Many moons ago, in 1BC (Before Covid), I booked tickets to see New Zealand comedy legend Urzila Carlson. For my international readership, on whom she may not yet have impinged, she is a South African-born kiwi comedian who is a regular on such shows as 7 Days and Have You Been Paying Attention?
The original gig was scheduled for July, but whilst we were out of lockdown by that stage, it had been rescheduled by then. Never mind, it was paid for, and as soon as the new date was announced (are you listening, Tapeface?1), we put it in the diary.
With a 7:30pm start, we had time for dinner. Unfortunately
Loggy B’s seemed to be fully booked, so we took ourselves off to old fave
Capitol instead, where we had oysters, bruschetta, duck, tuna, cheesecake and
semifreddo. Not all in the same dish, obvs. They’re still on top of their game.
It was very busy for a Wednesday night, but hey, Christmas, innit?
A quick trot up to the Michael Fowler Centre got us there in plenty of time for our places. As so often happens in Wellington, on the way I bumped into one of my colleagues from Zealandia in the street, and then when we got to MFC our former bar manager at The Old Bailey, where we quiz – she’s now working at Four Kings, which is part of the same hospitality group.
As the lights darkened, Urzila’s intro music played…Hungry Like The Wolf! So that put me in a good mood already. The show is your basic stand-up – her with a mic and no props. She started off telling us about her mother’s cat’s visit to the vet, what time to squeeze a cat’s anus, and wandered off into a diatribe about body parts and companies, how to kill a cat, and various other topics. She explained her rage against stupidity, with numerous examples, including the notorious avo squeezers in supermarkets, and how she exacts her revenge on them.
1 Tapeface was also to play a gig in Wellington.
At the moment his Ticketbastard2 status is “date announced soon”.
2 You know who I mean.
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