WE WON'T ROCK YOU Set for Brighton Fringe, May 11
Eccentronic present their first 'mainstream musical' - featuring eccentric, electronic, enthralling songs about time-wasting, socks and visiting the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
A melee of electronic musical mash-ups and oddball humour, with musical influences from Queen and The Smiths, to Nine Inch Nails and Black Lace.
Eccentronic are John Callaghan (Warp Records) and Ms Hypnotique (glamorous television theremin player). We Won't Rock You marks the duo's first performance at Brighton Fringe, having previously performed as 'Hypnotique and Callaghan' at Edinburgh Fringe Festival for 2011's 'Waiting For Bono' – a musical comedy mashing up the classic Beckett play with electro-pop-meets-rock musical vignettes - not endorsed by the estates of U2 or Samuel Beckett.
We Won't Rock You sees the eccentric-electronic duo shed light on the William Blakian question of whether you can be creatively good and commercial, by attempting to produce their own hit musical.
The show's music is produced by the eccentric mind of producer and life model John Callaghan, whose electronic music and self-made videos have been released on the seminal Warp Records label. His work includes a lathe-cut single with hand-knitted covers which disintegrates after 50 plays, a remix of Autechre, and filming a pop video on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth.
Ms. Hypnotique is a performer of gothic chanson and the theremin (a 1920s electronic instrument played without touch). Her world theremin domination has seen her tell Eamonn Holmes, 'you lack discipline' on the 'New Paul O'Grady Show' (Channel 4), performing on 'James May's 20th Century' (BBC2), and thereminising in Trafalgar Square for Anthony Gormley's 'Fourth Plinth' project. Her latest single was released only on wax cylinder format (and requiring a wax cylinder to hear it).
Videos
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Burn the Floor: Supernova Venue Cymru (6/19-6/19) |
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Funhouse Comedy Club – Comedy Night in Ross-on-Wye June 2026 Corn Exchange (6/26-6/26) |
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That'll Be The Day Corn Exchange Theatre (6/10-6/10) |
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