GUD Articles/Reviews

[Beckslee]

Originally Posted by Stripes

i agree, where's the stuff about the funky keyboard Cameron? where? stupid journos

especially as cameron has described his character in Gud as.

"My job is to be as disgusting as I possibly can" which is actually what Paul's role in DAAS was

[smuffy]

At risk of starting a fight -
Does this mean that Paul is now the charismatic good-looking one?

[smuffy]

Yeah but he said that in the Dougs when he was pretending to be a goateed lady

[Stripes]

Originally Posted by smuffy

At risk of starting a fight -
Does this mean that Paul is now the charismatic good-looking one?

PFFFFFTTTT!!! :p .....just kidding.

[Munchkin]

Originally Posted by Munchkin

at Civic Theatre Newcastle on June 21,

Newcastle Herald 22/05/2003

"PAUL McDermott's GUD - Hard Core Cabaret plays at Civic Theatre Newcastle on Thursday, June 19, not June 21, as reported yesterday."

Isn't that the kind of thing we usually pick up on, we're slipping kiddies.

[Munchkin]

The Civic website says

PAUL McDERMOTT
Civic Theatre Newcastle
Thursday 19 June 2002 at 8pm
From a captivating career as host of television show 'Good News Week', breakfast personality on national youth radio network Triple J, and a life on stage as The Angry One from 'The Doug Anthony Allstars', Paul McDermott will head hard and fast for Newcastle with a brand new cabaret show, GUD: HARDCORE CABARET.


Newwy knows what the most important part is :p

[Rock Angel]

Originally Posted by Munchkin

Newcastle Herald 22/05/2003

"PAUL McDermott's GUD - Hard Core Cabaret plays at Civic Theatre Newcastle on Thursday, June 19, not June 21, as reported yesterday."

Isn't that the kind of thing we usually pick up on, we're slipping kiddies.

lol - i read that article first and went - alright a Saturday - i can have a big one, and then i read the add and went - ooh thats a Thursday. I thought i musta been drunk earlier. glad it was the Herald and not me

[Munchkin]

Lake Macquarie News


Top comedy with Paul McDermott

FROM an alluring career as host of television show Good News Week, breakfast personality on Triple J, and stage performances with The Doug Anthony Allstars, Paul McDermott heads for Newcastle with a new show GUD at the Civic Theatre on June 19.
In true McDermott style, GUD is simultaneously witty, cynical and brutally honest.
It became one of the hottest tickets at Melbourne's International Comedy Festival in April last year, and has since experienced sellout success in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney.
GUD takes on topics as diverse as advice for children (``learned from a lifetime of pain and failure''), modern fashion, 21st century parenting and Australian folk heroes to name a few of the myriad of topics GUD has turned its fertile collaborative mind to address.
It was awarded the prestigious 2003 Age Critics Award for Most Outstanding Show.
GUD is performed in a musical format and features a selection of hilarious new original songs from McDermott, Mick Moriarty and keyboardist Cameron Bruce. This is the only chance audiences will have to see Paul McDermott in Newcastle this year, for the first time since 1991 when he performed here with the Doug Anthony Allstars.

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There's a picture, but once again I don't know which one.

[Rock Angel]

Originally Posted by Munchkin

This is the only chance audiences will have to see Paul McDermott in Newcastle this year, for the first time since 1991 when he performed here with the Doug Anthony Allstars.

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There's a picture, but once again I don't know which one.

*Coughspluttercoughchokecough* Not True.

I'll find the article and scan the pic.

[Munchkin]

Gud forgive him
Sydney Morning Herald 06/06/2003

Paul McDermott knows not what he does. But hopefully he will when Gud opens next week, reports Bonnie Malkin.

GUD
Where The Basement, 29 Reiby Place, Circular Quay
When Tuesday and Wednesday, 9.30pm
How much $25
More information 9251 2797

The show Gud has proved itself to be a success on the entertainment circuit.

Part stand-up, part cabaret and part social parody, it deals with some of life's most important issues. This year it scooped the Age Critics Award for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Yet Paul McDermott, Gud's leading man and founder, says the show, cobbled together by McDermott and a couple of mates, seemed at first like a bad idea.


"At the end of Good News Week [in 2001], Mick Moriarty and I were sitting down chatting and he suggested getting a show together, which I thought was stupid," he says. "Then I came around to the idea."

McDermott and Moriarty set about writing the show and trialling it on unsuspecting crowds.

