Press release:
2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Miss Hypnotique and John Callaghan are:
Waiting For Bono
“These two should NEVER be allowed to work together.”– Phantom Circuit radio
Exclusive! Bono leaves U2′s world tour to play the Free Fringe(The Phoenix, Venue 146). Let’s hope he turns up, or Miss Hypnotique and John Callaghan will have to entertain you with absurd electronica mash-ups and spooky theremin. Join England’s top performers of ‘Eccentronica’ – a quirky mix of electronic music and offbeat humour – with special guests from the best of the Fringe. Waiting For Bono mixes up musical comedy, improvisation and cabaret in a bucketful of nonsense (with a cheeky nod to playwright Samuel Beckett).
The show’s music is produced by the eccentric mind of John Callaghan, whose electronic music and self-made videos have been released on the seminal Warp Records label. For Warp’s Recreated project, Callaghan re-interpreted a techno classic by Autechre. For his 2010 single Once More With Feeling, an army of knitters from Ipswich created hand-knitted covers for a record which disintegrates after 50 plays. John’s other appearances include improvisation, nudity and audience participation at the Sex Flies art show in Vienna, modelling for Rankin and as a swashbuckling judge in Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
The ‘splendidly named Miss Hypnotique’ (The Times) is a virtuoso performer of gothic chanson and the intriguing theremin, the 1920s Russian electronic instrument played without touch. Her quest for world theremin domination has seen her telling Eamonn Holmes, ‘you lack discipline’ on the ‘New Paul O’Grady Show’ (Channel 4), performing ‘The Swan’ on ‘James May’s 20th Century’ (BBC2), and thereminising in a mask and drinking tea in Trafalgar Square for Anthony Gormley’s ‘Fourth Plinth’ project. She was a member of several indie bands championed by John Peel including Heist, Nought and Scottish Borders-based ‘popsters extraordinaire’ (NME) Dawn of the Replicants.
Waiting For Bono debuted in 2010 at Hatch festival where the duo waited for Bono in a spider-filled bar above Clinton Cards in Nottingham. Bono has subsequently met Bill Clinton and wrote Spider-Man the musical. The pair are still waiting. Bono said he would come again, so they waited at the Beautiful Days festival in Devon where the duo created a hazardous custard pie slipstream warming up for British Sea Power. The duo’s Edinburgh Fringe debut is sure to be full of surprises.
Audience reactions to past performances of Waiting for Bono:
“Like Throbbing Gristle meets Reeves and Mortimer. Fabulous!”
“Bonkers…clever, brilliant music and very, very, funny.”
Video: “With or Without You” at Hatch Festival, 2010 (video link)
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Show info:
Venue: Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix (venue 146)
46 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3SA
Dates: 20 – 28th August 2011
Time: 18:50 (ends 19:40)
Tickets: FREE venue – no booking required
For press information contact:
Susi O’Neill, email: susi@digitalconsultant.co.uk
Tel: 07981 222799 Skype: susi.oneill
Join in
For show updates follow the show on Twitter: @waitingforbono
If you have spotted Bono tell us with the hashtag #waitingforbono
Or add a comment to the website: www.hypnotique.net/bono
