Tomas Ford’s Good Music Cave Party

Don’t you sometimes just feel like sharing the collective trauma of watching a DJ attempt to put on a large-scale pop spectacle, fail miserably and then lose their mind?

Well, on Saturday night at the Butterfly Club you can, thanks to electronic cabaret performer, Tomas Ford and his Good Music Cave Party. Hailing from Perth, Ford combines a strange mix of video projections, live electronic music and audience interaction into a silly, odd and fun show.

Ford has taken this show all around Australia and the UK, where it is considered cabaret. Here, we treat it as part of the live music circuit. Whatever genre you want to call it, he has enjoyed much success, with several awards to prove it.

‘There aren’t many contexts in Australia where I can comfortably put on a show, but the Butterfly Club is a place where this type of thing just makes sense.’

I can’t say I still really understand what will happen when Ford emerges from behind closed curtains in the dark and dingy Butterfly Club, but isn’t that what makes this all the more intriguing?

In the early noughties, when electro-clash was a thing, Ford was touring the country making raw electronica and jumping around punk rock clubs. Somehow he made the progression into electronic cabaret, and this love of playing in ‘any shithole that would have us play’ slowly turned into playing at fringe festivals – places where people were more likely to say, ‘yeah, we know what this is!’

So it is safe to say, Ford has found his niche. And if you are confused, intrigued, or just enjoy allowing a performer to drag you down into a whirlpool of insecurities, Radiohead, The Cure, and original songs that tell scary stories; this is the show for you.

Good Music Cave Party
The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne
Saturday November 21, 10:30pm
thebutterflyclub.com/show/tomas-ford-s-good-music-cave-party