Blog: The 405

Have you ever seen a singing corpse, a man boxing a pig carcass, an overweight cross dressing tramp, a tree made of coat hangers and French footballers depicted as saints, on their own let alone all in the same show? I didn't even realise that I was coming to see such a surreal performance at the Barbican Centre. I thought that I had come to hear a unique orchestra backing the talents of Jarvis Cocker and national treasure, Damon Albarn, and also discover the voices of Dot Allison, Gavin Friday, Michael Henry, Owen Gilhooly and Nigel Richards. Instead I was [...]