Cococo Apocalypso is a brand new night of dada cabaret, surreal electronic music, decadent poetry, humourous repartee and exquisite theatrics taking place in various haunted inns in Nottingham which brings the spirit of Weimar cabaret to the post-industrial East Midlands.

The launch event takes place on Tuesday November 11^th from 8pm at Chameleon Café, Angel Row, and features a night of beard-themed wit and entertainment in celebration of headline act KUNT AND THE GANG, a band with a legendary MySpace and YouTube following, who come to the city for the first time as part of their 40-date tour to launch their new record "Men with Beards (What are they hiding?)". 

Performance artist and chanteur Kunt has been experimenting with life as a bearded-man by growing his own to counteract his phobia of men with beards during his 7-week tour which he diarises in his blog: www.myspace.com/kuntandthegang.  His beard shenanigans have so far included learning how to stalk women hiding in the bushes and becoming a professional beggar outside a BP garage.  Nottingham marks the final week of his experiment.

Kunt will be supported by high calibre regional avant-garde musical and comic talent including theremin virtuoso Hypnotique, angry-young-man rapper Sleaford Mods and comics James Hately and EssexPubOrgy who will provide some insights into life for people with facial hair.

Cococo Apocalypso is the brainchild of writer, singer, musician and performance artist Miss Hypnotique, who says: "Having performed all over Europe with various acts, I realised I had never performed in my home town, and in these depressing times a city like Nottingham needs glambiance – to be entertained by exotic, surreal, delightful and thought-provoking art, music and performance in a digestible variety which is more common on the continent. The nights will be a showcase for touring international artists, accompanied by the strange, murky and exquisite performing talent which lurks unloved in our city's dark underbelly.  The emphasis is on quality entertainment rather than seedy spectacle – inspiring showmen and women rather than under-dressed burlesque dancers."

Audience participation is very much part of the fun.  There will be a door entry discount of £1 for men with beards, although Miss Hypnotique explains: "Women with beards are also welcomed under equal opportunities legislation.  However we will be enforcing strict beard-compliance rules on the door to ensure that facial hair is of sufficient calibre to merit a discount.  A number of young men in Nottingham tend to sport excessive designer stubble which is indicative of lazyness rather than a commitment to the serious art of beard growing."

Future Cococo Apocalypse events will be themed around doctors, steam punk, scientists and dictators and feature similar costume and discount requirements.

The full line-up for November 11^th is:

Kunt + The Gang
"Men with Beards (What are they hiding?)" tour autumn 2008
http://www.myspace.com/kuntandthegang
Basildon's dynamic duo Kunt + Little Kunt present the final opus from his grotty sexploitation opera the "Wank and Cry" trilogy.
"A one man filth machine" - Bizarre magazine
"Like early 80s-era Depeche Mode trying to be prosecuted under obscenity laws" - The Guardian

Sleaford Mods
http://www.myspace.com/sleafordmods
J. Williamson's angry young man rant on the dark side of life in the East Midlands, fast women, drugs and blagging extra toast in the caff.  As featured on BBC Radio 6 Tom Robinson show.

Hypnotique
http://www.myspace.com/misshypnotique
Soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse from Nottingham's own Miss Hypnotique - songs about infanticide, genocide and allotments featuring the lucid tones of the THEREMIN. As seen on Channel 4's "The New Paul O'Grady Show".

James Hately

Edinburgh Fringe Festival comic presents his animal-shaving monologue "stubble busting".
http://www.myspace.com/jameshately

EssexPubOrgy
Musical mischief, stuff and nonsense that shouldn't be shaved in the Market Square.
http://www.myspace.com/essexpuborgy1

Tuesday November 11^th 2008

8- midnight (bands from 8.30pm)

Chameleon Café
Angel Row
Nottingham (above  to Clinton Cards)
Tickets £5 on door, £4 NUS/ World War II veterans/ Men With Beards
8pm - midnight Bands: 8.30pm

See Cococo Apocalypse website: www.myspace.com/cococoapocalypso

Join this event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=30771344274


For press enquiries about Cococo Apocalypse contact: Susi email: info@hypnotique.net, tel: 07981 222799