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HENGE + Special Guest Mr Vast 7:30pm Sat 23rd November, The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes
Attention Humans! This is HENGE.
We are not from this world.
We bring you music from distant planets.
We offer this gift for the edification of humankind… so that eventually your species may put an end to war and set up new homes in space.
Extra-terrestrial joymongers - HENGE - have been delighting audiences in the UK and Europe since they landed on Planet Earth nine years ago. Their scintillating live performances earned them ‘Best Live Act’ at the Independent Festival Awards and they have since cemented their reputation with three acclaimed albums, numerous tours and regular main-stage festival appearances.
Their music escapes definition, but occupies a space between rave and prog rock that nobody knew existed. It is energetic, subversive and invigoratingly playful, jovially breaking new ground. Ultimately, these intrepid creatures are spreading a message of hope which leaves audiences feeling amused and uplifted in equal measures.
Support comes from Mr Vast aka John Higgs, author of The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds, William Blake vs the World and Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche.
Mr Vast – aka Henry Sargeant – trained as an actor and ‘dark clown’ before veering off into music as frontman for the legendary Wevie Stonder, dubbed by the BBC as “the Monty Python of electronic music”. Expanding on the same brand of anarchic comedy and wild fusion of musical influences, Mr Vast is a one-man show that resists easy definitions: a slapstick cabaret, a surrealist happening, an avant-garde concert, a tragicomic carnival, an ecstatic ritual.
Carrying the torch of the Great English Eccentric and music hall variety performance into the post-Brexit 21st century, Mr Vast also draws on the Theatre of the Absurd, the archetype of the fool and international folk traditions in his weird & wonderful characters, costumes, masks and props. A metamorphic presence and shamanic compère, Vast takes audiences on journeys into fantastic new worlds, summoning the deepest desires and fears from our collective unconscious.
His new album – Tinker’s Cuss – will be released in November this year.
Recommended if you like:
Stevie Wonder; The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band; Dada; Scarfolk;
David Lynch; Frank Zappa; Prince; Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band; Sun City
Girls; Marc Bolan / T. Rex; Funkadelic; Bruce Lacey; Ivor Cutler; Buster Keaton;
Reeves & Mortimer; Matt Berry; Robert Calvert; A Hawk & A Hacksaw; Telex;
Boards of Canada; Heaven 17; Liquid Liquid; The B-52’s; Church of the SubGenius
Tickets priced £15 are on sale now from Seetickets.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Craufurd Arms (Live Music Venue), Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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