Zoe Barron, Journalist

“All those harmonies and those chord progressions. They are something I get so much pleasure out of.”

"I think a lot about some of the situations I went through as an 18, 19-year-old, and the sort of bluff that men go through, specifically growing up in WA, and thinking, you know, there were a few close calls."

Overall, the evening was a very good demonstration of how it’s the small gigs that truly test the grace and integrity of an artist.

"The character’s a weird girl, and I’m a little bit weird."

"Going out on your own, I think there’s something that is quite powerful about that. It’s being at the opposite end of spectrum – it carries the same kind of weight."

"The first show that we played, when I was 15, was in front of some old guys in front of TAB machines all yelling at us to stop interrupting their gambling."

Genroulette emerged as acting exercises with audience attached, but it also provided the privilege of watching actors at play, and, with its scattering of glowing moments, was still relatively easy to leave with a grin.

Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds were a slightly awkward fit for the Perth Comedy Festival.

"Our relationship in the play is very complex and very thick with emotional undertones. You know, because it’s a 40-year relationship of a father and son who have gone through difficult times, losing a mother and wife respectively."

"I had this kind of confusion that if I put my work out and then people actually came back and said it was shit, then that would confirm what I’ve always thought about it anyway."

“It was more a reflection on what I’d left behind. I love where I’ve come to. But I guess I felt like I had to honour what I’d left behind.”

“A piece of cake is always a tasty treat at parties, and that’s what we’d like to serve our audience."