Circus of Horrors - on Tour!

It’s time to taste the fruit of intemperance once again as The Circus of Horrors takes to the bloody boards for a terrifying tour of venues up & down the country.

The new show will packed with new shocks & new blood to add to the established freaks that have become household names (Well at least in the Bates Motel). It will be a blissfully burlesque barrage of the bizarre & make the unbelievable believable. It will include lot’s of daredevil & downright dangerous circus acts from all over the world - all bumping & grinding to the shock rock of the X Factor performing an original score plus classic tunes by The Rolling Stones, Arthur Brown & Steppenwolf. It will of course be performed with a fork tongue firmly in each cheek, It will be ‘bloody good fun’ (Time Out), 'bloody marvelous' (Edinburgh Festival).

3rd - 4th November  Croydon - FAIRFIELD in association with Witchfest 0208 688 9291
5th November   Dorking - Halls 01306 881717
7th November   Hasting - White Rock Theatre 01424 462288
8th November   Bournemouth - Pavilion 0870 1113000
9th November   Sailsbury - City Hall 01722 434434
10th November   Newport (south wales) - Riverfront 01633 656757
11th-12th November  Harlow - Play house 01279 431945
13th November   Grimsby - Auditorium 0870 0602331
14th November   York - Grand Opera House 0870 6063595
15th November   Chester - Gateway Theatre 01244 340 392
17th November   Wolverhampton - Wulfrun Hall 01902 552 121
18th November   Colwyn Bay - Victoria Pier 01492 534100
19th November   Newtown Theatre Harfren 01686 625007
21st November   Colchester - Mercury 01206 573 948
22nd November   Retford - Majestic 01777 706866
23rd November   Stockport - Plaza 0161 477 7779
24th November   Nottingham - Concert Hall 0115 989 5555
25th November   Colne - Muni 01282 661234
26th November   Preston - Charter Theatre 017722 58858
27th November   Whitehaven Civic Centre 01946 852821
28th November   Warrington - Parr Hall 01925 442345
29th November   Halifax - Victoria Hall 01422 351158
30th November   Newcastle - Tyne Theatre 0870 1451200
1st December   Carlisle -  Sands Centre 01228 625 222
2nd December   Hartlepool - Town Hall 01429 890000
3rd December   Skegness - Embassy 01754 768333

And quite frankly it’s bloody must for everyone.

It is now over a decade since the Circus of Horrors reared it’s ugly head at the Glastonbury Festival 95’. Since then it has toured relentlessly around the World achieving cult status and generally dragging Circus screaming and shouting into the 21st century. Now its back with a brand new show that is bigger & bidder than ever. WHAT’S THE STORY? There is a long-established and tragic tradition of sweet-natured young virgins being led off the rails by the repulsive, foul, filthy behavior of blood-sucking vampires. The Circus of Horrors has such a victim by the name of Ragen, join if you dare, as she awakes to find herself in her latest nightmare, deep inside the Vampire Vaudeville commonly known as the almighty Circus of Horrors. Once inside you’ll come face to face with oddities, fakirs and sensational Circus acts bringing you an amazing amalgamation of death defying flying Trapeze artists, Witchdoctors, Voodoo acrobats, A pickled person emerging from a tiny bottle and Vampires flying through the air suspended only by their hair. Presided over by The Undead Ringmaster Doktor Haze who takes you through this Vampire Vaudeville with live devil driven rock n’ roll by his band The X Factor and a uncontrollable cast of burlesque beauties, chasosmongers and some of the worlds greatest, grotesque, most daring & bizarre Circus acts, all woven into this gory, glory, Alice in Horrorland style story. Re-vamped & rockin for the 05 /06 tour WHAT THE PAPER SAY The shows biggest asset though is its humor with London’s Time Out describing it as ‘Bloody Good Fun’ & ‘Carry on Coffin’ La Nacion in Buenos Aires glorified ‘You’ll Die Laughing’ and the Abendzeitung in Munich called it ‘The Funniest Show On Earth’, while The Telegraph said ‘Circus Without A Condom’ the Japanese Times shouted ‘Better Than Sex’, and Edinburgh Festival 2002 hailed ‘Bloody Marvelous’. In 2004 London's ‘Time Out’ credited it as the critics show of the week for an unprecedented 6th time, the show was also given the accolade of ‘Contemporary Circus of the year’ by ‘The Worlds Fair’, an award previously won by Cirque Du Soleil. THE CIRCUS OF HORRORS OBITUARY. The show was formed in the summer of 1995 and made its debut at the Glastonbury festival of that year, since then it has toured extensively with arena tours of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Holland and in Festival dates throughout the UK, Ireland & Germany, plus an unprecedented 29 weeks at Camden’s Roundhouse. It has performed at many high profile events such as the Edinburgh Festival 3 times, on a cameo role on ‘London's Burning’ and on ‘Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’. With Robbie William's for A televised Royal Command performance attended by Prince Charles . Lots of its act’s have been featured on Davina MaCalls Don’t try this at Home, The Jerry Springer Show, Guinness World Records & on So Graham Norton & the Salon. The whole cavalcade of chaos was also transported to Japan where the show performed at the Fuji Festival and appeared with the Cradle of Filth on the Burial Gown Video & current DVD which was shown regularly on MTV.The show has recorded 2 soundtrack Albums and is about to record it’s 3rd, all are on general release on Silva Screen Records.

COMPETITION!

Want to go see The Circus of Horrors in Carlisle (1st December) at The Sands Centre? Want to take a mate to hold your hand? Course you do.

To win, all you have do is answer this question -

The Circus Of Horrors was created at chance meeting between Dr. Haze and Gerry Cottle, but where did they meet?

Was it at....

a) a grave-diggers convention
b) while on holiday in Transylvania
c) a funeral

 
If you need a clue, go to The Circus Of Horrors website - www.circusofhorrors.co.uk/ - and check out their weird and wonderful history.

email your entries to skiddlefested@aol.com

Closing date is Sunday 20th of November at midnight, naturally.

Usual rules apply.  Cheating, multiple answers etc...binned.