The GO Show
What:
The GO Show
Where:
Buses depart from Footscray Railway Station
When:
Wed Oct 22 - Sat Oct 25
How much:
$15 / $20 from here
In 1984 in Tasmania me and Philip Hawley went on a Uniting Church Mystery Bus Tour. We were both 12 and, on that infamous Murray's coach, the only humans under 65. The tour was shit: after stopping off at a vets and the bone-numbingly boring Ulverstone Maritime Museum we ended up at a yarn market.
MIAF this year has a bus tour too, called The GO Show, and, like my emotionally abusive tour of '84, it promises much: ‘The GO Show is a bus tour(!) where you visit different landmarks(!) and see performances by local residents(!) and artists(!).' 

DESPITE THIS, my trendy and reputable contemporary arts curator-type friends who saw it last time tell me that it is actually really fun.
The local residents part is funny, and the art part is solid. What's more, the bus routes its way through Footscray, our oft-ignored bastard suburb - dinky and cute in a menacing/multicultural way; barking for attention as ‘inner-city' while dead-legging wanky suited-up realtors on Sundays; gazing longingly across the Maribyrnong to Melbourne's twinkling lights like the New Jersey to its Manhattan; where Africans burn the coffee, and the Vietnamese bread is soooo not bread.


The GO Show features work by Ethnic Chinese Happy Age Association, the Western Bulldogs, and karate chopping hip hop artists. Nuff said I reckon. I'm back on the bus!
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Exertion will pay off
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