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Music Video's and Adverts
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Archaos were often approached by various agencies who wanted to use the tent and performers as back drops for music videos and advertising campaigns. One such was a shoot whilst in London 1990 for a... |
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"Game Over" Brixton Academy 1st June 1996
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Recorded excerpts of Archaos Circus "Game Over" tour at Brixton Academy, June 1st 1996. Length 40 minutes.I´d turned up at the venue out of the blue, hoping Pierrot Bidon would remember me from a few ... |
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Bared All Glasgow
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The Glasgow morning was a bleak and hazy one. The night previous had seen a local Glaswegian throwing bottles at us until he realised that we were foreigners. He then turned on good old Scottish ho... |
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Bath Rd - Bristol
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The site is now a park and ride but in 1991 I was lucky enough to spend some time with Archaos, building them a trike from an old reliant chassis and the front end of a honda. The 5ft handlebars wer... |
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Demontage -Bouinax
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Ar chaos french circus over thirty years ago unseen footage at Glasgow green filmed by JOHN BISLAND copy righted materia |
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Fosbury Flop
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The bar was a creation of the creative chef, Eddie. He had a great idea, he could supplement his income by selling drinks to the workers over dinner. It was a good plan the workers we... |
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JJ Waller - New Photo's Part 2
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My short but intense time with Archaos (Manchester Dublin London Paris) was and has been full of significance to me in so many directions. As far as photography, my trade today it was really th... |
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Last Show on Earth 1989
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Photo taken during the show of Nordine and Jean-Pierre examining Manu the contortionist. I believe the location was Fulham's Eelbrook Common in London SW6, a former plague burial ground. |
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Last Show on Earth 1989
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I was so taken by the spirit of this show I stayed afterwards and drank a bottle of Jack Daniels with some of the performers. Little did I realise how the legendary these people would become. |
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loved and lost
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great to find this site.. emotions run high just now seeing faces of loved ones gone, but also great to see many friends still vibrantly alive! will dig out and upload some pics soon from late 90s in ... |
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Metal Clown Battersea
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I joined in Manchester. Then came back to London to have more fun at Wembley and Battersea. Still the best time of my life |
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Peage
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The convoy snaked its way across the countryside from Marseille to Copenhagen the thirty odd assortment of vehicles stung out with the fastest shooting across the continent at break - neck speed . I ... |
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Pierrot Interview in Copenhagen July 1991
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Circus Archaos creator and director Pierrot Bidon interviewed by independent Danish TV crew in Copenhagen, July 1991. This during final rehearsals before the opening night of Metal Clown. |
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PIERROT LE FOU BIDON
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April 2014Uploaded to Youtube this short film by 'Fanafood'tells the story of Archaos in Pierrot's own words.Easily the most beautiful and lovingly crafted film on the site.Enjoy.. Published ... |
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Rich and the Security Team
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Well,I wasn't actually part of the 'security',just a mate visiting on weekends and holidays during the summer of 1991 but to make them seem more professional I was introduced as another member of the ... |
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Serious Play - A book
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The book Serious Play by Lousie Peacock makes many mentions of Archaos Circus and contains the legendery phase.... 'Examples of transgressively violent clowning can be foun... |
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Sue. Cologne Cloud Swing
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If memory serves me correctly, this is where Larissa joined us and began to work with me on my Cloud Swing. It is also where I accidentally glugged two mouthfuls of paraffin from a can that was se... |
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Bouinax/Compilation
In 1990, Archaos rehearsed and opened a new show with a troupe of sixty, driven by French indie guitar band The Chihuahuas. Called Bouinax, Archaos slang for bodger, the show opened at La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris....
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Bologna New Year's Eve 1990/1991
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Strange and eventful gig where Archaos supported a famous Italian singer for a New Year’s Eve party.We almost didn’t get into the country. We where pulled at the boarder because Pierrot’s previous vi... |
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Bouinax - full show
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So what would you do?It's the summer of 1991 and your mates who're working as 'security' with Circus Archaos all around the country are in your home town.And you have a week off work for your birthday... |
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Bouinax in Love
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This wonderful film was made in 1989 and features many of the Archaos family looking young and beautiful. The film was comissioned produced by Archaos Image and La Sept. and we are grateful to the... |
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Compilation
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Towards the end of 1990 Archaos had two shows touring the UK. The Last Show on Earth and Bouinax. The two companies came togethor for two weeks on Clapham Common to perform in Compilation. It ... |
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Compilation Film
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A short film of parts of the Compilation show on Clapham Common when Bouinax and Last Show on Earth came togethor for 2 weeks. |
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Glastonbury 1990
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In June 1990 Archaos became the only 'act' to headline the pyramid stage at Glastonbury on every night of the festival (Fri/Sat/Sun) The show featured the Bouinax crew and performers in a show which ... |
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Sue Brent La Villete
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Pax and I used to sleep under the Gradins in La Villette. Don't ask me why! We both had injuries and I had to return to England for an operation to my hand. Pax had badly hurt his leg. We gave each ... |
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The Box Office Team
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This photo was taken in Manchester at the start f the British leg of the Bouinax tour. The buses were specially painted for the tour by artists Kitty and Suzanna in a field near Brighton. They housed... |
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BX-91
In 1991 Archaos returned with BX-91 a revamped Bouinax show with new performers and stories: the show premiered in Ales.
