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Chit Chat Lounge

Chit Chat Lounge



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15 January, 2009
Vehicular homicide wrapped up in layers of delicious chocolate

Best described as a car-wreck of a talk show that features stolen jokes, crappy videos, asinine interviews and some of the worst singing since Rick Astley rocked a mic, the Chit Chat Lounge is back.

The Chit Chat Lounge, the boozy late night home for the 2009 New Zealand Fringe Festival, returns for a third season of hilarious ineptitude – and let's pray that this time they don't stuff it up.

It is a good-natured car crash of a chat show that people flock to night after night for the best in gossip and insider tidbits concerning all things Fringe.

The Chit Chat Lounge promises a Fringe-centric view of all that’s happening. From in-depth interviews to tasty snippets of performances at this year's Fringe Festival, co-hosts Derek Flores and Vinyl Burns lead you kicking and screaming through the twisty maze of theatre, dance, and art like an uncle you don‘t trust all that much.

This year The Chit Chat Lounge has found a new home at the corner of Cuba and Ghuznee, a site renowned for its convergence of the best of late night talent Wellington has to offer: glue sniffers, stumbling drunkards and post-work transvestites.

Once known as Blue Note, the Wellington hospitality institution is undergoing an extreme makeover to be relaunched as Fringe Bar, as a dedicated comedy venue. The old parable of the old tarted up whore has never been more apt… if there ever was such a parable.

Combining all the best ideas stolen from other people; videos, music, and jokes; The Chit Chat Lounge will be as regular as bran in your Fringe diet. And it's FREE!

Opens Friday February 6, every Tuesday to Saturday during Fringe 09 at 10pm.
Where? The Fringe Bar, 191 Cuba St.
How much? FREE

www.thefringebar.co.nz
www.myspace.com/chitchatlounge
www.myspace.com/fringenz


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