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Brand X

Horse Hospital regulars Brand X have this show on at the Riverside, go see!

'DIE' at Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6.
Now playing until Feb 14th at 8pm (not Sundays)
Tickets just £10 (£6 concs)
Cheap Tuesday (10th Feb) - first 30 tickets just £5!
Groups £8 tickets for 10+

'DIE' on the web at http://www.gawkagogo.com/die.html

DIE
Riverside Studios

TIMEOUT CRITIC's CHOICE OF THE WEEK!

"Marvellously tasteless mayhem from start to finish, 'DIE' combines the brutality of 'South Park', the puppetry of 'Spitting Image', the ghastliness of a rock musical, the surrealism of Chris Morris and the zany kitsch of Frank Zappa. Written and directed by Sarah Nield and Paul Garner for Brand X Productions, it is a satire of a corporate-run Hell spun out in 70 maniacal minutes. In this time, Deathrow Jethro has his soul assessed for damnation following his electrocution on the 'Justice Channel' for the mass murder that he was driven to by his 300lb trailer park mom.
But do not expect much story: this is simply in-yer-face pandemonium. Staged like a cartoon strip, its hellfire madness is spun out with latex caricatures of schizoid celebrities, live action in Disney-style S&M costumes and an entirely travestied species of Balinese puppetry. Then, holding the lunacy together, Martin Pavey's soundtrack ranges from funeral parlour muzak to booming gunfire and Lloyd Webber-esque arias set to screeching thrash metal.
There is absolutely no time for reflection in this relentless, eschatological bombardment. The summit of its hilarity (or depth of depravity) comes with the line-up of randomly generated horror singers. Cue a puppet of Dolly Parton wailing 'I Will Always Love You' while her giant bazookas flip open with pop-out pics. Then there's Elephant Man Elvis - 'I'm not an animal, I'm The King!' - slurping his way through the Presley repertoire. But the most killing joke of all is Frankenstinatra and the all-dead 'rot pack' singing 'come die with me, let's putrify away!' Happily, what starts with a grisly execution ends with a spoof 'celebrity birth' TV programme brought to us on a 'cunt cam'. The crackpot creators of this show are bound to have a real-life TV show of their own very soon - so catch them live and dangerous first."

Patrick Marmion.

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posted by James on February 2, 2004 11:26 AM
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