- This event has passed.
Mik Artistik
30 August @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Mik’s an artist who manages to hypnotise and terrorise in the way that no other does, all whilst making music to save souls, cause confusion and spread genuine hilarity along the way. Who else out there sings about love, mortality, invisible cloaks, Adidas Sambas, and plastic garden ornaments?
His meandering, ad-hoc, flights of fancy are legendary “as is his partner in crime Jonny Flockton’s exquisite guitar playing. He has a chameleon-like ability to bring melody, form and musicianship to the teetering chaos that looms over each performance.
There is a reason that Mik Artistik’s Ego trip have become legendary Glastonbury performers since they first appeared there in 2007 ” for many the festival doesn’t start until they’ve seen them.
The story of how Mik got to this point gives you a sense of where his fearless performances come from. In the early 80’s after art college, he floated around working odd jobs and labouring on building sites. After a period “on the dole” he decided to leave state support behind and live off his wits. His grand plan: to take an ironing board to the Merion shopping centre in Leeds and sell old ties off it. Sadly, this wasn’t the entrepreneurial innovation he hoped it would be. But fate would intervene, and 1982 he drew a friend in a launderette (it was the 80’s,remember) on a paper bag in biro.
He had a talent, and realised he could make it pay.
