|
 |
Scared Weird Little Guys.
 Forming
in 1991 in Melbourne and first appearing at the Adelaide Fringe
Festival in 1992, Rusty Berther and John Fleming, AKA: the Scared
Weird Little Guys (or just plain the Scaredies for short) quickly
moved on to be one of the most popular and most awarded acts
around the world circuit. Missing out on the 1992 event, they've
been back to our town for every festival since, and this year
they're planning bigger and better things.
"We're actually coming to Adelaide with an eight piece band this time and the show that we're doing is the 'Thirty Minute Variety Hour'," begins Fleming. "Basically it's in the style of a radio variety show so we've got a show band on stage with us and it's got a three piece brass section to help life it and to give it all the power it needs and we've also got Ross Daniels, who's our featured voice over man.
"I guess it's still very much a Scared Little Weird Guys' show as it's still us doing our thing but with a variety of different concepts that we can plug in. It's like our usual show where it's a collection of sketches and silly songs but we do a story-time of a radio play with sound effects, which is a lot of fun because we get a member of the audience up to help us with that.
"We're also picking up some local players for our superband too, so there'll be some Adelaide faces on stage with us."
Berther adds: "Theyíve already been sent the music so hopefully they're rehearsing hard as we speak."
I wonder if there's any names that we'd know? "Hmmm, let's see - Guy Sebastian, he's playing violin for us [NOTE: He's just joking kids]. For a few nights as part of the Fringe we're doing like a live karaoke band where we'll get comedians up to sing their favourite 'seventies and 'eighties daggy songs, so we'll use the band and that'll be really good fun."
Now for some good news and some bad news: "You'll be happy to know that our next CD is in production as we speak," they tell me, but "we were hoping to have it ready for the first show but it will now be ready about half way through the Adelaide Fringe. But we've got a new single that we'll be playing, it's an Eminem version of Waltzing Matilda called Cleaning Out My Tuckerbag."
Being a big Em fan, I tell them this; "You are?" chimes Berther. "Same with me but only since I'd bought a CD to try and work out how we can send up his sound a bit, then I became a huge fan. I've since bought everything he's ever done and I love it."
Berther and I then branch off to talk all things Eminem before Fleming interrupts to remind us that they only send him up in the show and that he's not actually in it. Even so, I can't wait to hear that one!
Steve Jones
 |
Scared Weird Little Guys perform at the Royalty Theatre from Fri 20 Feb at 9pm.
|
|
|
The latest issue
available now!
|
