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o’doheRty:
let’s CoMedy
By Scott McLennan
never underestimate the trials brilliant irish comedian
david o’doherty has gone through to make it to the
top of the comedy heap. whether fixing bicycles on
stage, being harassed by adelaide bogans or posing
as a quadriplegic, o’doherty manages to find genius
comedy in the most unlikely places.
David suggests his laughably a certain tramp chic in his uproarious
haphazard approach to his shows – and comedy shows.
to life in general – is genetic. “I’m one of those people who don’t
“I think that comes from our dad scrub up very well,” he admits. “I did
being a jazz musician, so that was quite wear a suit to a gig once a few years ago
typical of our household and that’s as I was trying to be a slick comedian,
where the looseness comes from. but my dad told me I looked like a
Dinner at our house could be any time homeless man from the 1970s.”
from four o’clock to nine o’clock with A few years ago during the Clipsal
dad, but by brother Mark has more weekend, David’s dress sense led to a
structure to him.” passing bogan in a hotted up Hyundai
Mark O’Doherty cast his comic having a go at the comedian as he
brother in his recent movie, A Film walked by.
With Me In It, which also stars Dylan “Strange things happen in Adelaide,
especially when that car race is on. It
Moran from Black Books. David plays
was during that race weekend that a
the part of a quadriplegic man with a
guy in a small car with a stereo system
brain injury.
of a medium-sized nightclub shouted
“Mark’s character is named Mark
out ‘You gay hippie!’ at me while I was
and my character is named David and
he needed someone who looked like walking by. Oh Adelaide, you’ve given Turn To page 9
me so much. Adelaide gave me that,
him, so I was sort of a shoo-in for the To read abouT
but it also gives us Sia Furler, so it’s
role. I had to go out to the National
swings and roundabouts. I’m a big Sia The forward
Rehabilitation Institute and figure out
fan, for sure. Can you please ask Sia to Thinking
how to look like I was in a wheelchair.
come to my show if she’s in town? I got
During filming I nearly got pushed into cross of
into her because Bret from Flight Of
the canal and I suddenly had to stop The Conchords knows her from being dance and
being quadriplegic when my chair was
in LA with her, but I only found out Technology –
heading rapidly towards the water.” she was from Adelaide recently. She’s
Though thankfully free of brain 3xperimenTia.
injuries, David unintentionally offers Continues Page 4
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Scott McLennan, Robert Dunstan, the very first such festival was staged.
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From Page 1 when you play with pretentious people Reflecting on his jobs prior to becoming
phenomenal. If she’s around please they say, ‘Oh, I use that word all the a full time comic, only his work in
make her come.” time! Qi? I’m always using it!’” a bike shop stands out as a positive
Last year’s Fringe found David Although he initially found great experience.
taking on English comedians Josie Long humour in the humble Golden Gaytime, “I enjoyed my time working in a bike
and Daniel Kitson in extraordinary David’s more recent Aussie trips have shop. My buddy who worked there with
Scrabble battles. lessened the impact of Australia’s most me and I did a stand-up show where the
“The problem with Scrabble is questionable ice cream. audience could get in for cheap if they
that Kitson and Josie are both very “You can tell when you’ve been to brought their broken bike in and we’d
good, but people who are very good Australia a few times because you don’t repair them on stage. The great thing
at Scrabble have generally learned the find it so funny anymore, but I still about it is that audiences are generally
list of obscure two-letter words that find Coon cheese utterly unacceptable. reluctant to talk to you when you ask
are somehow in the English language. Golden Gaytimes, I still take photos of them what they do, but you ask them
It’s very hard then. I get very serious and send them home to people.” about their bikes and they’ll go on and
about Scrabble, but my rule is that you David suggests to The Adelaide Fix on. ‘I bought it off a nun!’ and then
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Well that’s it for another year. Thanks to the whole
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ChRistie anthoney
2009
By David Knight FRinGe
This year’s fringe was the “real test” of it
surviving as an annual event according to FaCts
the festival’s director christie anthoney.
There were over 4977
“This being the third annual Fringe Light Hotel and a little cluster of venues
performances of 517 shows
and the second without the Adelaide over in North Adelaide that really
have taken place in 259 venues
Festival, this was a total unknown,” says rocked. And when you hear about stuff
during fringe 2009.
Anthoney. “In fact if anything I thought that happened in Noarlunga that was
this was the real test. And fabulously packed, it’s heart-warming that there’s
it would take 21 days to watch
thanks to Adelaide audiences and to all activity all over the place.”
every show at the fringe back
the artists who have come to taken a Next year will mark the 50th
to back.
risk there’s no doubt now the Fringe is anniversary of the Fringe and Adelaide
an annual tour de force for sure.” Festival. And Anthoney will again
There were 293 australian
A few days out from the end of the be in charge of the Fringe for this
premieres at fringe 2009.
three-week festival and the Fringe (that celebration.
accommodated over 500 shows) hit “Can you believe it? Well, it’s 50 the work throughout the year. The
a crowd of approximately
sales targets despite the economic dark years since the Festival started and managers are to die for.
