BARRIO

Barrio, a bar, venue and all round fun complex built especially for the fringe festival in the heart of the city, designed primarily to stage the artists and performers over the festival, but in the evenings opens up to the public. Every night there’s a chance to gain quick entry given you bring a desired gift, the theme of which changes nightly. We come on a night when the theme of the gift is arts and craft, brilliant, we can do that! I instantly begin fashioning a malteaser box (which by the way, are not the same in Australia), Chaz reaches for a cigarette butt and some old chewing gum and Jaimie disappears, only to return minutes later with an A3 Van Gough style print happened to find on the street!

The place is amazing, built completely from recycled materials. There’s a tequila bar, a toast factory, a large selection of old deep-sea diving equipment, even an area to create your own ornaments at which Jaimie acquires a fawn head plaque and continues to give it a Jackson Pollock meets Freddy Kruger style face lift. The rest of the evening is spent, blind drunk playing paparazzi, snapping Jaimie and her alien fawn growth next to anyone who's interested, and anyone who isn't.

and the madness continued ......