Head Cases

"Your head just opened up; notes came out. What more can I say."
- Marcia Hines, a.k.a. The Best Thing To Come Out Of This Country Descriptively



As if to honour the disco decade, Marcia's acid trips from the 70s caught up with her tonight in brilliant fashion, prompting sister-girlfriend to hallucinate dramatically over Lavina's performance and also inadvertently paraphrase the entire night.

But while the opening of heads was, sadly, only figurative, in many loungerooms the bleeding of eardrums and corneas was real.

The principal perpetrators:



The worst 2 by a disco mile, alleged singer-songwriters Damien and Lisa are at least guaranteed of cross-promotion on Channel 10's other excruciating output The Wedge after their hilarious comedy performances.

The comic theme was further exemplified by Lisa's decision to dress up like famous French mime Marcel Marceau. Cruelly, Baby-girlfriend reneged on a complete homage by opening her head. Oh well.

The rest:

6. Ricky Muskrat


It's only fitting after Lavina's Jordan tribute jugs graced the stage that Ricky would follow with a song famously covered by Peter Andre. Not god-awful, but the time is drawing near.

5. Chris Murphy


Porky went the whole hog with the farming theme, donning a leather jacket for his performance of "Play That Funky Music". Although undeniably white, Chris' only other claim to the adjective "funky" is when he lifts his arms. Still, those dodgy spoken bits aside, this was far too good for my liking.

4.Lavina Williams


With a clear 3rd finger to Kyle, Lavina's tatts were on full display again this week. They weren't the only things. Unfortunately, there wasn't much room left for the voice - it was all a bit of a screechfest and there was no money note.

3.Dean Geyer


I promised myself I would be a Dean convert if he opened singing, "TURN IT UP TURN IT UP TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN!" Gloria Estefan-style with a set of maracas. He chose the song's original intro but elected to finish by literally turning upside down instead. Nice work. Nice, too, to see Courtney Act leading the Dean Gayer cheersquad.

2. Jessica Mauboy

"On The Radio" is a prescient song title for this future recording artist. Looking more and more like the winner, Jess amusingly described Kyle's super-positive feedback after her performance as "haunting". Perhaps she meant "predatory".

1.Bobby Flynn


Another dubiously delivered touchdown by Mark but an excellent, unique, interesting performance. This article goes a bit overboard but Bobby does very clearly bring a freshness to the show by being an actual musician. It's hilarious to note how Marcia and John Foreman appear to have slyly withheld from the other contestants - Lisa in particular - that an acoustic (and actually listenable) re-imagining of a disco classic could have been possible with a different arrangement, which is exactly what Bobby brilliantly did.

Instead, it looks like Lisa's guitarless heart of glass will be next to shatter. Tune in tonight to find out.