Lawrence Mooney goes bush in new show

COMEDIAN Lawrence Mooney is bringing his new stand-up show Dead Set Country to Byron Bay this October, sharing stories of city life gone bush, complete with horses, dead wombats and a tractor romance.

Mooney will perform at the Byron Community Centre and Byron Theatre on October 25.

Dead Set Country is an hour of new material about a city boy gone bush.

“Roughed up by locals, mourning dead wombats, talking with horses and having an abiding affair with a tractor, Mooney is ‘Dead Set Country.'”

Lawrence Mooney is an acclaimed stand-up comedian of over thirty years. He has toured all over the country with his best mates in the hit show The Comedians and is a regular on TV shows like The Front Bar, The Back Page, Have You Been Paying Attention, The Project and more.

“The country in Australia is used as a stamp of approval, if something has country in front of it, it usually means it’s good and trustworthy,” Mooney said.

“We moved to the country, and moved onto land because my daughter wanted to start riding horses. This came with some big learning curves in my middle age.”

“There’ll be horses, drinking in the country, and things we don’t have like activewear, which I don’t think is a bad thing. But men do wear bike shorts, and that is a mess.”

“This show has been very well reviewed, and people are saying it’s my strongest work in a while, so I’ll back myself there,” he added.

“You can guarantee you’ll get a bit of highbrow, a good dose of low brow and some middle brow.”

The show is recommended for audiences aged 15+, with strong language advised.

Tickets are available at lawrencemooney.com