The Pulse Festival
We were thrilled to be invited to help curate the music programme for the Pulse Fringe Festival at the New Wolsey Theatre this year. In a mean-spirited act of nepotism, we chose only our close personal friends for this great promotional opportunity. And, as usual, updating the website slipped our minds.
Consequently, you may have missed some or all of the following: Dead Rat Orchestra, Sealionwoman, Nathaniel Robin Mann and John Callaghan. If so, click this link and imagine the scene…
An après-show party on the opening night in the New Wolsey Theatre bar. A room full of egocentric luvvies chatting away over Dead Rat Orchestra’s avant folk noodlings. Daniel Merrill drags a huge log into the centre of the crowd and drops it on to the carpet. The three Rats set about it with their axes. Wood chippings fly into people’s faces, into their food; people cover their drinks and the audience falls into silent appreciation, safe in the knowledge that this part of the show has been fully risk-assessed.
The theatre manager was unimpressed. But, for the 13th Pulse Festival in a row… no one died.
