George Hrab & the Canberra Skeptics

I had a good time at the Skeptics in the Pub event last Sunday. I'd nearly forgotten how much I love listening to live music, and George is a talented musician and an excellent performer. I've seen all sorts of musical acts -- rock, blues, jazz, pop, classical, funk, metal, rap, punk, reggae, ska, R & B, country, alt-rock, rap-metal, etc. but this was the first time I've seen a geek/skeptic/atheist act. With songs like "God is Not Great", "Everything Alive Will Die Someday" and "brainsbodyboth", it was a damned good show.


The geek/skeptic/atheist crowd was okay too (although a few were a bit annoying during some of the audience-participation parts of the show), and I'm planning on going to the next Canberra Skeptics event, a talk by Professor Julian Cribb called "The Coming Famine: Risks and Solutions for Global Food Security". Should be a real hoot! :)

And it wouldn't be a Skeptics in the Pub without the pub, and King O'Malley's is a good one. Maybe a little too upmarket for my tastes (and my wallet), but the beer was good, the decor was interesting, the staff were nice, and the toilets were clean. I started with a Coopers, the a Fat Yak, then a Big Helga's (served in a big "pint" mug), and I finished off with a Guinness, and thoroughly enjoyed each one of them.