The doctor is in

I am suspecting I am going to get teased big time for this post, but oh well.

I went to a concert last night. It was pretty good. They did quite a few indie covers, but then it deviated into standard cover band land of 'Livin' on a Prayer' by Bon Jovi, '500 Miles' by the Proclaimers and 'Hey Jude' by the Beatles. I probably didn't even need to say the bands just then, but you never know, some reader may not know the tunes.

Yeah, so this band. They were pretty good. It was at a uni bar. Good cheap drinks in plastic cups, made us reminisce a bit.

They were an Australian band. They had a merchandise table set up and a few people were buying t-shirts and stuff.

But obviously this band had fallen for that dreaded curse that '30 Odd Foot of Grunt' fell for. You know them, those people who play instruments while Russell Crowe parades around pretending to sing or something. The dreaded curse that lame bands fall for that seems to make them think that having a celebrity up front will get them some cred, airplay, sex, I don't know.

However, this happened to be a low, low grade of celebrity. Not that I can really say anything. My name was at the door as a VIP... Oh the shame.

The "celebrity" was Dr Karl from Neighbours.

Part of the show was giving a blow by blow of his love life in the history of the show. Riveting stuff. When he finished that little tale, he proceeded to sing "Living Next Door to Alice", but changed the name to "Living Next Door to Susan". To those not aware of Neighbours, Susan is the name of the character who plays his wife. So of course, the song was complete with the audience screaming back:

"Susan! Susan! Who the fuck is Susan?!"

For the first two songs, myself and most of the girls in the area I was standing in were just killing ourselves laughing. It just seemed so wrong seeing this guy up there strutting his stuff.

Good for a laugh though and he sang good songs, so there you go. Apparently starring in pantomimes isn't the only thing Australian soap stars do in the off season.

The sad thing was, there were far too many Neighbours fans there for my liking AND they played the bloody theme song at the end. Oh the shame.