ISSUE #4

jonathon
markwoods
hoo-har
conspiracy
Award winning actor and
musician Jonathan Markwood
takes his internationally
acclaimed songs to the stage with his
band Jonathan Markwood’s Hoo-Hah
Conspiracy. Jonathan is making a big
noise on the Midlands music scene,
and bringing songs from his successful
London theatre show ’The Hoo-Hah
Conspiracy Secret Cabaret’ to
audiences around the country.
Described as 'Rocky Horror meets the
Mighty Boosh’, the show’s story and
character based songs invite the
listener to follow the lives, loves and
outrageous fortunes of an eccentric
coterie of characters including
lovelorn 'Chelsea Stacey', the largely
unlovable ‘Minnesota’, weapon
wielding avenger 'Catapult Kevin’ and
superannuated serial killer ‘Pamela’.
Jonathan is a multiple song and album
award winner at successive JPF World
Music Awards in the US (ofcially the
world’s biggest ever music awards
event), and now has four albums'
worth of material under his belt.
Jonathan’s music is a diverse melange
of styles from pop to rock via rhythm
and blues, ska, funk, rockabilly and
jazz, with comparisons to Bowie via
Blur, Chic, Talking Heads, Pixies and a
touch of Edward Lear. Quirky,
whimsical, blackly humorous,
occasionally lurid, Jonathan himself
describes his songs as ‘like Gerald
Scarfe illustrations set to music’. Fans
attending a gig may nd the biggest
dilemma is whether to listen with rapt
attention to the narrative tales, or
dance with abandon to the spine
tingling music.'
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