This just in from FIVEaa Adelaide 1395 Interactive Radio who also do a very good written review (click to read the whole thing):
The reviews seem to be coming in thick and fast, and all good. Talking of all good, we had a wonderfully sizeable audience last night (Friday) who were possibly our best yet. The show's smooth as silk and they responded beautifully. And talking of thick and fast, in the field next door to our venue the Clipsal 500 is taking place, where some blokes drive cars really fast and, most importantly, really noisily. Despite their best efforts to drown us out, and given that we're all performing in marquees they were doing a good job of it, carrying on racing until half an hour into our show and right the way through the earlier ones, we had a great show.
Today (Saturday, though it'll say Friday at the top of the page thanks to this whole time-travel thing we've got going on) the Socks make their third appearance on the bandstand. Will there be kids with chips again today? Stay tuned...
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 until March 18th. Tickets here.
Talking of changing the subject (from Adelaide), tickets for the first previews for the Socks new Edinburgh show Boo Lingerie! at Brighton Fringe have gone on sale...
Meanwhile on the other side of the world, Thursday in Adelaide has been big publicity day. The Socks started the day with their photo and interview appearing in the Adelaide Advertiser. Then in the early afternoon they were interviewed by Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide, in a studio full of visiting school kids which was good fun and very entertaining. Then in the late afternoon they made their second appearance on the bandstand in the Garden of Unearthly Delights. Once more they were mobbed with kids at the front of the stage, this time the kids threw chips (luckily they prefaced this by saying out loud "my friend's going to throw chips at you" otherwise we wouldn't have known it was happening. As it was we got good laughs and publicity out of it). Hopefully this promotional activity will soon turn into bums on seats. As it is, the shows are now going very well, with the audiences still erring on the elusive side.
The other day in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, and indeed all over Adelaide, it was cold wet and rainy, in marked contrast to the hot summer weather we've been enjoying (I say enjoying, though I seem to recall I've managed to moan about the hot weather, which must be galling to everyone back home, sorry). So the Socks made a video about it...
The noise the Socks are trying to talk over is The Magnets, the act from England who've been performing in the tent next door for the last two weeks and whose show overlapped with ours. Last night (Wednesday) was the Magnets final night, so now roll up, as the Advertiser says, cos the first 15 minutes of our show have never sounded better!
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 until March 18th. Tickets here.
You can still buy the calendar with its 12 unique brand new specially drawn cartoons by Kev F formerly of The Beano. It's good for another 10 months and is a collector's item joy to treasure. Click on the image to see more of the calendar and the link to the shop, or if you can't wait, buy it here.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 until March 18th. Tickets here.
Good morning world, rabbits rabbits rabbits (the laptop and blogger think it's still Feb 29th, but here in Adelaide it's 9am on the morning of March 1st) and we've just woken to find this smashing photo and article in today's Adelaide Advertiser.
TWO hands, two socks and two pairs of googly eyes have found one Adelaide Fringe act an international following.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre is here for the first time, backed by a YouTube following and appearances on British TV.
"In a day and age when performers have videos and back projections and remote control technical gizmos, it seems amazing to me a couple of socks sticking their heads through a little tartan set can be so popular," founder and sole performer Kev F Sutherland said.
"It must have something to do with what they say."
The socks have been charming audiences at the Garden of Unearthly Delights. They previously "`duetted" with entertainers and politicians.
"If there are any famous Australians who wish to appear with the socks they would love it," said Sutherland who added his act was "not a kids' show".
Before the puppets' debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007 the Scottish performer had a stand-up career.
"I can't tell you how humiliating it is to discover your socks are funnier than you," he said.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 until March 18th. Tickets here.
There's an awful lot of strippers and burlesque at the Adelaide Fringe, so the Scottish Falsetto Socks have given it a go...
Groggy Squirrel Review
It wasn't until they caught with us on Twitter, with the very nice: @squirrel_comedy
- @GFIcomedy @adelaide_fringe OMG The @falsettosocks are in Australia?!!! But not listed in the @micomfestival guide? PLEASE come to Melb!!!!
