FRINGE FEST FIGHT NIGHT NEXT FRIDAY!
Hello my dear Airhorn friends!
I hope this email finds you well. I hope you are out on this absolute cracker of a day, having just finished up work, and you're like "ah, I know I shouldn't, but maybe I'll check my email one more time...cos I just can't 'turn off'." And then BAM! It's this email, at the top of your inbox, blasting it's six beautiful words "FRINGE FEST FIGHT NIGHT NEXT FRIDAY" and suddenly all you can think about is the weekend, and comedy, and good times, while your work week disappears in a weak, coffee-scented, beige-coloured, wisp!
This is the first thing I hope. The second thing I hope is that maybe YOU COME TO THE SHOW NEXT FRIDAY?! The Fringe Airhorn is shaping up to be an absolute spectacle and sheer delight. You can still buy tix but they are almost gone
It will have:
- A sausage sizzle
- Limited edition Airhorn T-Shirts
- A big, era-defining brawl between Airhorn and the Newtown City Council
- 17 of the BEST comedians this country (and world?) has to offer!
- Surprises we can't mention!
That's so much stuff! There's so much we are planning that I am, to be honest, panicking a bit! You say "Oh, Airhorn is in a week!" with a joyfulness. I say "AIRHORN IS IN A WEEK?!" with organizational terror. We are truly pushing ourselves to our limits for this show. But at the same time? We are fricking doing it. Stuff is coming together behind the scenes near miraculously. We dreamt up our biggest night yet and now are actually realizing it and so the panic i mentioned (at the start of this paragraph) is a joyful one, like the panic you get before a first date, or at the peak of a rollercoaster, or when you're in the ocean but haven't yet plunged.
I am realizing that I might panic a lot and might associate panic with "honest feeling" and "getting stuff done" and maybe this isn't healthy. BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT! ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THIS UNHEALTHIY, HARRIED LABOR AND ENJOY THE SHOW!
Let's talk of that show more!
1. Sausage Sizzle
The show is at 8pm but if you show up a bit early (like 7:30?) you can buy yourself a sausage! It will be going to a good cause and cooked over a deliciou charcoal grill so you can taste the heat and the meat.
2. The Shirts
AIRHORN HAS FRICKIN' MERCH NOW? Look at this!
The shirt was designed and drawn by Airhorn’s tech maestro DJ BBGUN (Angelica), and hand-printed by her and me. The design is a bit friendly, a bit threatening, a bit incongruous: just like the show! It’ll be available in three colours— gray, butter yellow, and white— and a range of sizes.
These shirts are limited (because we are hand printing them and our shoulders get tired), so if you know you want one, I recommend pre-ordering one through our handy form
3. The Brawl
Honestly, I don't want to talk about this too much because it is stressing me out. One of our inspirations when we started Airhorn was professional wrestling, but in an artistic, aesthetic sense. We never meant that we'd do actual wrestling on the show. But then we had a serendipitous, for-real feud with the Newtown City Council that manifested a wrestling spirit in a way we were not prepared for. Each month, this legitimately stressful feud escalates, and you, the dear audience, lap it up and seem to crave more. We handed out feedback forms last show, and the overwhelming feedback we got was "more violence".
Please understand, this is a fun show for you, but it's real life for me. When I shouted at the council, in December, "Let's have a brawl", I meant it metaphorically. They did not take it as metaphor. Last month, the Newtown City Council literally threatened the future of the show, the centre, and my time in this beautiful country. They are coming for a fight, and it is a fight we are now dutybound to deliver.
So I am stressed out because I have seen what our cast can accomplish when we work together and I am stressed, honestly, by how much we are going to DESTROY THE NEWTOWN CITY COUNCIL. THE BRAWL IS ON. I WAS BORN IN THE FROZEN TUNDRAS OF ALASKA. I WAS BREASTFED ON WOLF'S BLOOD. THOSE BULLIES DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HELL THEY'VE UNLEASHED.
4. The comedians
Now THIS is a treat! We have a simply ridiculous number of comedians for you who are all at the top of their game. We have your regular faves like Booth the Clown, Jak Darling, Hoani Hotene, Alayne Dick, Anna Maclean, and Ginge and Minge. We have returning fan favourites like Gabby Anderson, Samantha Hannah, Jerome Chandrahassen, Keegan Thomas, Leki Lyons, and Joanna Joy. And we have rising stars, and first time guests, Liv Ward and Chen Wang. And holding it all down are your humble co-hosts Lesa MacLeod-Whiting and me, Zach Mandeville! It's like a frickin' double album of the best NZ has to offer, the comedic Nature's Best. You will love it!
5. Surprises we can't mention
You think i'm going to mention them here? You're delulu, mate! But there will be surprises!
So please come, next week, March 7th, at Newtown Community Centre. Buy tickets here!
I have more to say, but I kinda got carried away thinking about this show and you have things to do I am sure! Come out to Newtown this Sunday for Newtown Fest, where Lesa and I will be mc'ing at the community stage! And come out next week! And I'll write y'all again closer to the show to gush more, if that's alright. But for now, let's get outta here, the weather is just too goood!