80,000 attended the opening
times ahead. Anthoney calls the 2009 right from the first year of the Festival “I want to just make sure that from
night party on fri feb 27.
Fringe a “calm and solid” year. there was Fringe activity and then it the Fringe there’s a big onya and thank
“Just in terms that it’s sustained became more and more consolidated you to everyone who bought a ticket
a total of 361 volunteers have
audiences and artists haven’t seemed to until it actually formed an incorporation and came and saw something. I just
worked more than 1500 hours to
wear out. And we have been really lucky in 1975 and then as you know broke think it’s just a reinforcement of live
bring the fringe to life.
we haven’t had heat waves and extreme free in 2007. And now here we are events - the future is still about getting
weather that’s added to the tension. So, sitting alone and still having such solid out and doing stuff and being in a live
when at their biggest, fringe
in terms of the underlying psyche of it – shows and audiences and support from situation and Adelaide gets it. Adelaide
staff ranks included 82 staff
it’s been fabulous.” everyone. Personally I believe in the audiences are just cool like that; they
members
Anthoney has been pleased with the cluster model - where there’s a lot on at know it’s here for a short sharp time.
growth of some of the smaller and more the same time I think it’s terrific. Whilst Particularly the artists who took the
with four days to go there had
underground hubs for Fringe activity. we haven’t missed the Festival in terms financial and creative risk to come to
been 101 shows that sold out at
“The venues that have done it for a of audience and support it will be great Adelaide (if they’re not already from
least one performance and 382
long time are refining what they do and when it’s on again.” here) and put on their stuff, I mean
performances sold out in total
are having a great time like Caos Café Finally, Anthoney wants to thank all they’re up for critical analysis and
(during fringe so far) and 21
on Hindley St, which had some great the Fringe staff, audiences and artists. potential loss of income and yet through
shows entirely sold out every
shows as did the Tuxedo Cat. It’s a “I just have to make sure that people all of that everyone will have had a
performance.
great little venue with some cool shows know that there’s a magnificent team phenomenal experience one way or the
up there. Similarly with the Electric who really take on the lion’s share of other. I want to thank them all.”
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the BlaCkeyed
susans
By Robert Dunstan
moody melbourne combo The
blackeyed susans are looking forward
to coming to adelaide for the first time
in many years and performing in the
spiegeltent for the closing night of the
garden of unearthly delights. The
salubrious venue is one in which they
have performed previously in sydney
and also in their hometown. we speak
over the telephone to double bass
Kakulas, who plays bass with both bands, also saw journey full circle. Memories was the first step in
player phil kakulas and honey-voiced
Cohen perform in concert no less than five times. my musical journey, which brought me to where I
vocalist rob snarski. “I drank deeply from the trough,” he laughs, am today. That may sound like a cliché, but it was
“because I also got to hear two soundchecks.” important to me to do Memories even though we are
The Blackeyed Susans were formed in Perth in the late “I saw Cohen soundcheck in the Yarra Valley,” not in the habit of performing a song by an artist we
‘80s as a hobby band of sorts by the late David McComb Snarski adds. “I was driving into the venue and could are supporting.
of The Triffids. Since then over 30 musicians have passed hear music. So I quickly grabbed a seat in front of “But I asked Leonard how he felt about us playing
through their ranks and in 2009 they still boast a floating the stage – there were only about five other people it and he said he hadn’t played Memories in years and
line-up. For their Adelaide gig, they will present a five- there – and it was kind of like seeing a special little would be looking forward to hearing it,” he adds.
piece line-up of Kakulas and Snarski alongside drummer concert just for us.” Kakulas and Snarski appear in It’s Raining
Mark Dawson, The Triffids’ pedal steel player Graham When The Blackeyed Susans opened for Leonard Pleasure, a film about The Triffids that enjoyed its
Lee and multi-instrumentalist JP Shilo. Cohen, they chose to play Memories, a Cohen song world premiere at the recent Adelaide Film Festival.
The combo will soon release a long-waited box they’ve been doing for years and which appeared, Neither musician have seen the finished product
set – Kakulas and Snarski were finalising the track with the late David McComb on lead vocals, on All however.
listing as we spoke – which will be followed by their Souls Alive. “I have a copy of the film,” Snarski says, “but I’ll
six-album back catalogue being remastered and then “I’d been playing Memories since I was about 16 need to be in the right head-space to watch it.”
reissued with bonus offerings. The Blackeyed Susans with Dave [McComb] and Alsy McDonald [The
The blackeyed susans play The
also opened for Leonard Cohen in the Yarra Valley Triffids’ drummer],” Kakulas says, “so playing with
and then played some gigs with The Triffids. Leonard over 30 years later seemed to bring that spiegeltent at 7pm on sat mar 21.
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By David Knight
one of the most forward thinking shows of this year’s
fringe is a technological thrust of dance with live music
and visual edits in a 3d format that makes the audience
experience the “mona lisa effect”.