... that I remembered that Groggy Squirrel had given the Socks a rave review back in Edinburgh 2008. As you can see it's a totally different show we're doing at the moment (whatever did happen to Kraftwerk, Mods & Rockers and King Lear?) but it's the same Socks, and this is a treat to read again.
Do you want a truly joyous experience of non-stop fun and silliness that will have you whooping with laughter at the Fringe Festival? Go see The Return of the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. It will keep you giggling long afterwards, every time you think about it. There was a small amount of swearing, mostly ‘shit’ and there were some adult references like ‘Kraftwerk’ and ‘Emo’, but take they kids, the ones near me were almost wetting themselves with excitement thoughout!
The sock puppets bounced in to Aretha’s ‘Respect’ – “sock it to me, sock it to me…..”, introduced themselves and launched into their theme song “I’m a sock” where they crammed in every rhyme and almost rhyme to sock in the English language and rocking guitar solo. They played several instruments and the instruments all had the same name “Vicki the technician”. I was really impressed with not only the intellectual level of the show but the puppets’ awareness of the audience and ability to ad lib throughout.
The show played like the sock puppets were putting on an old fashioned two man – sock – vaudeville show. There were copious wordplay jokes, and wild costume changes (with comical backstage commentary to keep everyone amused while the puppets were off stage) including a mod and rocker outfit for the historical re-enactment of the Mods & Rockers brawl on Brighton Beach in 1964. And where would vaudeville be without a running gag. The sock puppets astonished me by introducing the Abbott & Costello ‘Who’s on first’ routine, I thought “Oh, they’re going to do that one, ah well that’s OK its pretty good”. But no, no, no the sock puppets took the gag and completely deconstructed it and it reappeared in surprising places throughout the rest of the show.
After a surprising guest appearance by cardboard cut out Kraftwerk and other silly shenanigans, that included “Mad dogs and Englishmen smoke out in the midday rain” and an excerpt from a planned Christmas special, the last part of the show consisted of a surprisingly detailed and wonderfully ridiculous version of King Lear, using other puppets and soft toys who have appeared earlier in the show. Even the subplots were enacted! King Lear’s daughters were called Gonorrea, Ronald Regan and Cor-Delia Smith (Goneril, Regan & Cordelia). The battle using all the puppets and soft toys has to be seen to be believed! This show was like Shakespeare in that it had something for everyone, High jokes, low jokes and stuff for the kids.
Finally after the puppets took their bows the amazing puppeteer came out to receive his well deserved cheers and wild applause. It must be exhausting work. Kev F Sutherland is a truly renaissance man, comedian, comic strip creator, writer, teacher (and though there is no mention in his CV) puppeteer extraordinaire. Seriously your festival will be made complete with a visit to the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets!
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 until March 18th. Tickets here.
Every night in Adelaide, the Scottish Falsetto Socks are entertaining the good people of the Garden of Unearthly Delights in a venue called Il Campanile. And all of the shows in that venue do so with the help of our sterling technician Brihony. What we discovered after a few days was that Brihony is not only a fab techie, and also coincidentally a trained Personal Trainer, but she's also a rock star. And tonight for the first time we've seen just how good a rock star, with the appearance of her new video on YouTube. Check this out...
I know! Can you believe that? That's Brihony who does the sound for the Socks, rocking out as the singer and songwriter of Last Mistress. She's got a record deal and is paired with a producer in LA. And she's doing our sound. Mental.
Tonight's show was another good one. Still not the biggest of audiences, but an appreciative one. And earlier in the day the Socks had a photoshoot and interview for the Adelaide Advertiser which went nicely, so I'm looking forward to seeing how, and when, that comes out.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - with Brihony out of Last Mistress on sound - are at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 until March 18th. Tickets here.
Brand new from the Scottish Falsetto Socks, a take on a particular aspect of Adelaide life which, apparently, even other Australians find a bit odd.
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre played at The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide every night at 7.45 Feb 17 - March 18th 2012, picking up the rave reviews below. They continue to tour nationally and internationally, watch here, Facebook or Twitter for the latest.
