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The Scared Weird Little Guys.
John Chaplin-Fleming is the taller member of the multi-award
winning, hugely popular acoustic comedy duo, The Scared Weird
Little Guys; Russell 'Rusty' Berther being the other half. Speaking
from their hotel in the FNQ town of Rockhampton, where they're
set to play a series of shows in the region, Chaplin-Fleming
sounds genuinely fervent about their upcoming bi-annual trek
to Adelaide for their seventh appearance at the Fringe Festival.
"We really can't wait to get back down there," he enthuses, "it's going to be great and it's got to do with a few factors," he continues, as if to justify his anticipation.
"First of all it's the size of the city, it's a really good size that no matter where you go everyone knows of the Festival, whereas in Melbourne and other larger cities things can get kind of lost outside the nexus of the actual festival goings-on. So in that way Adelaide gets really fired up for it all and a lot of people say that it certainly transforms the city, so we're always really happy to be a part of that.
"But also the people of Adelaide really seem to get the 'Scardie's stuff and because they then come out in droves it's so much fun to play in front of such an enthusiastic audience. Well that's not to say that we go badly everywhere else," he adds, after I make note of the relevant topical nature of a SWLG show, "and we certainly do change our shows around to adapt to each place we go and we actually wrote a whole song about South Australia a couple of years ago which we always play when we come to Adelaide, but we have tried to do that with other places and it hasn't always worked out as well.
"It's kind of got a theme to it," he says of their latest show's agenda, "but with the Scardies we've realised that essentially our strength lies in performing a show without a narrative thread and without any kind of real consistent theme to it.
"The show is actually called 'Mindless Stupidity For The Thinking Person', and it's exactly that. We try to do stuff that's difficult for us to work out, and there's all these interesting facts that we deliver to people so there's a little bit of a theme to the show. But since we were there at the last Adelaide Fringe it's a completely different show so it's really is a lot of fun to perform and I think that those who saw at the last Fringe will be delightfully surprised at the amount of new material we've added. It really is a just classic Scardie's show where there's just one or two guitars with two voices doing the material, and we'll be telling jokes and doing little sketches and just improvising around all that and creating a feeling that we're all there together and having a great time, and that's the idea."
Steve Jones
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The Scared Weird Little Guys 'Mindless Stupidity For The Thinking Person' can be found from Wed 1 March at the Royalty Theatre as part of the Fringe
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