Join us at Smith’s for an informal evening of songs, stories, tentacle lovin’ and occasional stabbings with poisonous beaks. Cuddlefish, shy elusive creatures that they are, have yet managed to gather a small coterie of entertaining friends and they’ll be assembling at their favourite rocky outcrop in the Monaro Archipelago. Appearing:

Johnny Huckle is a Wiradjuri man. Small of stature, he is big where it matters. So big is his heart they recently had to build a bypass around it. Johnny reaches out through the enormous gulf that divides ‘Aussie’ culture from our Indigenous brothers and sisters. His is a message of love and forgiveness, but also of facing up to the truth of Australia’s dark past.

Tom Woodward. Songwriter. Singer. Guitarist. Marathon runner. Artist. Life model. Disgruntled busker. Tom creates mesmerising finger-picking landscapes and populates them with demons, angels and fables of ordinary lives lived in disturbing times.

Little Bambi Valentine swings between hilarious caricature and heart rending self revelation like a kid on the monkey bars. With themes of social and gender justice forever bubbling below the surface, above lies a delicious sense of fun, raunchy rock ‘n’ roll and totally inappropriate (and utterly compelling) sexuality.

Little known facts about Cuddlefish:

Some time after choosing the name Cuddlefish, Cuddlefish googled Cuddlefish and discovered there was a band called Cuddlefish in Canberra twenty years previously, who put out an album called ‘Harkle’ in 1992. Cuddlefish v.2 have never released an album.

Cuddlefish have played more gigs fully naked than they have fully clothed (This gig will be clothed).