critical mass

“Mrs Peacock … are … brilliant … , … shocking … and … over the top … Spot-on!”
- Simon Sweetman, Dominion Post, Friday 19 May

Reviews have got to be the best part of the Festival. We just love them. There's nothing like the opinion of someone who didn't pay to come to your show and probably isn't part of your target demographic to really warm the cockles of your heart.

Actually we've never had a festival show reviewed before (aside from a one line gripe from Lynn Freeman in the Capital Times about having to miss our show because we didn't start on time) so this is quite a novel experience.

Firstly, Jess Manins of the Lumiere Reader has given us a rather nice review - though she does take issue with the number of poos and wees jokes in our set. In response we'd like to point out that poos and wees are nothing to be embarassed or uncomfortable about. Everybody does them. Even people who've been in terrible accidents and have to use some sort of poo-bag apparatus.

And Simon Sweetman gave us an absolutely glowing review in the Dominion Post, the highlight of which is above. Thanks Simon - you'll always have a special place in our hearts (the full review is not online, but will be posted in comments).

[UPDATE]: Just noticed a little something about the names of all of the reviewers mentioned above - check it out...

Simon Sweetman
Lynn Freeman
Jessica Manins

But what does it all mean? I have no idea.]

[UPDATE 2]: We've also had an indifferent review from Melody Nixon at Lumiere (who says what we did, but doesn't mention how well we did it - although she did say that our melodies were "sweet"), as well as a a somewhat less than nice one from Kate Chapman at the same site.

Kate says that our "lyrics were not particularly amusing". I guess that's what we get for trying to address the issues. The haters just don't understand that we're doing it all for the kids.

last chance to see WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT in Wellington

Our second and final Wellington perfomance of mrs.peacock's WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT is tonight (that's Thursday 18 May) at the San Francisco Bathhouse.

Opening night last night was awesome (even if we do say so ourselves) and tonight should be even better.

Bloody well come along, why dontcha.

mrs.peacock get reviewed

Our recent gig at Comedy Underground was reviewed in Salient - Comedy Underground have reprinted the review for your reading pleasure but the relevant part is this:

Headlining the gig was the superstar musical comedy duo Mrs. Peacock. I have seen each performer individually before but despite having heard their songs I have never heard them perform live together. I was not disappointed. They sang and played like angels with boy band like harmonic perfection but god they were smutty and offensive. Because of their wonderfully boyish charm they somehow pull off singing about things like giving their girlfriend’s father a reach around without actually offending anyone.

And I didn't even need to quote anything out of context to make us sound good, which was choice.