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Fringe Benefits2026 Week 5 - Last weekend of Fringe! Reviews of Full Of Grace, Alakazam + many more, & Show Recs For Your Final Hours!We’re heading into the very last weekend of Adelaide Fringe 2026 and Joel and I have officially hit 39 shows (surely we can push it past 40!). In this episode we wrap up the season with reviews of Tragic Tales: West Terrace Cemetery by Night (a lantern-lit ghost tour fun), Full of Grace (Father Andrea’s hilarious, physical clown “service” with audience participation), Alakazam (non-verbal wizard clown chaos), Joni: Play Like a Man (Finnish hockey character comedy), and George Glass & The Boys’ Dial M for Mushroom (wildly silly satire). I also share my final Fringe recommendations: The Paper Boys...
2026-03-2027 minFringe Benefits2026 Week 4 - A Fringe Documentary, Garry Starr, Giuseppe's Love Quest, Obituary WIP, and Naked CabaretWe've got a week and a bit left of the 2026 Adelaide Fringe! In this episode, I share with you a cool documentary by Christian Best, how the State Library is calling for ephemera, Joel and I chat through shows like Garry Starr: Classic Penguins, Giuseppe's Love Quest and Obituary WIP, and I let you into a secret Fringe show, Naked Cabaret.We're supported by our Platinum Partner Spruik. Spruik is an Adelaide-based digital marketing and SEO consultancy with over 25 years of technical expertise.Follow us on @theiconicblonde & @fringebenefitspodcastWe're friends and members of the P. Zinner Network. Check out all of their amazing sh...
2026-03-1349 minFringe Benefits2026 Week 3 - AI at the Fringe, send in the clowns (Mel McGlensey and PUSS PUSS), and Murder, She Didn't Write (ft Emma's Mum!!)We are well and truly in Fringe time!This week we chat the different ways that we've seen AI at the Fringe (some cool, some maybe not so much), we reflect on shows we've seen including: sh!tfaced shakespeare, Club Doggo, Mel McGlensey Is Normal, and PUSS PUSS, with a special podcast feature from my (Emma's) very own Mum.The wet weather has seen a downturn in Fringe ticket sales, so make sure you head out this long weekend and support a show or two! (or three! or four! or five!).We're supported...
2026-03-0642 minFringe BenefitsEXTRA FRILLS: Time Goes By with Tara BeyneAnother interview coming at'cha! 🌈🌈🌈 Today we're sitting down with Tara to hear all about her fantastic dance show, Time Goes By!Step into a high energy, feel-good blast from the past! ‘Time Goes By’ takes you on a spectacular journey through iconic decades of music, fashion and dance.Packed with nostalgia, impressive moves and exciting visuals, this dazzling production celebrates the music and memories that shaped generations. Audiences will not be able to stop singing with hits from Elvis, The Beatles, Irene Cara, Michael Jackson, Shania Twain, Britney Spears, NYSNC, Lewis Capaldi and more! ...
2026-02-2821 minFringe Benefits2026 Week 2 - Monkey men, David Byrne Dance, a slew of show reviews and Club Curious (ft Anthony!)We've officially made it to week 2 ya'll!In this episode we chat through the Fringe Ambassadors... or lack thereof, a serendipitous moment where a Fringe show and superstar collided, hear some on the ground reporting from Club Curious, and we recap a bunch of shows including: Dropped In: Crime Scene Improvisation (way funnier than I expected), Sinatra e De Maria, a late-night “best of” comedy showcase at Laneway Social, the brilliant non-verbal CHIMP at the Courtyard of Curiosities, and powerful reviews of Meteors and Good Man.Show shoutouts:✨ Adelaide Mail Week In Review✨ B...
2026-02-2729 minFringe BenefitsEXTRA FRILLS: Meteors by Melissa Pullinger and Connor Reidy (CRAM Collective)Another interview coming at'cha! 🌈🌈🌈 Today we're sitting down with writer and performer, Melissa Pullinger and Director, Connor Reidy, to hear all about their show 'Meteors'. Grief isn’t part of the conversation. Especially not as a young person. No one knows what to say, so it’s simply left unsaid.This premiere work from The CRAM Collective explores the complex impact of the immediate and lingering effects of grief on young people. Melissa tells the story of the death of her mother, too many lasagnes brought over by neighbours and the continual search for something or someone out...