“When you put the 3D glasses on, what I’m doing. It’s like I’m conducting
the feedback that I’ve been getting from or creating in the moment in front of
audience members is that they feel like them. Now, everyone says they are
they’re obviously within the situation totally blown away by watching the 3D
or within the dance or the dance is on the screen but it’s really nice every
happening around them,” says the moment to check in with what I’m doing
show’s producer Amanda Phillips. “It’s and how I’m making it in the moment
a one on one experience. It has what I with them. Also Alexander Mitchell,
would call or term the Mona Lisa effect his music is just genius. He’s one of
- the dancer is dancing for you. You can’t Australia’s true rising stars in terms of
get that in any other type of theatre. composition. It goes right through from
“This is where the 3D is special. I tribal beats through to I would almost
think it makes for a very connected say symphony-like strains; you have a
experience for the audience. If you were full diversity of musical ranges there
sitting 10 metres from somewhere else within the piece. So, there’s something
when you have those glasses on that for everyone.”
dancer still is making eye contact and Phillips says there is no way this
dancing for you.” work could have existed without the
Using video footage of dancers, which help of e-Research South Australia. This
is then cut live with animation and art partnership has meant the art presented
by Phillips VJing while a DJ is selecting in this show can move forward.
music to suit the visuals (or vice versa) “I’m so glad the audiences are ready
results in the only 3D stereosonic live for something different and they are
edit performance piece to be staged in ready to take it on board and join us on
this country. This means that no two this journey. Again as you said about the We’ve been able to actually research this 3xperimentia: live
shows are ever the same due to the live VJ/DJ experience, yes it’s something and allow it to gestate and develop over cut is on at the
VJ and DJ experience. Phillips VJs using that the audiences need to get their head time, which isn’t something we’re often mercury cinema
a huge touch screen. around. But it increases the improvisation afforded as artists or creators, the time until sun mar 22 at
“This thing is over a metre in size. It’s aspect, the spontaneity and the point of this has had to sort of manifest as an idea 8pm and 10pm.
big, it’s visible and the audience can see difference of any other performance. and this has been really significant.”
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FiX
as the fringe winds down for another
year, The Adelaide Fix is preparing for a
restful 11 months of hibernation. before
we sequester our acorns and batten
FaVes
down the hatches, we asked the office
what the favourite shows of this festival
season have been.
harry
sTarboard
“My favourite comedy shows would have to be between Nik
Coppin’s Loquacious, Shaggers and Marcel Lucont. Nik
Coppin, Marcel Lucont and Adam Vincent are the three that
made me laugh out loud. I saw some comedians that really
didn’t make me laugh. There was a considerable difference
in the attitude of my favourite comedians to their audience,
and it might be due to the venue. The Tuxedo Cat has a
more unpretentious, laidback attitude, but the night I was at
Rhino Room for the Late Show, Adam Richard was tedious,
Tom Gleason was too precious about being heckled and
Mickey D I didn’t think was particularly funny. The show
I’m most looking forward to is The Blackeyed Susans this
Saturday, but my absolute favourite show was Paul Zenon,
who was absolutely great. He performed short magic shows
in this 1930s British construction in the Garden. Five dollars
for 15 minutes – you couldn’t beat it.”
lachlan
colquhoun
“Lady Carol with the ukulele in A Company Of
Strangers was the best thing I saw. I hung around
at the fringes of The Spiegeltent so that Le
Gateau Chocolat could not get to me.”
roberT dunsTan
paul kiTching
“My favourite was Abbie Cardwell & Her Leading
“Clearly the favourite was Lady Carol in A Company
Men. She was playing to her home crowd – even
Of Strangers singing The Show Must Go On. She
her dad was there. I’ve mostly seen Garden stuff.
was playing a haunting ukulele while perched
I saw David Bridie in The Spiegeltent and Dave
on a piano. She was glamorously clad in hooded
Graney in Le Cascadeur, who was very good.
apparel. I was unable to take this whip, but I’m sure
The Late Show at the Gov was very good, with
she would have been happy to play along. So my
Arj Barker and Lehmo. I know it’s not part of the
favourites were A Company Of Strangers and the
Fringe, but WOMAD was great as well.”
crisp chips in the Garden.”
daVid knighT
“My favourite show was The Boy With Tape On
His Face. It’s a different take on the comedy genre.
Tiffany Everything I say will make me sound like a fucking
Venning wanker, but it’s just different to anything else. He
doesn’t talk but he makes you laugh for an hour.
“I liked A Company Of Strangers, particularly Le
Every show was different depending on the crowd,
Gateau Chocolat’s opening song from The Sound Of
so no two shows were the same. My biggest Fringe
Music. He comes out singing The Sound Of Music
disappointment was House Of The Holy Afro. It
dressed in his lycra. I also liked Arj Barker. I walked
wasn’t the worst show, it just didn’t deliver to the
out of that show unable to remember a single joke,
heart. I was hoping for an amazing hour of visual
but there was one about technology and IT that I
stimulation. It wasn’t the worst show, it was just the
really liked. The good thing about that show was it
most disappointing.”
was packed and there was a good vibe.”
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