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A Wedding
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August 1991 – Edinburgh Archaos played to sell out houses during the festival and there was a wedding. Pete ‘Boom Boom’ Mountain the companies Pyrotechnics fixer, performer and general madman marr... |
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Ian Smith remembers Koln.....
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Low in Cologne Do you remember the moment they drained the very, very last drop of resilience and energy from your heart. The moment you sank? In the cont... |
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Jerusalem
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BX-91 played the Jerusalem festival in 1991. The company stayed in a very flash 4 star hotel - the show went down a storm. The only change to the show was the siren from the finale had to be cut a... |
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Memories of BX-91 Koln
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This picture of the BX-91 was taken in Cologne at the beginning of the tour. The site was on the edge of town in the middle of an industrial estate, the PR and publicity wasn’t up to much... |
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New York leg of BX-91 cancelled
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Click the link to read the New York Times artical announcing that Archaos's BX-91 tour of New York had been cancelled (1991) Share this pin and add your own memories on the comments section. ... |
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Serge, Cologne, a very long day off
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Archaos lunch starter, drunk rehearsal TV show (the pic), national TV crazy show, Night party, and....Alchool police control and end of the night to the police german station....my driving license rem... |
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Serge, Marc and Pasqualito
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Press from Edimburgh Festival Fish & Chips, the "Bar-Chaos" long nights, Sean Connery, Pete weeding, Jason smash his guitar trough window, Sue clash, crazy personal groupies, etc... |
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The Fish Car
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Cars played a huge role in all the shows. The fish car used to appear during the Finale of Bouinax. It was a right royal pain to get in and out of. At the end of the Bouinax run of 1991 iit was le... |
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Toronto - The Bouinax Finale.....
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In Europe , the motley crew lived in a ramshackle collection of customised caravans, tents, trucks and buses. For the Toronto pitch, an identical fleet of mobile homes was laid on as ac... |
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Metal Clown
Metal clown had as a theme the discovery of Brazil, street life and domestic violence mixed in with the usual Archaos formula of shock, chaos and the contrast between love and violence.....
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Cathedral tent in Copenhagen
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The tent for the metal Clown tour in Copenhagen If you enjoyed this story please share it onto Facebook and other soical media using the SHARE button |
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Dublin
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Words are not needed to explain this picture. As Gavin said on Facebook... ''Do you all know that the site we set up on was actually a mass grave from the plague (Black death)? about 15... |
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Metal Clown Battersea
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I seem to remember alot of upset from all sorts of authorities for projecting gobos onto the side of the power station..they'd've been even more upset if they'd come to one of our parties, destruction... |
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Metal Clown: - l'invasion - Cine Film
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Extraits du premier tableau du show Metal Clown: "l'invasion" - mise en scène Pierrot Bidon - Paris 1991Cuts of the first tableau: "l'invasion" from Metal Clown's show- directed by Pierrot Bidon - Pa... |
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My Clown has got no nose....
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Have you ever heard the urban Archaos myth about how a clown had his nose cut off with a chainsaw? The 'full' story is in the 2010 BBC Radio documentary which you can find on the pres... |
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Pierrot Bidon
Pierrot worked with many Circuses around the world, these pins showcase some of them, if you can add to them please contact us through the site.