2026-02-2428 minFringe Benefits2026 Week 1 - Fringe fun pre-launch, we met a clown, the Gluttony Gala, a Fringe show in a like you’ve never experienced before (in someone’s house!?)IT’S FRINGE!!! ✨✨✨ Yes, you heard that right. Today is the very start of the Adelaide Fringe. In this episode we chat through sneaking into the Garden Soiree, the launch of La Ronde, meeting, Cam Poter (@camonclown), the Gluttony VIP Gala (shows below!), and a very cool Fringe show our Fringe friends let us know about where you’re invited directly into someone's kitchen for a show like you’ve never experienced before.Show shoutouts:✨ Just To Be Close To You✨ Twenty Sixteen✨ GASHA | Adelaide Fringe✨ History of House: Greatest Hits...
2026-02-2019 minFringe BenefitsEXTRA FRILLS: Sinatra e De Maria by Emma De MariaIt's artist interview time, ya'll! 🌈🌈🌈 Today we're sitting down with Emma from Sinatra e De Maria to hear which pays homage to the incredible Frank & Nancy Sinatra through her favourite jazz standards and elements of dance. With soaring vocals, witty and unique family stories, and an important nod to mental health awareness, audiences will be left entertained and understood in this elegant, heart-warming cabaret.SHOW SHOUTOUTS!!!✨ Charlee Watt: Beating Up The Beatles✨ All Grown Up (but not really) by Billie-Rose Russell✨ Georgia Bell - dress artistFollow us on ...
2026-02-1720 minFringe Benefits2026 Week 0 - Everything you need to know for the Adelaide Fringe Opening Night (what shows to see, some new venues, and cool drink collabs!)The Adelaide Fringe is back, we're brighter and better than ever, and with one week out we are chatting through what's been going on, what you need to know and what's the go for the very first night of Fringe next Friday. We chat about some new venues that are happening around the East End, including Mimmo, The Glasshouse and the return of The Champagne Bar. There are two fringe drinks that you'll see out and about this year, including the Flagship Distillery Gin and The Garden Draught.We get you in the...
2026-02-1323 minFringe BenefitsFringe Benefits is BACK for 2026!Back and better than ever! Ready for Adelaide Fringe 2026! 😍Heaps good, Fringe Benefits is curated goodness for each Friday to ready up shows reviews, events you need to check out, behind the scenes insights and more! Let's do it again! xWe're supported by our Platinum Partner Spruik. Spruik is an Adelaide-based digital marketing and SEO consultancy with over 25 years of technical expertise.We're friends and members of the P. Zinner Network. Check out all of their amazing shows and events here now.
2026-02-0102 minFringe Benefits2025 Fringe Wrapped! Fringe Impact Report, Winner of the 2026 Poster Competition and Welcoming our new ProducerSo, Fringe 2025 is well and truly over. We like to round back on the season that was with our FRINGE WRAPPED, diving into some serious stats, sharing some great initiatives that keep Fringe accessible to everyone, turning back to our last on the ground interview of the season with our friend Ben (and the new friends we made along the way), looking forward to 2026, with the winner of the Fringe Poster Competition, chatting through the news of the Fringe CEO departure, and welcoming our new Producer for Fringe Benefits, Joel, to the team.See you next year...
