Get naked this festival with Muz and Marco

If you want a whole lot of fun this Festival, don’t miss Muz and Marco – The Naked Truth.

Yes, those wizards of wit, the masters of mayhem, Marco Gliori and Murray Hartin, are back at The Tamworth Golf Club for four shows only so book early.

These blokes have written some of the best comic verse you’re likely to hear and if you think Muz’s Turbulence is a cracker, wait ’til Marco unloads on him with his version of the real story.

With The Naked Poets calling it a day after 13 years, the boys are finally coming good on a plan they concocted when they first met at The Imperial Hotel in 1990.

So if they say good things take time, this show should be bloody brilliant.

“Yeah, we’ve had 20 years to put this together and we still don’t know what we’re doing,” Muz said. “The core of it is much the same as The Naked Poets each year but somehow we got there and look, we just want to have a nice laid-back time with hopefully a lot of laughs.”

With such a huge body of work behind them, to match the huge bellies in front of them, the toughest assignment could well be deciding what to leave out, with hit poems such as The Mr Whippy Rip-Off, The Hog Whisperer, The Breast-Feeding Heckler and Dr Death all likely to draw requests.

“We could mix and match a bit from show to show,” Marco said. “Sometimes you just know that a certain poem’s going to work because of the audience so you throw it in. You have to be flexible so you can go with the energy.”

As you’d expect, the show has the potential to be a little left field.

“It’s a two-man show with a difference,” Muz said. “We’ve got an extra man. So it’s a two-man show with a bonus bloke, Brad. Brad McLean is a very funny bugger – he’s got a song called Inflatable Lady which just has to be heard. But because Brad’s name doesn’t start with ‘M’ he couldn’t be part of the official two-man show. Plus an official two-man show with three men would be ridiculous. It’s numerically impossible for a start.”

Muz and Marco are often at their best when in ad-lib mode on stage together and The Naked Truth will allow for plenty of this. There’ll be poems, yarns, songs, a bit of theatre and, no doubt, some unexpected surprises.

So to see the best three-man, two-man show in town, book your tickets for Muz and Marco – The Naked Truth at Tamworth Golf Club on 6765 9393. Tickets are $20.

Showtimes are: Evenings – 7.30pm Friday, January 22 and Saturday, January 23

Matinees – 11am Saturday, January 23, Sunday, January 24.

Photo: The Northern Daily Leader.