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Weird World of Sports – Featuring the Adelaide Flashmob!

Ben Teoh — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:24:25 +0000

Adelaide’s City Messenger have recently launched their Weird World of Sports video page, featuring different types of sport being played around Adelaide. Although, it might be a stretch to call what the Adelaide Flashmob does a ‘sport,’ we didn’t say no when the opportunity came up! They came out and took some footage of our Newspaper Mama event which was done in Rundle Mall, and added it to their Weird World of Sports roundup.

What’s even better is that they asked us (Ben Teoh and Nick Morris) to be part of their actual print article too! Check it out!

Ben Teoh and Nick Morris in Adelaide's City Messenger

Head over to the City Messenger’s Weird World of Sports page to see the video footage and other cool stuff happening in Adelaide.

Bayside Zumba hits Rundle Mall

Ben Teoh — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:02:01 +0000

Congrats goes out to Bayside Zumba for pulling together a great flashmob event here in Adelaide. Rundle Mall was swamped by people dancing, chanting, clapping, cheering… it was pretty full on! As would be expected, a huge crowd watched as the spectacle happened!

Well done!

Who Needs Pants? No Pants Tram Ride 2011

Ben Teoh — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:33:11 +0000

Superman, Sponge Bob, Astro Boy and Indiana Jones all made an apperance today at today’s No Pants Ride 2011. The Adelaide Flashmob were part of the first group of cities to take part in the global No Pants Subway Ride event run by Improv Everywhere. This annual event sees thousands of people worldwide on different forms of public transport taking of their pants and feeling the breeze! Thankfully, here in Adelaide the sun was out – a perfect day for a tram ride without pants.

At 12pm, the flashmobbers met up at Hindmarsh Square to run through the how things were going to work and to split into teams. After waiting for a few of the latecomers, we made our way to the Pirie STreet tram station for the first tram. Each of the teams were assigned a tram stop where they would get off, take their pants of and wait for the next tram. Communuters on the second tram watched on as more and more people entered the tram doors, without pants on.

We had some great reactions from some of the people onboard, and even the tram conductor had a bit of a laugh.

We finished our journey at a very busy Glenelg. There were people everywhere, and it didn’t take long for people sitting near the tram stop to notice that pantsless people were getting off the tram. After a couple of group photos and some conveniently free iceblocks, we all made our own ways back home – or to the pub for a bit of a laugh and to compare stories of the day’s events.

Thanks to everyone who came along – for those who participated, took photos, acted as support crew, or just wanted to have a laugh. Another great flashmob experience! Keep an eye out online for all of the other cities’ events.

Here’s a link to some of the photo albums from the day’s event:

Farewell 2010, thanks for the good times.

Ben Teoh — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:43:40 +0000

2010 – what a great year for the Adelaide Flashmob! It was a busy one this year, with a whole bunch of new events happening. We sang happy birthday to strangers, dressed up like Jackie Chan, rickrolled shoppers and launched a spontaneous musical in Rundle Mall… and that’s just for starters!

Adelaide Flashmob #17

The creatively named, Adelaide Flashmob #17 kicked us off for the year after a 6 month drought of flashmobs. We had a few different activities on the night, but the real highlight was ‘Happy Birthday’. We picked people out in Rundle Mall and burst into a rousing chorus of ‘Happy Birthday’ (including banners, and party whistles!) before quickly dispersing and finding our next victim friendly participant. Coincidently, one of the people we sang Happy Birthday to was Suresh from local band, The Sundance Kids. This meant that we managed to get a mention on Nova 919 the following week!

Quest For Jackie Chan

When Maria Tran contacted us about taking part in her Quest For Jackie Chan, we couldn’t say no. The Adelaide Flashmob was given the opportunity to send Jackie Chan our own personal message as part of Maria’s documentary. We did it the best way we knew how, by recreating some of our classic flashmobs, dressed as Jackie Chan – masks and all! Maria’s currently in Hong Kong, continuing to work on the documentary. We look forward to the finished product!

Adelaide RickRoll

With the Hairspray flashmob cancelled, we quickly put together something fresh to take its place… and possibly one of the best, and original flashmobs yet. We staged real-life rickrolls along Rundle Mall, surprising people as thirty people suddenly found themselves on the receiving end of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

Burst Into Song and Dance: Belle

As always, the Burst Into Song and Dance team did an amazing job of rehearsing, teaching and performing a great musical number. This time around it was ‘Little Town’ from the Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast. Despite the weather threatening to wash us out, the Christmas shoppers were entertained by the spontaneous musical and we drew a pretty large crowd. Good times! If you want to see a video of this, head over to the Adelaide Flashmob Facebook page.

That’s all folks!

Well, that’s us all done for another year (but of course, the first event for 2011 is just around the corner!). We’d like to thank everyone who has participated, brought their friends, helped out on the day and organised events. We wouldn’t be able to do this stuff without you!

Hope to see you in 2011 at one of our events!

Burst Into Song This Sunday!

Ben Teoh — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:40:33 +0000

With just days to go, our next event is almost ready to go! We’ve been fortunate enough to get a bit of media coverage this time around with the great people at FiveAA and the City Messenger.

If you’d still like to get involved, please come along on the day and learn the chorus parts. It’s going to be pretty simple, and we’d love as many people as possible to join in.

Find out the full details of Sunday’s event by heading over to our Facebook Page or check out our previous post: Belle – December 19th, 2010.

As always, this is all in the spirit of fun and good times!

Look forward to seeing you there!