2025-12-0435 minFringe Benefits2025 Week 5 - All The Top Shows to See This Last Weekend of Fringe!There are 3 days left of the Adelaide Fringe. Don't be sad, let's go see a Fringe show instead . Join me in recapping the season, and hearing all the best shows that you can grab tickets to NOW to make the most of your final weekend of Fringe. Till next year!It's 2025, and the Adelaide Fringe is officially back for another year of fun, frivolity and fringey goodness. Follow us on @theiconicblonde & @fringebenefitspodcastCover Art - @maria.makesthingsIntro/Outro Music - Dj Quadshttps://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quadshttps:/
2025-03-2013 minFringe Benefits2025 Week 4 - The Mystery of the Missing Mona Lisa, A Hidden Fringe Club (Curiosity) & Fringe Artists Speak Out on Season ToughnessWe have 2 weekends left of Fringe, so let's make the most of it! This week we chat about the mystery of the missing Mona Lisa, the crime that shocked the Fringe scene when an artist stole the prized possession from ARTHUR Art Bar, a variety of artists speak out on the festival season getting harder and harder to pull off performances in, and I fill you in on the hidden fringe club, Club Curiosity, that you too can get yourself into when you head over to Gluttony.It's 2025, and the Adelaide Fringe is officially...
2025-03-1326 minFringe Benefits2025 Week 3 - Fringe West End, The Cranker move and CBD Culture & Young Franco DJ set at Fringe (ft. Joel)We're right in the thick of Fringe Madness as we enter March and another weekend ticks over.This week we're chatting about all the great Fringe shows happening on the West End of town, how the Cranker's move to the Ed Castle might change the culture of that pocket of the CBD for the better, the Westbound Festival that's on next weekend, and Joel and I chat through our spontaneous night out where he thought he was seeing a stand up show, but somehow ended up at the Young Franco DJ set.It's 2025, and the...
2025-03-0725 minFringe Benefits2025 Week 2 - Prompt Creative Centre, How to Save At Fringe, & An Official Fringe Session AleWe're heading into the second weekend of Fringe, ya'll! 🌈 Welcome back to the FRINGE BENEFITS Podcast, where we'll be keeping you updated on the very best of the Adelaide Fringe every single week.This week, we chat about the people behind Prompt Creative Centre and why you need to visit this Fringe, how to save some cash when you're out and about at Fringe, and The Suburban Brew's Adelaide Fringe Session Ale.Follow us on @theiconicblonde & @fringebenefitspodcastCover Art - @maria.makesthingsIntro/Outro Music - Dj Quadshttps://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quad
2025-02-2813 minFringe Benefits2025 Week 1 - The Gluttony Gala, Maho Magic Bar & LIMBO! (ft. Gavin, Anthony & Joel)The Fringe is OFFICIALLY HERE!!! 🌈 Welcome back to the FRINGE BENEFITS Podcast, where we'll be keeping you updated on the very best of the Adelaide Fringe every single week.This week, we chat about LIMBO with Gavin, Maho Magic Bar with Anthony and the Gluttony Gala with Joel.Follow us on @theiconicblonde & @fringebenefitspodcastCover Art - @maria.makesthingsIntro/Outro Music - Dj Quadshttps://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quadshttps://twitter.com/DjQuads
2025-02-2119 minFringe Benefits2025 Week 0 - Fringe is here (well, kind of!) Ambassadors, A Super Secret Initiative, & Top Shows To SeeFringe has come early! 🌈 Welcome back to the FRINGE BENEFITS Podcast, where we'll be keeping you updated on the very best of the Adelaide Fringe every single week.It's 2025, and the Adelaide Fringe is officially back for another year of fun, frivolity and fringey goodness. Follow us on @theiconicblonde & @fringebenefitspodcastCover Art - @maria.makesthingsIntro/Outro Music - Dj Quadshttps://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quadshttps://twitter.com/DjQuads
2025-02-1415 minFringe BenefitsFRINGE BENEFITS is BACK for 2025!It's 2025, and you know what, we're back and better than ever!!! It's now 5 years on from our first episode, yet still the Adelaide Fringe holds our hearts, so hell yeah, FRINGE BENEFITS is back baby! Curated for your Friday morning drive to work, each week throughout the Fringe you're going to get show reviews, events you need to check out, behind the scenes insights, and more. Cannot WAIT for another Fringe with you!Intro/Outro Music - Dj Quadshttps://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quadshttps://twitter.com/DjQuads
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Fringe Benefits2022 Week 1 - The Fringe is back! Fringe Ambassadors, Frivolity at the Garden's VIP Preview event, and my (very secret) favourite barWOMP WOMP WOOOMMMPPPP - it's Season 3, ya'll! 🌈 Welcome back to the FRINGE BENEFITS Podcast, where we'll be keeping you updated on the very best of the Adelaide Fringe every single week.
