An evening of Stinkfoot's song woven with Stinkfoot's story as told by Tony Slattery...in the hope that out there somewhere is a someone who can see that this one-of-a-kind Musical Comedy must find its way back onto the stage...in all its quirky surreal hilarious and unusual Glory!
Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera is a salty watery mythical tale of art & fart devised by the legendary Vivian Stanshall and his wife Ki Longfellow-Stanshall for Ki's good ship Thekla. She was called The Old Profanity the moment she bumped up against the Bristol docks as a theatre and a cabaret and an art gallery and a music-of-every-kind venue - and so began her reign of floating hard-sailing joy.
Stinkfoot was the finest of all her fine moments.
And now, after all these years, Stinkfoot in Concert will appear on the ship that birthed her.
Mark these dates all ye hearties: July 20th, 21st, 22nd, & 24th, 2010.
If you are a member of FACEBOOK, Stinkfoot has a fan page! Plus Thekla attendance.
With a starry Master of Ceremonies, 4 best-of-the-best singers, including Nikki Lamborn of Never the Bride and Vivian & Ki's daughter Silky Longfellow-Stanshall, fans of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and its heroic leader, Vivian Stanshall, are already planning to invade the Bristol docks for this historic event.
Stinkfoot was the very best of Vivian, bursting with inventiveness and oodles of new songs - never sung since 1985 and never recorded.
What could be more different and unusual?
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The Times reviewed it then: "Ideas spill out of Stanshall: pastiche, the surreal, visual jokes, and new songs by the conveyor belt (several are infinitely better than most of what masquerades as Top 20 material these days)."
"It's embarrassingly autobiographical," Vivian once said, "...full of ruthless brutes, able to do cold-bloodedly without fear those things a human being - particularly a sensitive artist - could not accomplish."
"I wouldn't miss it," says Ki, "but then I can't since once again I'm happily drowning in it. I know for sure Vivian'll be there. As a ghost, he's as usual—very unusual."
"Stinkfoot is the most surreal, exciting and toe-tapping musically theatrical experience you are likely to see in a very long time... don't miss this opportunity!" Quoted from a Mysterious Famous Person.
Concert Cat & Poster created by Anneliese Shaw, ably assisted by Michael Pearce
Scratchy Cat created by Vivian Stanshall
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