Christa Hughes is OZ ROCKIN' THE LADIES LOUNGE at Arts Centre Melbourne

Singing sensation, vaudeville vamp and rock'n'roll hell-cat Christa Hughes proudly returns to Arts Centre Melbourne with the Victorian debut of Oz Rockin' The Ladies Lounge on 9 November 2017. No stranger to rock 'n' roll, Christa (aka KK Juggy from Machine Gun Fellatio) will take to the stage to salute some of Australia's greatest rock 'n' roll artists and their songs.

In true Hughes style, each song will be reinterpreted with her own peculiar twist and cheeky sense of humour. She'll keep you guessing as she performs classics across the Oz rock spectrum from Cold Chisel, AC/DC, Divinyls, Rose Tattoo to The Angels, Paul Kelly and Midnight Oil. Hughes innate sense of irreverent theatricality, sheer vocal power and passion for 1920s jazz, blues, cabaret and good old fashioned rock and roll promises to deliver a wild night of music and entertainment.

Christa said, "I feel honoured to have been invited to perform this show and salute some of my heroes in the Rock and Roll capital of Australia. The Ladies' Lounge will indeed be High Voltage!"

Well known as KK Juggy from the band Machine Gun Fellatio, Christa Hughes is a self-described blues belter, cabaret conjurer, burlesque babe, circus run away, raucous ring mistress, opera tramp and larrikin of the loudest order. She started performing as a teenager, singing with her jazz pianist father Dick and in the early 1990s, Dick and Christa Hughes performed every Sunday evening with people squeezing into a Sydney pub to watch Dick pound the beer-soaked upright piano as Christa belted out their favourite songs from the 1920s and 1930s.

Hughes later headed overseas where she sang in jazz and blues clubs and performed in off Broadway shows in New York. She then moved over to the UK where she started performing and touring her solo cabaret shows, appearing on the cult TV show Eurotrash where Jean Paul Gaultier dubbed her "Ze Diva of Deepthroat, Ze Goddess of Gargle".

In 2000 Christa came back home and wrote Beer Drinking Woman, an intoxicating cabaret show dedicated to booze and she was later commissioned by the Sydney Opera House to write and perform Circus/Burlesque Rock Opera Sleepless Beauty. During this time she was recording and touring as KK Juggy with the band Machine Gun Fellatio. Known for their highly entertaining and antic packed live shows they were famously banned by Melbourne University for being "sexist".

In 2005 Machine Gun Fellatio broke up (over costume differences) and Hughes went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a small burlesque troupe, (no costume dramas despite lots of costume "malfunctions") and starred in Go-Go Burlesco to rave reviews. She has since performed with Circus Oz, Le Clique, Victorian Opera, Milk Crate Theatre and Insite Arts.

"Edith Piaf and Angry Anderson had a love child and they called her Christa Hughes..... This is a great show jam-packed with terrific Aussie rock and lashings of laughter." The Clothesline

Tickets can be purchased at www.artscentremelbourne.com.au or phone 1300 182 183.

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