[2014062] Miss K is… Wrong.com!
Klara McMurray @ La Bohème
6:00pm, Wed 26 Feb 2014
Technology, eh? Love it. Cabaret, yeah? I can dig, I can dig. Précis promising sly digs at reality TV? Alright, you’ve won me over.
That’s pretty much the thought process that led me to LaB on this Wednesday evening (in what was becoming a hotly-contested timeslot). I’ve no idea why the half-dozen other people had elected to be there, but I suspect that there may have been a few media freebies amongst them. No-one – except for me, with my perennially optimistic smile – seemed super happy to be there… not even after being given a free copy of her Miss K’s previous CD, IL Mio Amore.
Which, now that I think about it, should’ve been a hint.
Klara McMurray’s alter-ego, Miss K, arrives in a tizzy: she’s fresh off a plane (after her “spiritual” trip to India – cue food & faecal jokes), and the batteries in her phone – her lifeline to the world – are dead. She’s desperate for a drink and – more importantly – to let others know she’s desperate for a drink… She wants to be seen. To be noticed.
To go viral.
And there’s the core of Miss K is… Wrong.com!. A handful of songs – some amusing with clever wordplay, some cringingly poor and misguided – are interspersed with some banter about her travels and travails; her problems are most certainly from the First World, however, and fretting about not being able to Instagram her lunch is as perilous as it gets.
And whilst one or two jokes about Facebook or Twitter work well, too many were contrived and hackneyed, leading to the feeling that Miss K wasn’t really as au fait with her subject matter as she’d like you to think. While Miss K’s vocals are strong enough on their own, there was also an audience singalong segment: with such a small audience, this was as awkwardly bad as could be expected. But there wasn’t not enough content here to justify the effort (or, more importantly at this time of year, the time); needless to say, I left this show a little bit sad that I hadn’t seen something else instead.
(Also: I find it quite amusing that Miss K’s Wikipedia Page still exists; I’d have expected that the Wiki Police would have ripped down that autobiographical advertising almost immediately!)
(62) Miss K is… Wrong com!: A whirlwind that never quite hits the spot. Would benefit from generous tech-savvy crowd. #ff2014 #ADLfringe
— Pete Muller (@festivalfreakAU) February 26, 2014