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Circus of Horrors
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On a journey though all four of the Circus of Horrors incarnations. B eginning in a French Asylum the inmates are liberated and become the performers in the show. The lunatics ... |
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CREATION MONDIALE
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Le cirque raconté par les Studios de Cirque de Marseille dans l'espace du théatre Toursky à Marseille... |
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Interview with Pierrot
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Interview with Pierrot conducted by Alejandra Rosencof in the mid 1990's. The sound needs cleaning up - if anyone has the expertise could they down load it from soundcloud and then repost it up an... |
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La Fete De Pierrot - March 2013
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Hello everybody Firstly, for those who don’t know me, my name’s Ana – Ana Bidon. I’m the widow of Pierrot Bidon, the great artistic director of contemporary circus. ... |
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La Roue de la Mort " La Trilogie du Temps "
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Les studios de Cirque" présente: " La Trilogie du Temps" mis en scène par Pierrot Bidon - Festival Zwarte Cross (Hollande 2010) Le Passé: "Les Prisonniers du Temps" - Le Présent: "La Course contre le ... |
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Pierrot and U2
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After the demise of Archaos Pierrot reportedly did some work with U2 - although it has been said that he met with them and they just stole all his ideas. This magazine article from Uruguay might expla... |
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Pierrot Fest - March 2013
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. In March 2013 hundreds of members of Pierrots Circus family arrived in Arles in the South of France to celebrate the life and the friendship of Pierrot Bidon. Organized by Ana and the new Entro... |
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PLACE DES ANGES - Madrid
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Spectacle de cirque aérien - Une tonne de plumes - Tyroliennes et feux d'artifice de plumes au dessus de la Plaza de Oriente Madrid (Espagne) - Musique Hughes de Courson - Contact: studiosdemarseille... |
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Borkowski and the Press
The publicity and press generated by Archaos and Mark Borkowski played a huge role in Archaos's success. The purple pins will reveal the press stoires which take two forms - firstly stories generated by a good yarn, a great tale, a strange story, a bit of salacious gossip, a secret confidence, an odd anecdote or an outlandish rumour secondly more traditional stories of sex and chainsaws and reviews...........
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Banned in Bristol!!!
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After the storm of stories from Glasgow....... The Bristol 'Elders and Council' get nervous and withdraw the license for Archaos to play...more press.....The French Culture minister steps in....... |
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BBC Radio 4 - September 2010
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To coincide with the 20th anniversary exhibition organised by Ex Archaos members BBC Radio 4 aired a half hour radio documentary looking back at the Archaos Story: Cha... |
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Car in Half!
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Archaos split a car in two on the Royal Mile. A journalist nearly gave birth in shock. There are still gouges in the road if you look. In 1987, a wild-haired French gypsy called Pierrot Bidon turn... |
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INJURIES
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A recurring theme in Archaos's relationship with the press were the frequent ly reported mishaps and accidents that left perfomers injured. |
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Kidnap!
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The 1991 Edinburgh festival, society and sub-urban madam Cynthia Payne is in town to host a one woman show all about the goings on at her Croydon brothel. Her show would generate pu... |
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The Origins of a BAN
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Glasgow 1990 the press for the Bouinax show features much talk of 'topless women' 'sex' and 'violence' .....very angry people start a petition...which generates even more press... The show does... |
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What a way to beat the traffic......
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Audience needed! The answer was to stage a Barnumesque guerrilla stunt! A car is driven across Albert Bridge in London on two wheels for the pleasure of TV cameras and the gathered media. Who needs... |
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Zanouk
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Archaos's Iraqi strongman, Zanouk al Habib, made the front pages of the papers because "his conscience had told him to fight for Iraq in the first Gulf War" instead of appearing in the Festival show ... |
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The Archaos Family of Artists, Technicals, Clowns and Chefs
Pierrot worked with and influenced many people. This Layer of the map is dedicated to them. If you worked with Archaos or any of Pierrot's Shows heres the place where you can tell your story about what you did and how your life and work has been affected by the experience. Also use the space to shamelessly plug your current work as you never know who want to employ an ex Archaos clown!
Many of the Archaos Family have sadly passed away if you know of someone who is missing from the Map please please tell their story for them and us.
