GARGANTUA at SVA Site Festival, Stroud

Photograph by Rebecca Vaughan

GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends

plays at SVA Festival, Stroud, May 25th 2013 at 8pm. Info HERE.

GARGANTUA review in Mersey Blogs

Nice little review of GARGANTUA by Peter Guy on Mersey Blogs, part of a longer review about the magnificent UpItUp 10th Birthday weekender...

Photograph by Martha Moopette.

"Ergo Phizmiz and The Wyrding Module topped a bill that brought nigh-on incomparable music and theatre to Liverpool's Mello Mello....This preceded Ergo Phizmiz's Gargantua - a genuinely unique stage-show full of toilet humour, gigantic papier-mâché heads, sliced up gramophone recordings and disturbing religious imagery.

As impossible as it was to follow the spiralling, convoluted plot, the visual imagery, wordplay and music all made for an other worldly experience the likes of which only Phizmiz could conjure."

Read the full article here.

Field Recordings from GARGANTUA Tour by The Travelling Mongoose

Unedited, unprocessed field recordings by The Travelling Mongoose, from the UK tour of Ergo Phizmiz's Excessive Entertainment "GARGANTUA".

GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment - REMIXES out now on the Free Music Archive

Cover montage by Simon Mathewson

Satisfied customers....

After a long and magical journey about the country, here we are now back at home in Bridport. And just look at some of the lovely things you kind folks have said about our GARGANTUA.....

"Just saw the excellent @ergophizmiz perform "Gargantua".A mystery play about Pontiffs, Pan and Opium smoking meta detectives...Marvellous!"

"Gargantua was a triumph last nite, but now everything seems ordinary in comparison.Thanks for mangling my brain Ergo!"

"i haven't laughed in ecstatic bewilderment like that ever before - and it turned on a knife-edge to deeply moving and powerful imagery, which is rare and extremely hard to pull off."

"@ergophizmiz Gargantua seared my eyeballs and made my pants implode with its grotesque beauty at the Cube last night - thanks Ergo!"

"Gargantua by @ergophizmiz was WONDERFUL last night @CUBECINEMA - touring onwards- TRACK THEM DOWN!"

"That was excellent, was like watching a Christian mystery play, written by David Lynch and performed by Reeves and Mortimer!"

"So, I went to ERGO PHIZMIZ presents GARGANTUA - AN EXCESSIVE ENTERTAINMENT! tonight. I can't even tell you what I just watched, other than it was brilliant, weird, odd, bizarre and left me feeling very confused. But, all in a good way."

"Grand show in Dartington, we loved it; nutty!"

"Bloody brilliant. Utterly, bizarrely, brilliant! Thanks for a very random, confusing, Monday night :0) x"

"Was well enjoyed on our table. Thanks and hope to see you guys soon"

"Amazing and Brilliant show last nite: GARGANTUA. Wonderfully original. Keep hassling the Arts Council- we want more!!"

"Absolutely blown away by the magnificent intensity of @ergophizmiz’s #Gargantua tonight, well done one & all :))"

"Version of GARGANTUA I dreamt about last night fucking marvellous well done @ergophizmiz"

"Loved Gargantua last night in Berwick. Madness and several cohesive story lines. Great collage novella too. Lovely miming."

"Bravo GARGANTUA! Children roasting on an open fire. step, kick, step, kick, shimmmmy. an MB Games advert directed by Victor Neuberg"

"Great, surreal stuff from @ergophizmiz at @MelloMelloCafe for @UpitUp's 10th anniversary bash."

"@ergophizmiz WAS ART!!!!!!!!!"

"Just had our tiny minds blown by the brilliance of @ergophizmiz's Gargantua. Well done chaps, great stuff xx"

"Went to see Gargantua @ergophizmiz at the cube last night, was amazing! Loved it!"

Photographs of GARGANTUA by Rebecca Vaughan

Rebecca Vaughan kindly popped in and took these rather tasty photos of GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends. Many thanks. Delicious.

Crowdfunding for GARGANTUA hops over £500

The last minute super-duper emergency Crowdfunding plan for GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment by Ergo Phizmiz, has just exceeded £500. 

