Johno's Bar

Johno's Blues Band are the resident band of this entertaining venue in Cairns. Johno himself is the star of the show and his upside-down rendition of his favourite tune is something to savour. Johno's drummer though is the main vein of the band and his particular brand of humour (during Johno's world-famous gong show) was to be my 1st introduction to the Aussie style of politically incorrect humour and culture-bashing that I love them for. The gong show is basically a talent contest, as two Japanese fellas got up to sing and play the guitar a large group of small Japanese girls and boys followed and surrounded the foot of the stage. With this the drummer announced 'Folks, theres about to be a lot of flash photography, will anyone with epilepsy please leave the building'. The japanese boys went down so well they played twice and predictably won the crowd over and won the competetion. Johno's drummer asks the crowd 'My god you lot have got short memories..when was it we dropped that thing on them...?' The lady on my table from Adelaide asked me to explain what he was referring to...I explained that references to jokes about Hiroshima were maybe taking things a little too far. What you MUST do though is go to see the cane-toad racing (Tuesdays I think), run by a bloke called 'Captain Sarcastic'. Hes MUCH worse than the drummer.