Machine Gun Fellatio at Kings Arms Tavern

By REBECCA BARRY

While the British enjoy their toilet humour, the Aussies like to joke about sex.

None more so than sleazy-listening Sydney seven-piece Machine Gun Fellatio, whose packed-out gig had one woman so excited she took to a spot of stage-side pole dancing. With songs such as Pussytown, perhaps it's no wonder.

Singer KK Juggy - who bears a resemblance to the wigged mother from Aussie TV comedy Kath & Kim - opened the set with a shrill, operatic number all about the joys of promiscuity.

Then she stripped off to a tiny pink bikini as her lycra-fitted bandmates - Pinky Beecroft, Chit Chat Von Loopinstab, The Widow Jones, Loveshark, 3K Short and Bryan Ferrysexual - joined her on stage.

"Everyone likes fellatio!" exclaimed Pinky, who looks suspiciously like he gets his styling tips from the Peter Stuyvesant Hitlist.

Despite the crude sometimes outweighing the clever, MGF pumped out a throbbing, hip-thrusting good night of pop and rock'n'roll - the Rolling Stones for the porn generation.

Rollercoaster and Mutha On A Motorcycle from new album Paging Mr Strike, were the most musically thrilling of the set, ending in chest-vibrating, electronic climaxes.

Meanwhile, Juggy thrilled the crowd with a visual representation of the music, frolicking with her blow-up "poodleabra" and pulling a myriad of amusingly raunchy facial expressions.

She eventually picked up a guitar and began strumming it like it was attached to a member of the opposite sex.

Proving that showmanship doesn't come at a price, three of the band members took up the role on the mic during the gig, The Widow Jones by far the feistiest vocalist.

Ferrysexual's drumming was also suitably fervent, as were some of the members of the crowd who were dancing in front of the stage like Iggy Pop in a fit.

Even he would have been impressed by MGF's entertaining display of novelty shock rock.