Huge, huge thanks to all contributors. You've all been e-mailed..and surprises and treats will be showered upon you soon.

You are absolute utter marvels and I love each and every one of you big slurps and sloppy kisses. One day may we drink Vodka Martinis together in the French Riviera, like characters from an espionage film.

For those who'd still like to contribute (and it's still very, very welcome as pretty much every member of the cast is fucking broke and, you know, I'd like to pay these remarkable artists as much as I can, and at the moment I'm not in a position to pay them anything, but most of our basic costs are now covered), you can do so by going here.

People who follow my Twitter will be relieved to know I won't be posting about this Crowdfunding quite as much now, but I might pop in a few sneaky ones.

I offer you all big naughty bowls of love and soup.

Ergo.

My generously nostrilled self as The Virgin Mary in "Gargantua".

Any little fish can swim,
any little bird can fly,
any little dog, or any little cat,
can do a bit of this, or just a bit of that,
any little horse can neigh,
and any little cow can moo,
but I can't do anything at all but just love you.
(Noel Coward)

GARGANTUA Trailer 6 - A Midwife Roasting Chestnuts

GARGANTUA Podcast 1 : SHIT

The first in a series of podcasts about the making of GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment. Featuring Flora Cavalino Bertolli, Martha Moopette, Simon Mathewson, Aunty Georgia, and Ergo Phizmiz. Edited & Produced by Simon Mathewson.

GARGANTUA last ditch Crowdfunding

Please help support GARGANTUA by paying £2 or what you want for THE PETE WATERMAN RAP single, or donating via Paypal.

And you want extra treats? Well...

Contributions of £10 or over receive a copy of The Keystone Cut Ups DVD.

Contributions of £20 or over receive a original Ergo Phizmiz collage from the 2012 "Families, Intimate Situations, Opium Architecture and the Behemoth" exhibition.

Contributions of £50 or over receive both the above delicious trinkets of dreams.

Contributions of £100 or over receive an Ergo Phizmiz cover version of any song you would like.

Contributions of £1000 or over receive an Ergo Phizmiz cover version of any album you would like.

You can buy the single, for any amount you want, after the below image....

Out now! A digital single of two tracks from Ergo Phizmiz's excessive entertainment GARGANTUA.

Two new GARGANTUA Remixes

Two marvellous new remixes of GARGANTUA.

Some Weird Characters Were Hanging Around Town Yesterday...

A bit of a rest 

Click READ MORE below to see all of the other beautiful photos...

Meet Our New Beautiful Bouncing Baby Boy...

...King Gargantua.

Isn't he just the most beautiful baby you've ever seen?

Made with the skills of Michael Wade, Martha Moopette & Georgia Phoebe

Ergo Phizmiz Begs for Money. Always a stylish way to live.

Having checked his bank balance yesterday and started thoroughly worrying, here is a last ditch attempt at a spot of Crowdfunding.



 
You can support GARGANTUA by paying £2 or whatever you want for The Pete Waterman Rap via Bandcamp HERE.

And see that big DONATE button to your right? You can sign into your Paypal account and help fund this show there.

Please, please help spread the word. You are a genius, a legend, a scholar, and very sexy to boot. Thankyou.

GARGANTUA Trailer 5

GARGANTUA on Late Junction, BBC Radio 3

The splendid folks at Late Junction, BBC Radio 3, broadcast a specially created 8 minute montage of Ergo Phizmiz's excessive entertainment GARGANTUA, and thoroughly pimped the tour in the process. Tip of hat.

Hear the programme on BBC iPlayer HERE.

GARGANTUA Trailer 4

Out now! Digital single "The Pete Waterman Rap" / "The Sea is Full of Sheep" - Two songs from GARGANTUA

Out now! A digital single of two tracks from Ergo Phizmiz's excessive entertainment GARGANTUA.

GARGANTUA on Late Junction, BBC Radio 3

Tune in to Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, on Wednesday 27th February, to hear an exclusive eight minute collage of original music from GARGANTUA.