So what are The Town Bikes up to at the moment? “We have got a really big swag of short acts now and we are currently working on some longer shows that will be our version of a half hour long Itchy & Scratchy cartoon,” Gabi explains. “And next year we will be doing a full hour-long show that we just got funding for so yeah we are getting more and more theatrical!”

And how did The Town Bikes start off? “ It started off with the intention of being a bit of a renegade exercise, so you know just to come out between bands and do this really strange highly choreographed assault and then leave the audience going ‘what the bloody hell was that?’ And yeah it has become a lot more involved. ‘Cause we choreograph everything and we are now cutting our own music – you know we pretty much run Town Bikes HQ (cheekily chuckles) – but we have a costume designer who we work really close with and she has made about eight of our costumes now – she is just a genius and her name is Sprinkle and she is a performer herself.”

What has been the most wonderfully, fabulously amazingly memorable show The Town Bikes have performed? “Well we were just reminiscing recently about the most obscure places we have done shows and we remembered there was one week in particular where we did a show in front of a giant bonfire for about two-thousand kids and their families and then that very night we performed at a Buddhist cabaret fundraiser at a Lithuanian hall and the following week we did a ‘job’…oh, umm, well…a ‘gig’ – shit it will sound strange when I tell you where it was – at a swingers party – (laughing to herself) and that stuff is really fun – you know, putting yourself in a plethora of contexts. We did a performance in Tucson Arizona at an all girls school Roller Derby – that was pretty fun.”

And what can Brizzy audiences expect from your show coming to Ric’s on August 5? “A lot of bombastic manoeuvrers – some serious costumery and props and hopefully the audience will have a laugh – but generally audiences can be left a little agog – you know – with their heads tilted slightly.”


The Town Bikes will set audiences agog at Ric’s on Saturday August 5 with Six Ft Hick and Side Effects – all as part of Ric’s Army Of Darkness gig programme.  
 

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