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"The Haggazoid Flying Company"
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Memories ... went down to Ales and half joined Archaos, as a result of not having a completed flying act. We were rehearsing without miki, until Anna smacked her haed into the rig pole and then deci... |
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Cyrille AKA 'Dogman'
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Can you write Cyrille's Archaos story? Email it to mischae@hotmail.com Cyrille is now.....click the link for more details..... Company Jade Monkey Standing Duviquet, actress, dir... |
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Adrian Evans
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Adrian is the man responsible for bringing Pierrot and Archaos over to the UK . You can read his story elsewhere on the site – click HERE Adrian together with P... |
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Amar
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Lovely Amar worked on Bouinax, Compilation, BX-91 and Metal Clown started off life as a port suite lighting operator but it didn’t take him long to make it onto the piste where he shone. A natural and... |
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Antonia
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Antonia joined Archaos straight from the Groucho Club in London, her star potential, persuasive skills and ability to pour a good cocktail was spotted and she was whisked away to help run the com... |
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Bensalma
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The Bensalma trio hand to hand acrobats from Morocco. Traditional circus number performed on the top of the monster truck in the Metal Clown show. - Anyone have any idea where they are now? |
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Boris Arquier
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Metal Clown and Bouinax whose talents are enormous. After Archaos he went on to work with Cirque Gosh and worked extensively with Micheal Dallier. He now has a one man solo show and lives near Ales |
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Chris 'The Cockroach'
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Meeting in Spain After a winter in a dilapidated Portuguese village, Hugo and I struck on a plan to make some cash , we stocked up on trinkets to sell on the street. After days on the Ramblers ... |
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Christian Charrasse
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France he has now hung up his vegetables and grape vines for a reincarnation as some kind of lunatic. Please add your memories to this pin in the comments box. ... |
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Christophe
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Christophe the super cool Bouinax in florescent Las Vegas style head gear! A great Bouinax Christophe worked on the Bouinax, Compilation, and BX-91 Tours. One of his Bouinax j... |
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Colin
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Colin Joined during the gig in Glastonbury in 1990. His rather cained rock and roll appearance seemed appropriate for the show and he soon learnt the art of rigging and detonating fireworks from Pete ... |
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Continuation of hugh story
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link to first part of this story To cut a long story short we made it, passing my mothers house just in time for kisses and Sunday lunch, arriving at the park in Manchester before they closed the... |
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Coralie
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Coralie took me for a climb on the roof of the tent one day here, we watched the show down through the poles, relaxed in the sun, had a chat..best view ever, she knew I was scared of heights so found... |
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Crazy Brilliant and the Chihuahuas
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I saw Circus Archaos + Chihuahua on the Bouinax tour in Glasgow in August 1990. Chainsaw juggling, cars cut in two, flames when least expected and great music. Suited Glasgow to a T. Memorable and muc... |
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Didier Andre & Fabian Alberola
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Club passing duo Didier Andre & Fabian Alberola featured in Last Show on Earth and Compliation. http://juggling.tv/11632 Please email us and tell us where they are now? Or if you are Did... |
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Dirk
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Can your write Dirks story? Email mischae@hotmail.com |
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Dominique Margot
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Dominique the lighting queen Dominique acted as Eric's erstwhile assistant ensuring the shows lighting ran smoothly they worked togethor concieving the lighting for each part of the show which as m... |
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Eddie
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Who knew where Eddie Keane’s career choice would take him? These days, he is a respectable restaurateur in Miltown Malbay, where he runs The Bakehouse Restaurant with his partner, Irene. His days of ... |
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Electric Eric
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. Electric Eric – what a brilliant nick name! The much loved Archaos lighting expert and Bouinax on Bouinax, Compilation, and BX-91. Lighting played a key role in the Archaos shows;... |
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Eric 'Rico' Gaurdry
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Rico was an incredible performer - his seriously deranged chainsaw beheading routine or his audience stooge set up with Natalie and her fish were dangerous and quite breath taking. Rico is one of a nu... |
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Franc Peret
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Franc is a French Photographer who in the late 1980's at the beginning of his career captured some great images of Archaos performing Bouinax. In his words.. ' t was one of the very first Archaos ... |
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Gavin Thunderdog lives here ;~)
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Gavin Griffiths. Guitarist for the Thunderdogs, The Archaos House Band for The Metal Clown tour '91-'92. Is Now living Just outside Bath in the UK, Composing music for TV, Film, and Radio.... and occa... |
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Gemma Cooper
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Gemma toured with Last Show on Earth, Compilation and BX-91. She joined Archaos as a beautiful and freshfaced young English rose; after three years on the road she had matured into a lobster wiel... |
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Hugo
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How I joined the circus Me and Chris were stuck in Barcelona. The plan was to get to Switzerland and work in a Pasta factory, work we had been promised over the phone in Portugal. What we di... |
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Ian Smith - Ring Master
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UK crew awaited the arrival of the ‘real’ Archaos contingent in their trucks with some excitement. It was dusk at Platt’s Field Manchester when they roared up, and first impressions was one o... |
