Yes, I have done it. I have run away to the circus, a realm of wonder, harsh reality, and colorful characters, vividly described by a remarkable writer who pulls off her own high-wire act with honesty and abandon, moving from loss to delight. In The Electric Woman, Tessa Fontaine is an escape artist determined to detonate the grim reality of mere existence, taking us on the most original journey I can remember in a recent memoir. As she moves through guises and adventures, she learns how to become the woman her mother loves and the person she didn’t think she could be: her own marvelous self.” Marvellous . . . [Fontaine's] account of her coming-of-age summer on the road is filled with small miracles." — BBC Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961: W > W.A.S.P." Sisältää hitin / Timo Pennanen . Retrieved October 16, 2019. They will be opening its doors Saturday November 18th at 11am at 203 Deptford High Street SE8 3NT and be open every day until December 24th included. A fascinating behind-the-scenes peek at carnival life, and an ode to unconditional love." —Erin Kodicek, Omnivoracious

Turns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:

The bandage covering her head poofed out over the opened area because her brain was so swollen, because the bleeding would not stop. It looked like a piece of popcorn that had begun bursting from its kernel. Her head was shaved. Chronicles of Fontaine’s frequently strange experiences with the carnival are interspersed with poignant reflections on the bonds shared by mother and daughter." — San Francisco Chronicle The Electric Circus was a regular feature on ‘So It Goes’, Tony Wilson’s half hour television programme, showing live performances from a number of punk bands, giving them much needed exposure and helped to recruit new converts on a weekly basis. All South London vinyl heads should head to Deptford this weekend for the opening of Upside Down Records. Listen on IHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-the-electric-circus-the-ar-31040246/?cmp=android_share&sc=android_social_share&pr=false&fbclid=IwAR2u9bxBXiD1iKEryiABZk1xZGa9n7bKE20mIRDz-7_k_6-tkPrFrqwXiWU

Enowatch pt.48271 – I’ve been fair obsessed with all things Eno of late, not least because the recent Gary Hustwit and Brendan Dawes AV piece, ‘Nothing Can Ever Be The Same’, premiered at the Venice Biennale last week. This 168 hour installation takes Eno’s video and music archive and uses it as material to feed the generative engines they’ve built whilst also serving as a kind of trailer for Hustwit’s ‘Eno’ film due next year. See examples of it below.

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After her mother suffered a terrible stroke, leaving her severely incapacitated, the author ran off to join the circus, where she ate fire, handled a boa constrictor and even swallowed swords. Fontaine braids these experiences, of losing her mother and performing in a sideshow, into an elegant narrative." — Watertown Daily Times An assured debut that doesn’t shy away from the task of holding the ordinary and otherworldly in its hand, at once. It’s herein that the book’s power lies . . . Throughout this narrative is the story of [Fontaine's] relationship with her mother, a story that is sometimes its own hard-to-watch sideshow act. Fontaine is unafraid to write the ugliness — the imperfect care and love — that takes place between people, and the memoir is most 'electric' when it doesn’t shy from that imperfection . . ." —Rachel Khong, The New York Times Book Review

A bad night for Roman, but his made-up-on-the-spot novel, The Electric Circus by Timothy Lipton sounds plausibly like a fine read. A spin-off, perhaps? We are proud to present to you our spoiler-filled review of Spider-Man: Now way Home. Join us for the discussion and comment on what you thought about the movie too. This is the story of a daughter and her mother. It’s also a memoir, a love story, and a tale of high-flying stunts. It recounts an adventure toward and through fear as Tessa Fontaine performs as an escape artist, fire-eater, and snake charmer with the World of Wonders, a traveling sideshow." — Southern Living An induced coma reduces the rate of cerebral blood flow. After her blood slowed, they hauled out the chain saw. I do not know if they actually used a chain saw. Probably not. But it had to have been a big saw to cut away half of a human skull. I remember two things about the electric circus from my one visit in 1969. One was the fact that the walls were not at a right angle to the floor, which combined with the strobe lights and swirling crowd, made for a delightfully disorienting experience. The other was a dark room off to the side where couples — or even strangers I suppose — could sit and smooch. In addition to all kinds of nooks and crannies for this purpose there was a rotating upholstered carousel in the middle of the room, divided into sections, one per couple.”— AnonymousThen in 1966 artist Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey– who directed many of Warhol's films, and who became a sometime manager of the Velvet Underground – sublet the ballroom from Cassen and Stern, and turned the Dom into a nightclub. The Velvet Underground was the house band, and their performances under Andy Warhol's influence were accompanied by many light effects with the added touches of projected movies and projected photographs, all going on at the same time. The experience was called the " Exploding Plastic Inevitable."

From the start, there is much discreet eye-rolling and sighing, not least from Logan himself, at what he regards as the insufferableness of the Pierces: their Latin mottoes, the drink they serve, “based on a recipe stolen from the wallet of Teddy Roosevelt’s valet”, their quoting Shakespeare in lieu of grace. It’s hard not sympathise – these are the grandest of liberal grandees. The pressure tells. Shiv makes a gaffe when she jokes about Mark’s PhD saving him 12 seconds on Wikipedia. Conrad immediately gets into political fight with Maxim. As the Roys retreat before dinner, Logan tears into them like Sir Alex Ferguson at half-time, with Shiv getting a particularly heavy blast of the hairdryer treatment. Some tactical rejigging; Kendall will now be “marking” Naomi. ‘Dad, just tell them it’s going to be me’ W.A.S.P. Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on January 29, 2014 . Retrieved October 29, 2012. Vivid and hallucinatory, joyful and disturbing—one of the most creative memoirs I’ve encountered." —Susannah Cahalan, The New York Post

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There must have been some kind of happening that night because the streets were full of people. People were hanging all over the stairs leading up to the Circus. And, you didn’t have to pay. We just walked in. I still remember it emotionally. Later in 1966 the club, under different management by Albert Grossman, was briefly called the Balloon Farm and in 1967 the lease was transferred to Brandt Freeman Int'l, Ltd. the General partner of The Electric Circus Company. Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys was engaged as one of the first house bands under the new management. [5]