The Woodford Files: Moochers Inc.

December 18, 2014 at 08:37 (Festival News, Interviews)
Tags: Cameron Smith, canberra, Moochers Inc, Overheard Productions, Rafe Morris, Woodford, woodford folk festival, Woodfordia

The wonderful Woodford Folk Festival kicks off on the Sunshine Coast hinterland in a magical kingdom called Woodfordia on Saturday 27 December 2014, and ends in a fiery extravaganza on the evening of Thursday 1 January 2015.

If you’ve not experienced Woodford before, then don’t delay. There’s still time to kennel the cat, grab your significant other, and point the wagon train north to Caboolture* and peel off left. Or south to Palmview and peel off to the right past Beerwah.

Ok, I could keep going but you’ve probably got Google Maps too, so you can keep playing at home if you like.

This is the first in a series of interviews, vignettes**, features and story-ettes that will seek to entice you off the couch and away from the Boxing Day Test to a sport far more interactive (and you can get in on the cricket action with the Woodford XI).

OR if geographically, monetarily, fiscally-responsibly***, or familyscomeoverfromSweden-ly you’re not able to, you can pull up a bean bag, grab a bag of Smith’s Chips and a Passiona and tune in for a Christmas and New Year of music, song, dance, spoken word, art, community, and probably a shipload of rain and mud OR stinking heat and 40+ degree external saunas.

Me, I personally take Woodfordia in all its many-splendoured glories. If life sends you a baking sidewalk, cook eggs and bacon. (I was never into lemons or lemonade.)

First cab off the rank is a wonderfully fun, fast and very toight outfit from Canberra called Moochers Inc. As Rafe Morris says in the interview, they’re a band for dancing, singing and drinking with — during the show, and before and after if the mood takes you and them.

Warning: jazz students sitting in the first row trying to follow the complex chord progressions, you may have your view impeded by writhing, sweaty, beautiful young dancing bodies. Which can’t be a bad thing. I’d jump right in, if I were you.

I probably will.

Gig dates and times for The Moochers Inc. at Woodford:

Sunday 28 December, 5pm – Parlour
Tuesday 30 December, 5.30pm – Bluestown
Wednesday 31 December, 1.05am – Parlour
Thursday 1 January, 12 noon – Bluestown (Old Timey Concert)

 

* ‘North To Caboolture’ is the original song title until ‘Spud’ McGinty fell on hard times, actually did lose the bottom out of his tweeds, and sold the rights to the US where ‘Alaska’ was chosen as it scanned better.

** If you are trying one of our vignettes, I recommend the saucier’s favourite which is a white wine ‘Inclination’ fusion with Aldi’s finest $2.69 range. Actually, it’s just gone up to $2.79. Zut alors!

*** Inset your own devastatingly edgy political joke with a gratuitous GFC reference.

ENDS