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Jane Pitt
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Jane Pitt – Box office manager and dispenser of advice and tea. When Archaos returned to the UK for the Bouinax tour the box office element was upgraded and Jane Pitt recruited to head up operations... |
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Jason
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Jason joined the Last Show on Earth (LSOE) as one of the first of the British members of the Troupe. A quite brilliant performer he was perhaps the only member of Archaos to perform in every show we a... |
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Jean-Claude Grenier
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Jean-Claude perfomed with Archaos in the compilation show on Clapham Common (1990) Watch this very beautiful film entitled 'La Longueur et la Largeur du Ciel' filmed 6 months before Jean-Claude pas... |
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JJ Waller
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Wonderful opening video edit, great website that will grow into glorious archive for a new audience to discover and marvel at. Raw Circus at it's most brilliant an innovative five star petrol fuelled... |
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Johnny Electrolux, Metal Clown
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Johnny Electrolux, Metal Clown Johnny still performs across the UK and Europe – you can find him by clicking the website link at the foot of the page... In his words: Penned for... |
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Kase
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Mechanic and special effects technician for the metal clown show. Always busy making or fixing something. In this picture, as it was getting cold at night in the Ales kitchen, he just knocked up a sup... |
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Mark Borkowski
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Mark Borkowski the Publicist and third element of the Archaos Trinity. Together with Peirrot as the Creative Force and Adrian the Pragmatic Producer. He is one of the three men most respons... |
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Mischa
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In the late 1980’s I was living in Brighton and working at the Zap Club, my journey into the world of Archaos started when the Zap were asked to set up the pyramid stage at Glastonb... |
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Natalie
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Can you write Nathalie's Archaos story Do you have pictures or film or links to whats she's doing now? Please email them in. |
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Nick Love
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I met Archaos in 1990 on Glasgow Green. I watched their convoy pull on to Glasgow Green with some interest. I was crewing with my brother, Jeremy. on the Glasgow Fair. I asked Pierrot and Pascualito f... |
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Olli Groszer - Juggler
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His routine from an early Archaos show. http://juggling.tv/680 Includes the legend cigerette over the shoulder! Click the weblink for his website..... |
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Pascualito Voinet
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Pascalito an Archaos legend. Perfomer extraudinaire. Many audience members have never quite recovered from being 'flashed' by him or even snogged after succesful performance as Yoyo and Sophies cat... |
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Pax
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Pax- Bouinax and faithful Archaos family member and a really good mate. He had a passion for the circus and it was his life. He must have been a colectormanique as he had so much stuff, mainly bike ca... |
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Pierrot Bidon - The Boss
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Pierrot Bidon, who has died of cancer aged 56, will be best remembered for creating the cult circus troupe Archaos, one of the ensembles that galvanised the new circus movement, in which tradition... |
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Prolix
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Can you write Prolix's Archaos story? Email us. mischae@hotmail.com |
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Rockin Robin
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Robin ‘appeared’ in Manchester during the Bouinax tour. With his guitar strung around his body and a mouth organ hanging round his neck. He became a star of the after show crew drinking that took plac... |
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Sean Bike Boy
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Can you write his story? Email it in to mischae@hotmail.com Click the link to see what he is doing now.....is he still on his bike? |
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Serge
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Stunt bicycle rider on "Last show on earth", "Compilation", "Bouinax 91", and "DJ'93". From Provence,South of France |
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Stephan
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Mischievous genius mechanic with a twinkle in his eye and machine oil in his blood, Stephan specialised at Archaos in mutating and stripping vehicles back to their bones and reinventing them to guffaw... |
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Sue Brent
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Sue Brent met Pierrot Bidon when she was performing with Circus Senso at the first Festival of New Circus on the South Bank in London. She went to see the Chapiteau de Cordes and was totally inspired ... |
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Susie
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Susie – Lovely woman…… Australian, Bouinax and strong woman extraordinaire. Susie held her own in the male dominated world of the Bouinax; in fact she rather kept the boys in line and looked after t... |
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The Reunion 2010
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In September 2010 Ex-members of Archaos organised an exhibition on London ’s South Bank as part of the annual Mayors Festival. Adrian Evans and Mark Borkowski worked together to begin the... |
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The Thunderdogs
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House band in Metal Clown. Taking their name from a 70s cartoon strip by Hunt Emerson (who also did the album cover), the band first released the 3 track "Just after sunrise" 12" EP, which was... |
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Early Archaos/Last Show on Earth
This Layer of the map reveals the early shows that developed into Archaos's first UK blockbuster show ' The Last Show on Earth'
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Ales - Home
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1987, Archaos had established a permanent home with a circus school in the town of Alès in the south of France , parking their caravans and setting up workshops in the grounds... |
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Port O'Leith Public House
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The Port O'Lieth played an important part in the Archaos story, when Archaos played the fetsival each year troupe members ould be found afetr very show in carious stages of drunkeness in this fine e... |
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