Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 21 July
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
To coincide with the publication of Tony Wilson’s much anticipated second novel, Making News, join the two Tonys as they discuss celebrity culture, media, sport, comedy writing and much more.
Featuring
Tony Martin
Tony Martin’s credits include The D-Generation, The Late Show, Martin/Molloy, Get This and Upper Middle Bogan. He appeared in Kath & Kim, Crackerjack, Thank God You’re Here and is in The Castle for nine seconds. Nine long seconds.
He is the author of three books and four angry letters to the Age Green Guide. His two most recent Melbourne Fringe shows, The Yeti and The Arse/Elbow Equation, both sold out and attracted rave reviews. He is currently hooning about on the Nova100 breakfast show, and touring with Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine. A new book will be published later this year and pulped shortly after that.
Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson is an author of more than 20 books for all ages and several genres. His picture books Hickory Dickory Dash and The Cow Tripped Over the Moon were bestseller and both were selected as National Simultaneous Storytime titles. His most recent book for adults is 1989: The Great Grand Final (Hardie Grant, 2020)
Tony was a long-time member of the Breakfasters team on Triple R and has a regular segment on ABC Mornings with Sammy J. He co-directed and produced the sports documentary feature The Galahs: A Footy Journey, A Sporting Odyssey (Sepia Tones Productions) which premiered at MIFF in 2016.
He also hosts a website and podcast called Speakola, which is dedicated to great speeches, famous and otherwise. Guests on the podcast have included Stan Grant, Kate Mulvany, Nelly Thomas and Andrew Denton.