"The first show we ever did was at Sydney University," says McDermott.

"It came together in a couple of weeks and was an absolute disaster. Surprisingly, out of the fires something good happened, and by our second and third shows we were fine."

However, Gud still needed a name for the Melbourne Comedy Festival and entries were almost closed.

"One night the Grammys were on and we saw everyone thanking God in their American accents," says McDermott. "That's how we came up with the name Gud, so we could take all the glory."

After the 2002 Melbourne Comedy Festival and a break of eight months, McDermott, Moriarty and keyboard player Cameron Bruce took Gud on tour.

"It was meant to be a warm-up for the Melbourne Festival in 2003, but we ended up just using old stuff which was quite popular," says McDermott.

The troupe got their act together in time for this year's festival, leading to further acclaim and The Age award.

"Last year we focused on the issue of family, and then finished up with something on September 11," says McDermott. "This year at the festival we did stuff on advertising, business and terrorism."

And what can people expect in Sydney?

"So far we haven't written anything since then for the Sydney shows," says McDermott, perhaps tongue in cheek, "so audiences can expect the same as earlier in the year."

[Munchkin]

Newcastle Herald
05/06/2003

McDermott gets in GUD with the media
according to Linda Barnier & Michael Gadd

PAUL McDermott and his GUD mates visited Newcastle yesterday to schmooze local media in preparation for the June 19 opening of the group's award-winning show at Civic Theatre.
The trio, including multi-talented musicians Mick Moriarty (The Gadflys) and Cameron Bruce (The Polaroids), were subjected to a host of radio and press interviews.

Strangely the three, who won The Age 2003 critic's award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, were forbidden by their management to pose for photos.

But they were well-received by all who met them.

McDermott's old Triple J radio mate Maynard, of 1233 ABC Newcastle, got the best out of the three while preparing material for a Queen's birthday weekend special.

All rampant republicans, and mighty witty with their sentiments, that interview will be well worth a listen.

McDermott was also reunited with a fan from the early 1990s.

In 1994, ``Generik", as he would like to be known, had the Doug Anthony All Stars (McDermott, Tim Ferguson and Richard Fiddler) draw cartoons on his right thigh after a show at the Maitland City Bowling Club. The next day he had the drawings professionally transformed into tattoos.

McDermott, the star of the irreverent show dubbed ``hard core cabaret", was so impressed by Generik's gesture, he gave him four free tickets to see the show.

Tickets are on sale now.

[Stripes]

what a nutter. but a pretty clever way to snatch free tix all the same, and you'd have cool DAASy pictures forever...hmmm maybe not such a bad idea after all :lookarou:

[MagNar]

Originally Posted by Munchkin

McDermott's old Triple J radio mate Maynard, of 1233 ABC Newcastle, got the best out of the three while preparing material for a Queen's birthday weekend special.

1233 ABC Newcastle? Excuse my ignorance, but can this be heard anywhere outside of Newcastle? I live in South Australia which, as we all know, is an outer suburb of Newcastle, but I still don't think I'll be able to pick it up on my radio. Anyone have any ideas?

[Munchkin]

Penrith Press
10/06/03

Paul's back and eyeing new targets

AFTER the Doug Anthony All Stars folded, the mercurial Paul McDermott reinvented himself as the host of TV's Good News Week.
Now that GNW is gone, the wickedly witty comedian with the singing voice of an angel has morphed into a new show, GUD, co-starring former Gadfly guitarist Mick Moriarty and Cameron Bruce, the Club Luna Band keyboardist.
Like DAAS, this new act features satire, songs and the ability to offend anyone within earshot, but now there is a whole new set of targets.
Ivan Milat is one, and Osama Bin Laden, whose invisibility is serenaded in We Don't Know Where to Find Him, sung to the tune of I Don't Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar.
Even the late TV gardener Alan Seale gets his own song.
You can catch McDermott's new show at the Clarendon Hotel, Katoomba, on Friday.
Bookings: 4782 1322.

[Rock Angel]

Originally Posted by MagNar

1233 ABC Newcastle? Excuse my ignorance, but can this be heard anywhere outside of Newcastle? I live in South Australia which, as we all know, is an outer suburb of Newcastle, but I still don't think I'll be able to pick it up on my radio. Anyone have any ideas?

heres the link for the article

http://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/stories/s874062.htm


Gud, seen here with Maynard, looking embarrassed, fill us in on their special birthday message to the Queen as well as telling us their favourite UK pop songs.