As a winged feather on the wild wind...

Our business is beginning to take shape - I can smell the concrete dust settling and the foundations of the company getting stronger by the day. Fiscally speaking we're feeling a lot more comfortable now - it is amazing how much a little financial stability goes a long way towards bolstering your creativity in the rehearsal room.

We're looking a lot at the work of early 20th Century German artist George Grosz, notable for his dalliances with abstract realities and strong socio-economic commentaries in the context of huge national, international and political upheavals.

As you can see, his works often have a multi-layered and cut/paste paper aesthetic that closely resembles our own. The colours too are vivid and serve to drape the action in this lusty, deep and dark, almost gory intensity

that makes you think, "bloody hell, what's going on in this is disgusting...but my eyes adore the colours." That juxtaposition between the aesthetically attractive and the morally abhorrent is exactly the way we want to explore the trying issues of our times. We reckon it's a really effective method for winning people's minds and dodging that nasty habit of political theatre - falling foul of the sermon on the mount impression. And just to stop the rumours - we're not Marxists! Left, right or centre it don't matter to us. Our pal Mr Grosz has been saying it all along (and doubtless others too), that politics is as convoluted, paradoxical and versatile a process as its main ingredient - people.

Some good news - our new website has gone live today, courtesy of the Mighty Drive lads. And here it be in all its tasty glory. Enjoy...but save some flesh for me.

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