While circuses may fascinate many - either in terms of the tongue-in-cheek grotesquery of the 'carny' or the slapstick farce of clowns chucking water over each other - personally I've never quite seen the attraction. They're often facile and meaningless - and those which inflict needless cruelty on animals just make my stomach churn... so,While circuses may fascinate many – either in terms of the tongue-in-cheek grotesquery of the 'carny' or the slapstick farce of clowns chucking water over each other – personally I've never quite seen the attraction. They're often facile and meaningless – and those which inflict needless cruelty on animals just make my stomach churn… so, when the news that the Avatar freakshow was rolling into Belfast for an all ages show at the city's Oh Yeah Centre, the prospect didn't exactly set this particular reviewer alight with anticipation! Family commitments meant that yours truly arrived just as openers Little Miss Stakes (https://www.facebook.com/lmsboo) were finishing their set, but by all reports Belfast's own resident freaks gave a good account of themselves and served as a tasty enough appetizer for the main course to come later. Veterans Sinocence (https://www.facebook.com/sinocence), however, seemed slightly out of place on this bill, and indeed also over the heads of many of the younger fans present: but, using the philosophy of 'play anywhere to anyone', the four lads squeezed themselves onto the small space at the front of the stage (the headliners had apparently insisted they needed half the stage area for their backdrop – although how [...]
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