Another Burgers gig! ! !

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So Burgers will totally be playing another gig soon – a Christmas gig in fact! Not quite a Christmas album (maybe next year, hey?) but close enough. Here are the deets:

Friday, December 23, 2011 at the Velvet Lounge, Mt Lawley from 7:00pm until 12:00am

And the totally sweet line up is:

- Umpire
- The Autumn Isles
- Burgers of Beef
- the wine-dark sea
- The Sensitive Drunks
- Leon Ewing
- Ten Bit Tonsil
and special guest MC Byron Bard

So this is going to be a great night, and what better way to start celebrating Christmas a little early. Cos let’s face it, Christmas is usually a bit lame anyway.

A Gig Retrospective Part 1: The Early Years

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You may or may not be aware that Burgers of Beef have been slogging it out as a band for just over ten (10) years now. In that time, we have played around 120 or so gigs. And yes, it is true, I have kept notes on each and every one of these shows (..well ok, ALMOST all of them, there may be a few I have missed) And so, instead of just keeping this fascinating information to myself, and flicking through it on occasion, remembering the (mostly) good  times, I thought, that I would share it with you all, so you can all reminisce about the gigs you were at, or regret the ones you missed.

Part 1: The Early Years….

1) 16th September 2001 @ Hyde Park Hotel, North Perth, with The Stickfigures & Andrew and Geoff from Adam Said Galore

This was the Burgers debut performance at a pub. Technically our first show was a few weeks earlier at a friend’s party. It was hailed a success (by us anyway) and Chad and I went on to drink all the beer, sitting on the couch right by the stage heckling the Stickfigures.

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Burgers to play at Ya Ya’s

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Yes! That is correct. Another Burgers gig is approaching. It will be on Friday 18th November at Ya Ya’s in Northbridge. It’s going to be awesome, with the wonderful Mitey Ko and lovely The Love Birds playing also. This is one of the few gigs Burgers will be playing this year, so we really hope you can make it down and help make it a great night. It starts around 8pm and costs a mere $8 to get in.

All these details and more can also be viewed in convenient poster form here.

Pete’s Ten Signs of Promise for a Malaysian Restaurant in Perth

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A soloThis laksa was exactly as good as it looks lunch-time sojourn to Ten-Ten’s Kitchen in East Vic Park prompted a review of the various indicators of quality for Malaysian cuisine in a western city. So with the delicious taste of laksa still in his mouth, here’s Pete’s ten signs of promise for a Malaysian restaurant in Perth:

  1. Abrasive maitre d’ barks orders at you on entry
  2. Limited English
  3. Incomprehensibly fast service (tacit to “100 year” laksa pot out back)
  4. No skimping on the egg and bottomless refills of bean sprouts and chilli
  5. Spelling mistakes on menus (such as “BYO wine $4 cockage”)
  6. Yeo’s Soy Bean Drink
  7. Vinyl / no table cloths; outdoor furniture
  8. Laksa blindness sets in on exiting
  9. Next door to one or more other Malaysian restaurants
  10. Cash only