The Supper Show celebrated its first anniversary last Wednesday night with the inaugural Supper Show awards. Far from being an obsequious display of backslapping and self-puffery, the glittering spectacle honoured those whose presence, participation, and punctuality have made the Supper Show the weekly cultural phenomenon that it is every, er, week.
21 Tandem Repeats warmed up the crowd for about 20 minutes, soothing jittery nerves with numbers such as "Fuse Lit Bombs" and "Melanoma," a relatively new song that bears the unmistakable Velvet Touch of Willingdon Black.
Finally some puppets took the podium and announced the start of the award ceremony. The first award went to Mule Hughes for Best Impersonation of a Puppet. A convergence of cosmic importance occurred when The Mule finally met his puppet double and, being so moved and obviously stricken, warbled a verse of "Working Man" with the house band of Rojas/Hobbs/Black.
The awards continued in a similar vein, with appearances from the Penus Puppet, Baboon Torture Division, Shockk (who accepted awards both for himself and on behalf of Land of Deborah), CT, Andrew Parker (an upset winner for Best Horn Player), Eyes, Snapshot, King Dinosaur, Pockets, Fireman, the Railway waitrixes...basically the pantheon of the Supper Show universe.
Apologies to those who were passed over in this report. They certainly didn't lack for kudos last Wednesday. At the Super Robertson Supper Show, everyone's a winner!
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