365 Pink Feather Boas All in a Row - Day 205 (Saturday 24 July 2010) : No Barnacles on Bill!

As part of my gorgeous guy's birthday gift, I bought him and I tickets to see Bill Bailey at the State Theatre.

We both love him, primarily from his role in Black Books, but went to see his musically-based stand up routine - he is a very talented singer and musician - on the recommendation of a good friend at work.

He was HILARIOUS!

We didn't stop laughing from start to finish, after Bill went from one piece of inspired lunacy to another, interspersed with great audience participation and wonderful visuals, that neatly summed up everything he had referred to during his routine. It is impossible to do any of the routines justice - one exchange about an Iranian instrument called an Ood with an audience member featured riffs on infinity loops of conversation, winged crabs in a post apocalyptic world, and the rise and fall of empires just to give you some idea of the lunacy at work - but suffice to say we just laughed and laughed and laughed at his witty observations, clever music and even poetry (he finished with a poem about being dumped that finished with "I can't wait till I have you back / Till then I'm like Whitney without crack"!) and even got a bonus 20 minutes of performance when we came back out after the house lights had gone up, and caught most of unawares. Thankfully Steve & I were still in the theatre and were able to catch him for his impromptu extra bits.

Most importantly Steve loved his present and that alone made the tickets worth the price of admission!