JANE KELSON Presents WONKY EARS

For many years Jane Kelson thought Paul Young’s 1980’s smash hit “Everytime you go away you take a piece of meat with you” was set in a butcher’s shop (correct lyric is “you take a piece of me with you”). Talking to friends years later, Jane realised she wasn’t the only one who heard songs through wonky ears.

Jane’s fascination with songs of the wonky variety has lead her to collect an amusing assortment of wrongly heard lyrics. In this year’s Midsumma Festival she explores the very funny and downright embarrassing business of hearing things that aren’t intended to be in songs.

“Apart from mishearing lyrics, we tend to hear all ballads as love songs”, says Jane, “And they’re not all love songs. Sometimes they’re actually malicious and sinister and you find people unknowingly serenading their sweethearts to something quite black. It’s a little sad, but very funny”.

This return season of Wonky Ears, at the kooky, quintessentially kitsch The Butterfly Club is an entertaining romp through songs you thought you knew.

“…the intelligent songs of Jane Kelson.” – Joel Crotty, the Age……

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: The Butterfly Club 204 Bank St South Melbourne Dates: Thursday 17 – Sunday 27 January 2008 Tickets: $20/15 concession or groups of 8 Times: 9 pm Thursday – Saturday; 8 pm Sunday Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com; (03) 9690 2000 or at the door E: wonkyears@janekelson.com (NB: no .au)