It's 2022, and the Adelaide Fringe has appeased the COVID gods and is officially back for another year of fun, frivolity and fringey goodness.
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We mention:
Covid-safe Fringe practices (make sure you get your vax pass on your phone!)
The West Village
The Fringe Ambassadors - Reuben Kaye, Nazeem Hussain & Diana Nguyen (76,000 followers on LinkedIn... not 76 as I sai...
2022-02-1818 minFringe BenefitsFRINGE BENEFITS Season 3 is coming!We started FRINGE BENEFITS in 2020... how the hell are we already in Season 3?! Welcome to Fringe Benefits, your chance to peek behind the velvet curtain of the Adelaide Fringe and get up to speed on what shows to see, hints and tips to make for the best Fringe experience and tidbits of Fringe history and culture you might not already know... Can't wait to spend another great season with you for 2022!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fringe-benefits-adelaide/message
2022-02-1301 minFringe Benefits2021 Week 5 - Radio Shows, Choir Pro's and The Final Episode!It's the last show of 2021! The Adelaide Fringe has officially wrapped up and this last week has been packed full of Fringey fun as we say 2021 and done 🌈 I was lucky enough to be invited onto the Pride & Prejudice radio show to chat Fringe, attend the 2021 Adelaide Fringe Awards and squeeze in one last show before the end of the festival season.
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We mention:
Pride and Prejudice - listen to my interview HERE
The 2021 Adelaide Fringe Awards - winners here
Read up on the Fringe stats and data HERE
Choir...
2021-03-2610 minFringe Benefits2021 Week 4 - A Celebrity Proposal, New and Improved Fringe Clubs & Racist ReviewsIt's been another HUGE week at The Fringe! 🌈 Between a secret celebrity opening night proposal, COVID traces found in our wastewater (ahh!!) and racist reviews rocking performers and their supporters - the fourth week of Fringe has been full of up's and down's. I got myself a COVID-19 test (all clear!) and stayed away from shows for a few days to instead bring you a jam-packed educational episode that will hopefully get you up to speed with news you won't find on your Facebook feed. Make sure you check out the links in the show notes below, especially as we...
2021-03-1921 minFringe Benefits2021 Week 3 - March Madness, Sexy Squid Monsters & A Secret RPDR Down Under Queen RuVeal!It’s March! 🌈 March Madness is finally here and we only have just over two weeks left of the Fringe. We've been busy working out our glutes now that dancing is back in full swing at the Adelaide Fringe and by seeing every single Fringe show that we can fit in! 👏🏼 From Black Cabaret to powerhouse Gospo vocals, Sexy Squid Monsters to Secret Drag Queen TV Show cast reveals; week 3 of the Fringe has been busy and blessed for us Fringe Fanatics! 🌟
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2021-03-0717 minFringe Benefits2021 Week 2 - Footloose Fever, The ONLY Arts Festival In The WORLD & Feminists In PubsIt’s week two! And we’ve received the best present we could ever ask for… DANCING IS BACK! The SA Government announced this week that they are now allowing dancing under certain circumstances (honestly, who would have known I’d be writing that sentence this time last year!).
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We mention:
New Dancing Rules
Fringe Opening Night was amazing! Drinks at the Majestic Rooftop Hotel went great and we saw @nastia_lookin at Mary's!
Rundle St
The Garden of Unearthly Delights...
2021-02-2616 minFringe Benefits2021 Week 1 - A COVID-Safe 2021 Season, BTS on the Fringe Photoshoot & the Gluttony Gala OpeningIt's FRINGE-DAY! 🌟 The Adelaide Fringe is finally here for 2021! 🌈 Welcome back to the FRINGE BENEFITS Podcast, where we'll be keeping you updated on the very best of the Adelaide Fringe every single week.
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We mention:
It's our 5th year doing media for Fringe!
