Past Event

Just Like Heaven

16th Apr 2011

Presenter: Bella Union Events
Website: http://www.bellaunion.com.au
Event Duration: 150 minutes

Since 2004, Scott Edgar (Tripod) and collaborators have staged an annual special benefit concert to raise funds for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. They've marshalled a bevy of Australia's top musical and comic talents in tribute to a different legendary artist each year, and raised over $20,000 in the process. From 2004's Ray Charles Tribute to the purple extravaganza that was 2008's 23 Positions In A One-Night Stand to last year's Something Good Carole King celebration, it's always been a great big bag bulging with many different varieties of fun.

But this year's concert finds us a little unsettled. One minute, we're full of moody discontent; the next, we're giddy with infectious joy. Look up and we're dancing in the ocean's shallows; look again and we're sulking in the back of the closet, drawing spiderwebs on our hands. Then the next thing you know we're playing dress-ups and blowing each other kisses and generally running around in circles 'til we run out of breath. Confused? Don't be. It can only mean one thing.

The 2011 Asylum Seeker Resource Centre benefit is dedicated to those beloved lipstick-smeared love cats and kings of wild mood swings: The Cure. A bubbling cauldron of artists will gather to pay tribute to the musical stylings of Robert Smith and company in a night that will be Just Like Heaven.

Rebecca Barnard, Clare Bowditch, Casey Bennetto, Defah Dattner, Die Roten Punkte, Scott Edgar, Georgia Fields, Steven Gates, Simon Hall, Angie Hart, Kirsty Joosten, Xani Kolac, Aurora Kurth, Andrew McClelland, Ali McGregor, Mike McLeish, Eddie Perfect, Geraldine Quinn, D. Rogers, Nicholas Roy, Wes Snelling and many, many more will be on hand to offer up their renditions of Cure classics like Close To Me, Pictures Of You, The Love Cats, "Let's Go To Bed, Friday I'm In Love, In Between Days, Why Can't I Be You? and others.

It's gonna be a cracker, so get your tickets early or you may find yourself crying - yes, boys, even you.

All proceeds will be heading straight to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.