Frisky and Mannish review by Jo Thorne Rural Arts ON Tour

17/08

Frisky and Mannish

Pop Centre Plus at the Udderbelly with a large excitable audience!

Easily the best thing I saw at the Fringe and so much fun.

The performance engaged the audience from the moment Frisky and Mannish entered the auditorium.  

The evening involved training the audience to become a pop star.

There were 5 pop tests to distinguish which category you as an audience member should be in.

For example the first category was for ‘Razorlights’, and to qualify as a Razorlight you needed to have good hair! Frisky asked the audience to put your hand on the head of the person nearest you with the best hair. If you had no hands on your head you had to then sit down, if you had one hand on your head you also sat down but if you had more than two hands on your head then you became an official Razorlight.

Other tests included dancing, if you could dance but not sing then you were a Britney! If you had no talent at all then you were a Justin Beaber.

I was a Beaber!

For the rest of the show Frisky and Mannish performed pop songs in comedy ways but with huge amounts of talent! There was a great take on Madonna through her years with the emphasis being on training us as the audience to be ‘versatile’ throughout our pop careers! Other take offs included Girls Aloud, Take That and Adele.

To finish the evening a pop group was created from the audience, Frisky and Mannish created a band with one audience member from each category. 5 men were picked from the audience in the ranging categories to make up ‘Wet Life’ our new pop group (The name was chosen from an audience member who had been writing down ideas throughout the performance). ‘Wet Life’ were fantastic and were instructed to look ‘emotional’ through Take That’s ‘Never Forget Where You’ve Come From’ as well as touch each other inappropriately. We absolutely loved the evening and would recommend the show to everyone. I’m not sure if they would be up for rural touring but if they would we should grab them with both hands. Unfortunately they had to run off for an interview with Radio 1 afterwards so I couldn’t catch them.  Fantastic stuff, I left the auditorium on a high!