a knock at the door! It was my art subject, Simon, wearing a white robe, just in time to be my still life model. He entered the booth, hoped up on the podium, next to the paint brushes, paint and bowl of fruit and dropped his robe. I began to paint, instead of the canvas, his body. First with a brush and then, when the brush was not giving the coverage I required… with my fingers. One thing led to another and pretty soon Simon and I (as close to naked as one can be ie flesh coloured underwear) were smearing lashings of paint all over eachother and the booth. The spirit of Pro Hart entered the cube and i could hear the voice of his cleaner, from those great Australian commercials from the 90′s, “Oh Mr Hart what a mess!!”. There was paint splattered all over the walls, the floor and us.  But  soon we grew weary of stepping on tubes of paint and rubbing our bodies up against the glass and so Simon grabbed the bunch of grapes from the, already upturned and smashed, bowl of fruit. He proceeded to branch out into viticulture and squash the grapes… all over me. We ate from the forbidden fruit and threw oranges and bananas around the room. It was the most fun one can have standing up.

Last night I did a show at a club in King Cross called The Lincoln. It was a great night and their first week of shows with the hot female dance troup – The Dirty Pretty Jewels. The place was heaving post fashion-week and the show went off. The girls perform there regularly on Friday nights and do a unique blend of burlesque. Other performers coming up include Melissa, Jade McRae and I will be back (by popular demand I am told) on Friday 23rd June… Come on down and check it out!

Vancouvereenies come along to Celebrities on Thursday the 3rd of April (next thursday) for G’day Vancouver’s Surfs Up Sydney Foam Party!You can get your tickets from Little Sisters prior to the event or on the door! There is also the chance to win a trip for two to Sydney Australia! I am still in Australia where it is a pleasant 24 Degrees! I am perplexed by the Surf’s Up theme and the near freezing temperatures you are currently having…. but i survived New York in late November in a piece of beader tule and open toes shoes… I’m a survivor… just like Beyonce!Check out AustraliaWeek.ca for more details!  P.S. Dear Canada, I love that we share the same initials! I heart CA too!

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by everybodies favourite Drag Queen Puppet –   Queen Miss Left Titter. Check out the videos here:

So a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of performing at the Reclaim The Right Vigil here in Sydney. The Vigil came about due to all of the violence and attacks that have been occurring around Oxford St of late. It was a brilliant day where the community came together with great speakers, hosts, entertainers, a fantastic crowd and beautiful weather. Steph Sands and Maxi Shield hosted the day and speakers included Clover Moore, Adrian Loveny , Shayne Mallard and Shelly Dahl. Shauna Jensen, The Homotones and myself provided the entertainment.

I decided to perform an original track called ‘What About Me’ which I wrote last year after I was a victim of homophobic violence. It was very empowering performing an original track of this nature at such a relevant event. Thank you to Mark Chapman for backing me up on the Acoustic Guitar! Let me know what you think of the track by leaving a comment below!

Come down to Sydney’s hottest new venue. The Trademark, right under the infamous Coke sign in Kings Cross. Alex Taylor and Kate Monroe will be playing, so you know the music will be hot, the venue is fabulous and it is my job to ensure everyone is having a good time. If you want to pop down send an email to rsvp@trademark.com.au to get your name on the door!