Prepare yourself for a mind-expanding night of live music and immersive audio-visual performance as Brighton’s own electronic music collective Renude19 presents the world premiere reimagining of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.
This powerful one-off show breathes new life into Ginsberg’s countercultural masterpiece, created with a full live reading by Ashley Slater (of Freakpower fame) and a genre-blending electronic music soundtrack produced by Ash Huntington with lead vocals from Christabel Cossins. Set inside TOM’s unique In The Box setting, you’ll be surrounded by four walls of visuals created by world-renowned VJ and creative director Bob Jaroc (known for his work with Fatboy Slim, Dua Lipa, and Pete Tong).
This reimagining carries you through a sonically charged journey. Renude19’s rich, genre-blending soundtrack evolves from dark synthwave, through electronica, to house and acid techno-influenced sounds, perfectly amplifying the raw emotion of Ginsberg’s words.
Warning, tickets are limited so snap them up asap!
I caught up with Ashley Slater to chat to him in advance of the performance, of the counterculture masterpiece HOWL.
KK
As part of Renewed 19, you’ve developed this fascinating piece of work and showing for one night at Brighton’s The Old Market based around the counterculture of what I consider to be a masterpiece howl by Allen. Ginsburg, you’re the voice of Ginsburg, I understand.
AS
Yeah. I’m Alan Skin Burger. Yeah.
KK
I like that. So how did this come about? Tell me more.
AS
Well, Ash and I used to hang back in the day. I probably moved out of Brighton about 15 years ago and then moved along the coast to Seaford. Cause it was cheaper. But a few years ago I did a performance of beat poetry and beat writing at the Pompidou Center with a fabulous pianist called Benoit Delbeq, and another guy who did like improvised electronics and stuff like that. It was really heavy but really annoying that the rehearsal was brilliant and the gig was OK. I hate that it’s supposed to be the other. But apparently. The Ginsburg people were in the audience, which I had no idea about.
KK
Wow.
