Circulus
Published 12th Jul 2006 by Chris Challis

Imagine what it would be like if you were to accidentally slip into a medieval future when you thought it was 1972. Welcome to the sunny, funny world of CIRCULUS, who describe their particular brand of sound as ?a gentle fist-fight between a group of under nourished sixteenth century court musicians and an acid soaked bunch of hippie rockers from the early seventies.? Join them as they play Komedia on Friday 28 July, and see that the highlife really is medieval life.

Complete with tights, woolen dresses and circles of fire, CIRCULUS are an acid folk/progressive rock band from South London. Put together by vocalist and songwriter Michael Tyack, they use a mix of modern and medieval instruments. Their new album, The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope Yet To Be Sent, features songs that cover a multitude of topics from the burning of scarecrows to the band?s strong belief that fairies and pixies exist, as seen in the rousing closing track Power to the Pixies.

?The mystical mash-up of a lute, a Moog and various Arabic sounding woodwind instruments is a bit like beef ice-cream: unusual, but somehow right.? Playlouder.com

As comfortable playing next to morris dancers in olde-worlde village fetes as they are playing hip warehouse parties in London, the band resound with a mixture of folk-revivalist finesse and an unquestionable ?cool? that comes with being so distant from any other musical style out there. With anything between five to eleven members on stage at any one time ? one of which donned in horse?s head mask ? CIRCULUS promise to take us on a journey through time from which, they promise, there is no return.

CIRCULUS visit Komedia on Friday 28 July at 9pm. Tickets are ?8 in advance, ?10 on the door and are available without a booking fee on-line at www.komedia.co.uk/brighton or from the Box Office on 01273 647100.

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