Rock And Roll Stand-Up Trio Mik Artistik's Ego Trip Return To Pyramid
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 26, 2017
The trio are an edgy, funny, poetic unit who play rock and roll stand up: they are Glastonbury regulars having performed multiple shows at each of the last eight Worthy Farm festivals.
Chaos ensues whenever the trio take to the stage, as they will at Pyramid on Friday 9 June, with Mik tumbling around, spluttering lyrics, tripping over leads and throwing straws around.
He also likes to spout random observations and share his unusual train of thought with the audience.
Guitarist Jonny Flockton and Benson Walker on bass dutifully hold fort, trying to rein Mik in while creating a backdrop which is equal parts joyous, funky, elegant and rocky: every show is different.
Mik Artistik's Ego Trip have appeared on Channel 4's Random Acts, had slots at Bath Comedy Fest, and Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe Festivals, as well as supporting the legendary Chas & Dave at their O2 Academy show in Leeds.
Their performances have prompted glowing reviews and flattering descriptions including "sensational" and "brilliant" from the likes of performance poet John Cooper Clarke, and comedian Johnny Vegas once called Mik "the mad professor of comedy".
The trio have gone down a storm at the last two Warrington Contemporary Arts Festivals gaining commendation from Culture Warrington as a "strange and wonderful beast of a band".
BBC 6 Music has taken the band to heart and crowd favourite Plastic Fox was one of its "recommends" tracks, essentially a "single of the week".
Last year presenter Gideon Coe said they were "the best live band I have seen all summer" and breakfast show host Shaun Keaveny said they were "as mad as a wasp trapped under a pint glass".
Keith Allen simply described them as "genius".
Tickets for this rare treat go on sale this Friday, 27 January at 9am.
For more information visit www.pyramidparrhall.com.
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