The 13th of this month is the penultimate show in The Last Prom’s 2012 Apocalypse Sequence. It’ll be the last ‘gig’-style show and the last with our existing set of songs. The final show in November will feature 10 all-new numbers that detail the tragic love affair between Death and The Antichrist.

The theme of this show is War, so we’ll be decking out The Front Gallery to look like a fallout shelter. Luke is supporting under his King Handsome Luke guise, as well as The Sinbirds and the ever-amazing Dead DJ Joke.

Our last gig- The Nuclear Winter Ball- ended up being one of the funner dance parties I’ve ever been at, so I’m looking pretty forward to it.

The Last Prom took a 2-day break from readying our stage show to go to Sydney and record. We worked on two singles, ‘Half In Shadow, Half In Light’ and ‘Whatever I Want, All The Time’.

We cut straight onto tape at Linear Studios, which is where Family Pets by Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens (my favourite record by an ACT band!) was recorded.

A summer release date is most likely, but of course they’ll be regular updates here.

The Last Prom is a band/theatre show hybrid I’ve been developing for the last two years. We’ll be presenting the finished version of our show on the 10th of November, meaning the next 8 weeks of my life are about to get totally consumed by it.

The Antichrist, played by me as a colossal pop music nerd, decides to re-imagine the ritual of the Apocalypse as a Hollywood-style High School Prom, and refashions himself and The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse as the greatest pop band history has ever known.

In an effort to keep Armageddon on course, Death (played by Triple J Unearthed darling Julia Johnson) disguises herself as a mortal and sets out to break my heart. The show ends with the complete destruction of time and all existence.

I’ve got a script, a director, a production team, a shit-hot band and 10 all-new original songs that we’re frantically trying to learn. This is a bigger scale than anything I’ve attempted before and I’m quietly terrified, but thrilled to have pulled together such a great team.

Keep updated on the show here or at thelastprom.com.

Friday just gone marked a successful end to 2xx’s fundraising campaign, which will result in all kinds of sweet online content for ACT artists. MC duties were prosecuted by science-fiction-sex themed hip hop act Trendoid and Alphabet. In keeping with recent custom I joined them onstage for a few feature verses, specifically on the tracks ‘Intergalactic Glory Hole’ and ‘Alien Rectum’.

Photos by Adam Thomas.