Wednesday, October 07, 2009

TONY MARTIN!!!

On Monday night Luke & I went to Readings in Carlton to hear Tony Martin do a reading of his new book A Nest of Occasionals. It was absolutely brilliant! Tony is not only very intelligent, but friendly and hilarious! His new book is a collection of stories that have happened to him over the years. He is a very gifted writer and the biggest nerd of all! In a good way of course. He also did a Q&A section at the end which was just wonderful. It was so good to be able to ask him heaps of questions we all wanted to know the answers to. Unfortunately he's been out of the media (largely) for the last 18 months or so (minus about 2 months) so there was lots to ask! Here are some photos from the event.

We also went dressed in capes! Well, bath-towels swirled around our necks anyway. It's a joke from the best radio show of all time, 'Get This' which Tony ran from 2006 - 2007, which he was axed for being too successful. Go figure. Anyway, one of the things they did was Capril. It's just a month where you wear a cape around for no other reason than it's Capril. So as a homage to Get This, we went caped! Got us some extra attention from Tony anyway :)



Hanging out with Tony Martin!


Luke hanging out with Tony.


Reading some of his book.


Reading some of his book.


Thanks for taking this awesome photo Luke...


More reading.


More reading.


Luke & I, capes donned!


He signed my book! The new one he just released.


He signed my other book! The first one of his I bought.

4 Comments:

  1. Ross said...
    You must have been up the front. Now I understand all of T Martin's cape references. Did he say anything about how Mick is these days?
    Ludicrousity said...
    He did. He doesn't mind talking about Mick, but they still aren't 'friends'. I was near the front. I think Luke & I may have been the first ones there. NERDS!
    Luke said...
    It was both fun and nerdy in the extreme.
    Glen O'Brien said...
    Sounds like you had a great night. I always enjoy Tony on tele.

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