Preview // Top Reasons To Join The Circus: The Secret Circus @ Parr Street Studios [04/12/14]
WHAT does entertainment mean to you? Perhaps it's an evening at
the pub watching the match, a night out on Wood Street with the usual suspects,
or even nesting in your game-haven flat for the whole weekend... well for some
of us, entertainment is a Circus.
We just can't make up our minds; our attention spans are
constantly updating: a symptom of our generation's over-exposure to quick,
limitless information perhaps? I can't even watch a film all the way through
anymore - I have to pause in intervals to practice juggling, stab out a riff,
or start another movie. It's not ADHD, it's 2014, and we're bored! BOOOOOOR... !!
As if in answer to our nightly howls, artist extraordinaire Chanel Samson has conjured up the
answer, in collaboration with Eve Howlett of Carrot Club Promotions, to give the 'secret circus performers of Liverpool and it's
supportive cult audience a night of their own at least once a month. We accept
all the freaks and hope to make it a night of entertainment and true friends.'
This means Music, Magic, Spoken Word, Dance,
Burlesque- and, AT LAST, some god damn Fire Juggling! That's
some-!
1. Hot S@#% Right
There!
Photography: My
Boudoir
Fallen Angel's Petra will be juggling
fire - and aside from the re-opening of Viva Brazil, Liverpool, this bright
spark has performed at no less than Burning Man Festival, Nevada! Fire
performers are universally cool, and in the theatrical interior of Parr Street
Studios, Petra is sure to put on a show that'll leave you tingling all over. I
will stop making fire puns soon, I can already feel myself burning out…
As if it wasn't getting hot enough around here, burlesque dancers Mimi Amore, and Cece Sinclair
will be tickling your sensibilities with some beautifully choreographed dance.
Head to Mimi Amore's website for a teaser if
you've not been able to convince your partner to join you already!
Rachael Mellor, and Maria Angelica Andreassen are also set to deliver some wicked Dance straight into your
soles... Good god I have to stop with these puns... after this-
2. Abra Kadabra!
Magic man David Alnwick isn't just a top
magician... yes, magic. YES, MAGIIIIC- Mr Alnwick will have you clowns firmly
by the balls with his magnificent stage presence. After watching him rock the
mic at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival (which you can see HERE), I am under no
illusions - Alnwick will be one of the brighter sparks of the evening, and if
you miss him, I'll spend the rest of the night laughing in your face.
Think I'm tricking you? Check out The Skinny's Fred Fletch in his
wonderful review of David Alnwick: Totally Ninja.
3. The Music, Man
Airtight, The Good Host are rich in
experience; a trait evident in their wealth of instruments, time signatures,
harmonies, and most prominently, content. Front man and composer Jason Baxter
has a gift with words - lyrics that don't just tell a story, they beckon your
ear to explore their meanings. A very fitting event for such a theatrical
big-band, seeing TGH alone would be worth the trip down on a Thursday night!
Norwegian artist Nils Martin will also be joining
the stage - a new one for me: but that's what these nights are all about! New
experiences-
4. Write Now!
'No poet will ever take the written
word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken
word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.'
- Lascelles Abercrombie.
And thank you Google for that little gem!- Spoken Word artists Jake Demon Hawkes, and Tom George have more than a few
words for you, and I for one am getting extremely impatient for my next
word-smithery fix. Not since hearing rumours of The Wild Writers have I been so
excited to hear Liverpool's Spoken Word culture exhude their gorgeous lexis all
over the stage.
What would you rather hear come Thursday 4th December; the
two-toned gargle of another football commentary, or a multi-verse of lyrical
genius at The Secret Circus?
5. It's Where
Everyone Will Be...
Because, seriously, why on this shining Earth would they be
anywhere else, short of a medical emergency? And even then, it'd have to be a
f*%@ing shark attack or something…
Every city has it's attractions; but there isn't a night-club,
local pub, warehouse, basement party, hotel room, back-alley, restaurant,
street act, or jam-packed-gig in LIVERPOOL that could hold one measly candle to
what The Secret Circus stands for. Freaks, geeks, and psychos - it's
time to shine.
(J.C.B. Crawford)
