Frankghanistan

09/12/2024

Yeh nah yeh it’s that time again innit? Frankghanistan

16/02/2024

Noel gives TradeMutt the double thumbs up. Check it out and share it with ya tradie mates. ✨👍🏾👍🏾✨

TradeMutt is a social enterprise workwear company by tradies for tradies. We make funky, eye-catching workwear designed to start conversations about mental health making an invisible issue impossible to ignore. This is the social impact we've made by donating 50% of the profits from every workshirt....

10/08/2023

Noel says “A big fuggin Fank Youse” to the audience member who gave Frankghanistan a shout out on ABC RADIO 774 this afternoon on Raph Epstein’s Unauthorised Histories segment on Franga today! Feeling the love and appreciate the reppin’!

31/07/2023

Happy Birthday to Meeeee!

Thought I'd give you something whilst giving myself something even bigger - I'm sharing my work with the world on Patreon! It's about damn time, only took 10 years, but here we are and this platform is a place for us to stay super current and connected.

Check it out and I look forward to sharing my creative content with you.

x

NB: Also acknowledging that it was today 30 years ago that we all exhaled bc PD (AKA the Frankston Serial Killer) was caught. My heart goes out to the families and loved ones of his victims and to my beloved 3199 community.

Patreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions!

11/05/2023

It’s so incredibly unjust and unfair that the families of Denyer’s victims, not to mention the entire *Frankston community have been holding their breath for this news.

However, as we all exhale, I hope everyone, particularly the families can sleep well and rest assured that some semblance of justice has been served.

My heart goes out to the Russel, Freem, and Steven’s families.

💞🙏🏽💞

(*current and from 1993)

Frankston serial killer Paul Denyer’s parole bid has been denied.

06/06/2022

CONGRATULATIONS to Nel, NOEL & the whole Tonight Live with Noel team for our GREEN ROOM AWARD NOMINATIONS in the category of CABARET:
BEST PRODUCTION
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
INNOVATION

To be grassroots for three decades and to receive industry recognition is a huge feat that I’m so proud of all the team for. The work we do is always a collaborative effort - especially when it comes to musical genius - so a massive biggups to Musical Co-Director Larna Cleary for your skill, finely tuned Chisel ear and creativity. Thank you. 🙏🏽💞

We’re all winners in my eyes, but to be named by our industry leaders - it is humbling and a privilege.

Congrats to all the 2022 Nominees especially Candy Bowers (a special guest) and the director of TakeBack! which shares the Innovation nomination and Best Variety Show!

Wooohoooooooo!!!! 🙌🏾🌭👍🏽💛

17/11/2021

Far out! Was sooooo pleasantly surprised yesterday when googling this show (for an arts crisis grant relief app nonetheless) and I found all these random reviews!!!

“We finally got to see Franghanistan last night. It was truly incredible, intelligent, brave, vulnerable and funny. A lifetime of experience and daring to bare all compacted into this 1 hour kaleidoscope performance. So thought provoking, and encouraging for us all to dig deep. Brilliant performance Nel and team 11/10”

“It’s difficult to quantify the awesomeness of Frankghanistan. I roared. I wept. I was taken to distant lands, of the past and present. In this age of Australia, whilst we are trying to figure out our national identity, Janelle and Noel have left me with plenty to ponder. Just go see it.”

“Hilarious, harrowing and riotously joyful, at its heart this feels to be about a miraculous reconciliation of seemingly irreconcilable polarities within the culture, between the genders, between victim and perpetrator, class and race and ultimately perhaps within the individual psyche. It feels as though there is a mysterious healing occurring between disparate experiences, a profoundly generous capacity to integrate marginal aspects and extreme experiences of this extraordinary woman’s lived becoming, in a manner that creates a glorious, edgy cohesion and a poignant, tender restoration. The invitation perhaps is for us all to be as fiercely curious and unapologetic about all that is distorted or unreconciled within the culture and within our own selves, but simultaneously inviting this regenerative embrace of all that is, so that the other is returned to the hearthfire of the known and that which is unconscious is integrated into compassionate awareness. A deeply honed and viscerally profound experience. Thank you Janelle, for all that you bring.”

As an independent artist, that has had essentially 95% of all my income streams cut since March 2020, I can’t tell you how much it meant to happen upon these reviews.

Thanks to everyone that support the independent Australian arts scene. Your ticket buying, word-of-mouth marketing and ‘going out for a good time w mates’ makes all the difference to our industry.

Although it’s a privilege and a choice to be a full time artist, it’s not an easy road, it’s not certain and it’s definitely not something banks consider a reliable income stream - and it’s even more challenging for those on the intersections.

I look forward to (hopefully) remounting the show in 2022 and sharing my work with more audiences.

Source: https://www.glartent.com/AU/Melbourne/1002635409898778/Frankghanistan

One-person show (& awesome musicians) debuting about being a q***r, intersectional bogan growing up in Frankston.

12/11/2021

Bahahahahaa..🍟🐦

12/06/2021

Great news!

Nat’s Track, named in honour of late Frankston student, Natalie Russell in 1999, will receive a further $10,000 to continue its transformation into a safe and fitting tribute to Natalie and her family.

At its 31 May Council Meeting, Councillors voted unanimously to allocate a $10,000 grant to the National Golf Club towards a new fence bordering Nat’s Track subject to their agreement to maintain the rose garden in memory of the Natalie.

💰 Council continues to invest significant funds to improve safety and amenity along the popular student thoroughfare, which joins Skye Road in Karingal to Monterey Secondary College in Frankston North.

Earlier this year, Council unanimously endorsed $87,000 in upgrades and works including the installation of multiple solar lights, landscape beautification and public art at both the south and north entry points, and the installation of a memorial artwork in memory of Natalie in consultation with her family 💕

Natalie was murdered in 1993 on her way home from school and Nat’s Track was subsequently named in her honour in 1999.

📹 Other Council investment in the area includes $80,000 for the installation of CCTV at the Skye Rd end of the track, with footage streamed live to the Frankston Police Station.

𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦: 𝘊𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 (prior to current restrictions) 🚴‍♀️

14/05/2021