Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does The Love Go? is on at Underbelly Cowgate, Belly Button, during August.
- What is your Fringe show about?
Last year we met this amazing funk band in LA called Thumpasaurus and convinced them to come out to Edinburgh. They had a killer run and afterwards their singer Lucas wrote a 20 minute opera called Where Does The Love Go. We decided to team up and built it out to an hour-long collaborative show that is going to be very serious and artistic.
- How many times/many years have you appeared at the Fringe?
This is our fourth year and fifteenth show in Edinburgh. We started at CC Blooms on the Free Fringe in 2015 and have come back every year since.
- What’s your most memorable moment from the Fringe?
Jimmy Carr came to one of our first gigs and told us ‘just remember what I told you’ and we’ve remembered that forever.
- What’s the worst thing about the Fringe?
Realizing that just because you care about your art doesn’t mean everyone else does.
- If you were not a performer what would you be doing?
There’s not much we’d be able to do. Zach, Viggo and Jonny (our director) all dropped out of college before winding up in clown school in France. Pretty limited skill set.
- How do you prepare for a performance?
We all kiss each other on the lips backstage so we always remember that no matter what happens out there: everything is beautiful, everyone is perfect.
- Favourite thing about being in Edinburgh?
The last night of the festival we always get a bunch of our friends together to climb Arthur’s Seat and drink a bottle of scotch at sunrise. We’ve done this for the past four years and it’s one of the few times we’re all in the same place at the same time every year.
- What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve ever done?
Throw up underneath the Cowgate bridge.
- Favourite Scottish food/drink?
We really like your roasted cheese kurd flavoured crisps, snickerdunkers. Also Irn Bru obviously.
- Sum up your show in three words
Spring Break 2004.
Show summary
Following the first space war of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, a lone detective is contracted to find the love in this absurdist, avant-garde, funk opera. LA-based, intergalactic dance force, Thumpasaurus teams up with anarchic, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo for an hour of madness.
Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does The Love Go? is on at Underbelly Cowgate, Belly Button, during August. For tickets, plase visit www.edfringe.com
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