The Listies Make Some Noise
THE LISTIES
Returning to Edinburgh Fringe for the TENTH time and WINNERS of the 2019 Primary Times Award for Best Production for Children at Edinburgh Fringe
An insane mixtape of silly songs, stupid sketches and crazy clowning!
For over a decade the award-winning Listies have toured the world doing shows for literally gazillions of kidults (that’s kids and their adults). Now it’s your turn.
The Listies Make Some Noise is a comedy concert for humans aged 4-400. Join the maestros of mirth Rich and Matt, as they belt out a bunch of songs with the LOLs turned up to 11.
Will they be in tune? Almost.
In time? Not quite.
In order? Definitely
Can Rich dance? Let’s find out.
It’s a party for your ears and both of them are invited! Hilarious, fabulous fun for the whole family!
Credits
Written & Performed by Matthew Kelly & Richard Higgins as The Listies!
Music and Lyrics The Listies and Ryan Ritchie
Lighting Designer Emma Lockhart Wilson
Video Graphics Emma Valente
Sound Design Iva Lottagas
About the Artists
The Listies are Richard Higgins and Matthew Kelly, a comedy double act who are serious about being silly. They formed during the latest Ice Age (2008) to perform absurdist comedy to elderly people (i.e. 18+) but switched to full time kids comedy in 2011, and finding it to be a wondrous and rewarding sphere full of joy, never looked back (plus the hours are heaps better).
To date, they have claimed to have written ten-ish award-winning and critically acclaimed live shows, collaborated with most major theatre companies and festivals in Australia, toured three continents, recorded four albums, and published four books with Penguin – and they have two books on the way. Though we only have their word for this…
On Australian television you can see them on ABC with their shows Art Blast, The Listies Work For Peanuts, and What’s With the Listies?, their music video Wash Your Hands (with Zoe Coombs Marr and muso Ryan Ritchie) and occasionally in the background of outside weather broadcasts.
In 2022 they performed over 110 shows to tens of thousands of people all over Australia, New Zealand and Scotland. Nearly all of them stayed awake and only some of them vomited. Recently, in what may have been an administrative error, they won the Edinburgh Fringe’s ‘Primary Times Award for Best Production for Children’.
In the past they have received a Sydney Theatre Award, 'The HarperCollins Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book', and the Best Independent Show (Golden Gibbo Award) at Melbourne Comedy Festival, (and they are still the only kids act to have been nommed for the Comedy Festival’s ‘Best Show’ Award). What can we say – the bribery seems to have worked.
They are currently working on a narrative podcast series and a new book.
“★★★★½
This is high-quality children’s comedy, which will amuse and entertain the whole family.”
“★★★★½
The result is an hour of rambunctious fun so clever, and so perfectly attuned to its audience, it wouldn’t surprise me if The Listies became the first children’s comedy act to win top gong at the Comedy Festival.”
“Move over Sir Ian – Hamlet’s zombie nun light sabre fight has never been more expertly rendered”
“Without a doubt the funniest kids show I’ve ever seen… I really, really laughed. I’d have been happy to go on my own and still would’ve laughed… If you’re [in Edinburgh] with a kid, or even not, I’d go and see the Listies.”
“If the Wiggles are the Eagles then the Listies are the Sex Pistols.”
“No-one else does comedy for kids this brilliantly, and what’s more the adults have just as much fun!”
