Art of Difference is in its last week. It finishes on Saturday 21 but many of the big events happened over the weekend (including a torrential rain that was celebrated by a concentrated and perfectly proportioned set of revellers at Block Party). Currently, there's a great show on, Liz Carr's It Hasn't Happened Yet. The marketing for AOD hardly pays decent tribute to the show that audiences get to see. Liz is not only a comedian who has spent a lifetime witnessing and privately finessing her comic skills, she's also one that went from comic newby to seasoned cynical stand up genius in just a few years. 

Nothing is sacred with Liz Carr and Melbourne is seldom graced with a talent like hers. Her play, which tells the story of Alix tackling the mainstream as a crip jokester, is a finely hewed piece where theatre and standup are seamlessly interposed. It seems ironic that one of the best recently arrived comic talents of the UK is not going to earn the plaudits of any of the queer, straight, street, art or community press. You guys suck so badly for not having your ear to the ground. But it's your loss not ours.

To Liz Carr, a talent that we are all going to know about soon, and some of us were there when... SALUT.