When I saw the headline that started with “Archaos returns…’” I got all excited, and then read the rest: “…as exhibition celebrates revolutionary chainsaw wielding-circus“.
I remember when Archaos came to London. It was a very punk rock circus (musical accompaniment was provided by the band Chihuahua) and very French. Not in the Stella Artois advert sense, but in the Mano Negra sense, with the artists really living for their work.
They pitched up on Clapham Common, to much tabloid hysteria, and I went along to see them with a new girlfriend who was genuinely upset/offended by the show to the extent that she left at the interval, so I had to follow. I still wish I had stayed until the end because it really was a fantastic show which was not recorded or documented to the extent it should have been.
I would love to se a DVD of the Archaos show – although I’m sure it would be tame compared to the real thing with all the noise and petrol fumes. Other shows use smoke machines, but Archaos used to just set light to things to get smoke.
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