Next week sees the start of Fierce Festival, an annual festival of live art over six days in Birmingham. Action Hero, a live performance art duo from Bristol, will be performing their work, Frontman at the festival on Thursday 24th March. The Fierce Festival website describes Frontman as follows:

“In a half-cut lament for a faded fantasy, your Frontman performs a defiant, brazen, raucous reproduction of lip syncs and all night gigs through a fog of dry-ice and furious noise.

Backed by an analogue synth and a tambourine, the frontman transmits hazy replicas of rhetoric, love and noise. She re-masters, re-works and re-releases her back catalogue with vacant gaze, drifting off into an endless reverie of b-sides and noisy echoes that could replay all night…”

Here are some audio clips from a performance of Frontman with some accompanying photo images:

Frontman was first performed in 2010 at the Inbetween Time festival in Bristol and is one part of a trilogy of works focusing on the cult of “the hero” in different ways. The other two works in the trilogy are A Western which considers the visual language of Westerns and Watch Me Fall which examines the concept of daredevils such as Evel Knievel. Below is an after show interview with Action Hero about Watch Me Fall which includes some footage from the show:

Daily Podcast Sat_7th Pt.2 from Wunderbar Festival on Vimeo.

For further details about Action Hero’s performance next week at Fierce Festival, visit: http://www.wearefierce.org/fierce-festival/whats-on/frontman-action-hero

For more information about Action Hero on this site, visit: Hero, Action – Info

To see more of Action Hero’s work and keep up to date with their events, please visit: www.actionhero.org.uk

Fierce Festival runs from 22nd March to 27th March. For details about the festival, visit: www.wearefierce.org