Fun-Da-Mental As Anything

FUN-DA-MENTAL AS ANYTHING!

Fringe Review: Furnace & the Fundamentals

Venue: The Fantail (20/3/26)

Chaos reigned in the city last night with cult status cover band Furnace & The Fundamentals.

The raucous 6 piece band had earlier flown in from NZ and showed no signs of fatigue as they unleashed their own brand of 'musical mayhem' on Adelaide.

A news flash is suddenly beamed onto the big screen to the sounds of wailing vocals from Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song'. The rules of the show are about to be delivered:

Resist the urge to dance
Resist the urge to party
Above all DO NOT SING!

You walk in expecting a band…
They deliver a religious ritual. Band members adorned in hooded cloaks slowly enter the eerily lit mock chapel complete with stained glass window backdrop.

The switch is then flicked with the band launching into an opening medley mash-up featuring 'I Gotta Feeling' (Black Eyed Peas), 'Party Rock Anthem' (LMFAO), 'I will Always Love You' ( Whitney Houston), and an accapella version of Kiss favourite 'I Was Made for Loving You'.

Rules broken, gloves off, the frenzied crowd then loses its collective mind and goes into 'mayhem mode' with jumping, singing, dancing and obligatory arms in the air.

Nothing was off the table. We had explosions, pyrotechnics, a CO2 Cryo gun (fog blaster), A giant inflatable unicorn, and dozens of plastic blow-up man-dolls thrown into the crowd to the tune of 'It's Raining Men' .

Memorable classics included 'Kung Fu Fighting', 'Hot Potato, Hot Potato', 'Staying Alive' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and crowd favourite 'Hot,Hot, Hot' which had an elevated Furnace being chaired above the crowd while we belted out "Ole, Ole...Ole Ole.... it's Hot, Hot, Hot!".... and that it was.

Hit after hit was reigned upon us and fittingly the band sent us off with a 'Sweet Caroline' singalong.

The sweaty, exhausted crowd then filed out in shock pondering "what the well just happened in there??".

Many women were seen walking home smiling like Cheshire cats with their prized souvenir blow-up man under their arm. This was one of the few nights where she can take home a strange bloke, and safely throw him out in the morning.

Adelaide Fringe
Furnace And The Fundamentals