triple j’s Ben and Liam fool media with brilliant ARIA red carpet hoax

Forget about Spotify’s fake artists, triple j’s Ben and Liam staged the ultimate red carpet stitch up at yesterday’s ARIA Awards.

Bringing along a car load of artist doppelgangers impersonating the likes of Meg Mac, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Peking Duk’s Adam Hyde, the entourage fooled their way through the media masses as they walked the red carpet.

 

Limo hangs on the way to the ARIA’s with Meg Mac, Kevin Parker and Adam from Peking Duk ?

A post shared by Ben and Liam (@benandliam) on Nov 27, 2017 at 8:49pm PST

They did a fine job too as reporters and photographers began to snap and chat with the “stars”. TV presenter James Tobin even fell victim, taking aside Kevin Parker and listening to his half-baked story about seeing Daryl Braithwaite perform in “a pub in the middle of nowhere”.   

The operation was a lasting success, for the most part, before the imposter who was acting as Adam Hyde was uncovered by the real Adam Hyde himself.

Brendan(keys) got caught pretending to be Adam Hyde from @pekingduk by Adam Hyde at the @ARIA_Official @triplej pic.twitter.com/E0m7ZO5yxx

— DEEP SEA ARCADE (@deep_sea_arcade) 28 November 2017

In a completely unrelated endeavour, Ben & Liam made a call out in November seeking anyone who looked exactly like a famous Australian musician to come forward in a very hush-hush scheme coined Operation: Winterfell.

The callout says it all: “To get in is borderline impossible. Unless you blend in. Unless you’re one of those special people who don’t even need a ticket, because your face is the ticket.”