Bryce Halliday to Tour New Solo Show in Melbourne

Bryce Halliday returns to Melbourne for two nights at Dr Sugar. With a new show that fuses stand up comedy with sound art. Using only a keyboard, an ukulele, and over 130 sound effects launched live on stage.

Since touring his previous show, The Bryce Is Right, to the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival last year, Bryce Halliday has been working on a new musical comedy show that takes things to the next level. After a knock out debut season at the Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival last month (that featured a brass band escorting the audience out of the theatre) Bryce returns to Melbourne for two nights of his new show SOUND huMAN at Dr Sugar in Prahran.

Beguilingly friendly and warm, Bryce starts out with some stand up about growing up in Nowra NSW and the odd jobs he has taken over the years, but soon swerves off into a combination of intellectual humour, slapstick, sound effects and music, that range in topic from an an ode to Leigh Sales, a pedestrian facing an existential crisis at a set of traffic lights, a ditty about bigamy, a dance party on a train, and an extended aural rollercoaster journey into the mind and the imagination. With over 130 sound effects cued live from stage it's a feast for the senses that takes inspiration in equal measure from Reggie Watts, Bill Bailey and Regina Spektor.

Bryce is a musician, comedian and sound designer from Sydney. Shortly after completing his Bachelor of Music Theatre in 2011, he won the Showcase Award at the 9th Annual Australian Cabaret Showcase. He has since been a prolific contributor of sound and music to a variety of theatrical productions, short films, video games, podcasts and radio.

Bryce is also in demand as an improvising musician and while he's in town he will be playing for Amanda Buckley's Improvised Song Contest YOUROVISION at The Butterfly Club.

"Halliday's voice is as smooth as his delivery and his musicality is first rate. Not only does he have a knack for melody and harmony, but his compositions are eclectic and driven by passionate ideas. Many of the songs rely heavily on synthesisers and sampling, and it means that Halliday really is his own one-man band." - Ben Neutze, DailyReview

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