New features from a COVID-19 Safe Fringe
Introducing Frederique Fringe
BTS into the Fringe Photoshoot - Thanks Matt Furina!
The Austral
The Exeter
The Fringe has some really cool merch!
Gluttony Gala Opening Night! Thanks to Sassafras PR
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2021-02-1915 minFringe Benefits2020 Week 4 - FRINGE PANDEMICS! The Final Episode For 2020 & Keeping Up With COVIDWe're back! Well... kind of. It's been a year since the Fringe and it just didn't feel right to leave Season One without a proper ending. I know we don't normally get closure, but it just felt so wrong NOT finishing off from where we left things before COVID-19 hit with the FRINGE BENEFITS Podcast (and giving you a bit of a recap of what's been going on in the last year as a whole!).
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Who we mention:
Adelaide Festival F...
2021-02-1616 minFringe BenefitsEXTRA FRILLS: Emilie's Top Podcast Recommendations!It's Mini-sode time, baby! ⚡️ With COVID-19 changing life as we know it, our final episode of FRINGE BENEFITS has been pushed out a little bit (we're all about responsible social distancing in this household). But no fear, while you're safe at home, Emilie (our esteemed guest from episode two), brings you her very favourite podcast recommendations to keep you content-hungry kids well fed.
Support these amazing creators by listening to their podcasts and following them on social media - links below.
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Podcasts that Emilie recommends:
Shameless (Pop Culture) Host...
2020-03-2414 minFringe Benefits2020 Week 3 - Adelaide Fringe Club, Shakespearean Shows & Skyrocketing Ticket Sales with Maria Dizazzo!We’re three weeks into the Adelaide Fringe and we’ve heard ticket sales are on the up, seen heaps more shows and finally made it to Fringe Club! 🌟
I catch-up with my bestie of 16 years, @maria.makesthings (also, the person behind the amazing cover art for this podcast!) about what we’ve been seeing, how the Fringe has been faring for us so far and, the spooky coincidence of how the hell Maria's Instagram caption of us at Fringe three years ago was somehow "Fringe benefits" OOoooOOoooOooo SPOOKY!
Support these amazing Adelaide people and Fringe ar...
2020-03-0634 minFringe Benefits2020 Week 2 - Friendly Feminism, Blanc De Balls and MAFS Mental Health with Emilie Reynolds!TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide. Lifeline Australia - 13 11 14.
I chat with my corporate comms work-wife (and pop-culture obsessive), Emilie Reynolds, about feminism in pregnancy and mental health in Aussie reality TV, with a few smatterings of Fringe recommendations from art to feminist shows to queer performers. Tune in to hear me say intersectional incorrectly as “intersexual” multiple times! Support our amazing Adelaide people and Fringe artists by buying their tickets and following them on social media - links below.
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Who we mention:
Reality TV (Love Island, The Bachelor, MAFS)
@charsyjones & @the_s...
2020-02-2840 minFringe Benefits2020 Week 1- Gluttony Launch Spectacular, A Drunk Celebrity, and Fringe Advice from Jamie Pavs!It’s THE FRINGE!!! It’s finally here and for week one of our FRINGE BENEFITS podcast, I’ve sat down (in my bedroom) with Mental Health Advocate and fellow Fringe Lover Jamie Pavs @jamiepavs to recap on our time at the Gluttony Spectacular Opening Night, our very first night out at the Fringe and to give our recommendations for what’s to come. Support these amazing Adelaide people and Fringe artists by buying their tickets and following them on social media - links below.
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Who we mention:
Gluttony Spectacular Gala
Be...
2020-02-2031 min
Fringe BenefitsWelcome to Fringe BenefitsWelcome to Fringe Benefits. Each episode your host, Emma Dignon, will be catching up on all things Adelaide Fringe with a handpicked bunch of my besties, interviewing Fringe artists, reviewing shows, and giving you my very favourite personal recommendations for what you need to be getting up to this 2020 Adelaide Fringe.
Cover Art - https://www.instagram.com/maria.makesthings/
Intro Music - Dj Quads
https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
https://www.instagram.com/djquads/
https://twitter.com/DjQuads
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