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MR DIFFERENT

In 2017 Egriega will be unveiling a new show Mr Different. A play with live music but no actors...

Imagine if you will that you are walking home late at night from the centre of town.....in front of you a large bag is moving in the middle of the street.... something emerges from the detritus...but it is even messier than you could imagine...a big man with a pineapple style top knot...his mouth covered with gaffa tape.....wearing virtually no clothes and a sign around his neck saying "Mr Different...."

Angela says" I felt in my water that something strange was going to happen!"..."you should get your kidneys checked, sounds like you've got an infection" says Donna as she picks some kebab out of her teeth.....

A jogger runs by and takes a selfie without noticing this unusual tableau.....

It is all quiet except for the sound of expectations being shattered....and a cuban tango trio who just happen to be practising in the middle of the road.

Come and see what happens next at Buxton Fringe 1pm on July 8th, 12th, 15th and 19th...a bit like Britain's got talent, except with live music, comedy and sadness and without the disappointing spectacle of Simon Cowell telling you what he thinks!

REVIEW OF MR DIFFERENT - Mr Different is currently seeking Arts Council Funding in order to bring a version of the piece to arts theatres and centres around the UK. There will be an accompanying website to document the R & D progress of this project. For now here is a review of the original performance.

My early tip for today is easy. Peter Egriega’s Mr Different was lots of fun when I saw it on Saturday. It’s a music gig with a difference as he plays an eccentric reprobate joining in with buskers at the fag end of a night out (thankfully its much more entertaining than a real life reprobate joining in with buskers). Great songs and stories at 1pm at Underground Venues at the Old Clubhouse.

Peter Egriega’s Mr Different and band (photo: Sareth Stanley)

Stephen Walker

Pieter Egriega is quoted as saying, “I think it’s fair to say I play music that is not like anybody else, with a voice that is not like anybody else.” Which makes him hard to describe or to pigeonhole, unless there is now a category of post-punk, late night, observational cabaret, here transposed to 1p.m. on a bright, hot Buxton Carnival Day.

No pigeonholing, but Pieter’s songs do reflect the contemporary culture that Manchester has given the world. A way with words that has given us Morrissey, John Cooper Clarke, Mark E Smith - and if you Google Egriega’s back story and his pedigree you will see why.

The songs describe the frailties of urban life, vignettes of drunken Saturday nights, full of hopes and self-delusion. “All human life is here”, as the News of the World masthead used to say.

This is urban life as observed by Mr Different - a troubled character with a mistrust of bureaucracy and officialdom, a detached observer of the life that teems around him. He is equally detached from the three-piece band he claims are buskers hoping for small change from the drunks on their way home. Fortunately, this claim is just a theatrical device. The three-piece band actually deliver sinuous, Latin-inflected rhythms that underpin the whole show brilliantly.

The vignettes include the longings of a woman who desperately wants a tender man, but dresses like Marilyn Monroe, works the clubs and obviously gives out the ‘wrong signals’ which attract anything-but-tender men. There is medallion man Dave who calls himself Fabio and sees himself as a Lothario. A song about unusual sexual practices, some of which appear to involve surrogate human beings, is reminiscent of Tom Lehrer’s Sado-Masochism Tango - and if I’m not mistaken comes with its own tango rhythm. And a song with the chorus ‘I See You’ and a line something like “the money would be OK but I’d rather you were alive” stops you in your tracks when you realise ICU means something entirely different.

These are songs with a lyrical content that is witty, colourful and thought-provoking. His delivery is gripping and the music weaves in and out, holding the whole performance together seamlessly. Oh, and his voice may not be like anybody else, but it is definitely a voice of power and experience. Contrary to the poster for the show, there is no gaffer tape muzzling this performance.

Graham Jowett

Mr Different has recently been awarded a £14,00 grant from the Arts Council to research and develop into a larger theatrical experience commencing at Trinity Arts Centre Gainsborough Lincolnshire in conjunction with Craig Sanders, their Artistic Director www.mrdifferent.co.uk

OTHER MUSIC UNPUBLISHED

I KNEW YOUR FATHER BEFORE HE WAS A KNOB

(A popular song from our live performance)

VOODOO IN MY SOUP

(Every songwriter has a song around erectile dysfunction)

AMBIENT MUSIC - CLOUDS
Relaxation music from around the world

Clouds is available on CD via Paypal £10 plus £1 shipping - Click Buy Now

Frank Sinistra: Sex & Drugs & Pr

Frank Sinistra is a former News of the World Journalist. Currently he is a PR consultant and lounge singer. He carries on his business in between singing tunes written by a complete no-mark called Pieter Egriega. "Well it was either that or the American Songbook and Frank hates Yanks and doesn't have to pay Egriega any royalties.

Frank is accompanied by a pianist Charles Warburton Omerod, who is the eldest son of Rupert Ponsonby Warburton, he of the bread making dynasty. Sadly he has been disinherited from the family fortune. We are introduced to Charles as the former sex slave of Ann Widdicombe

Pieter Egriega

Creativity in the 21st Century.

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I KNEW YOUR FATHER BEFORE HE WAS A KNOB(A popular song from our live performance)

VOODOO IN MY SOUP(Every songwriter has a song around erectile dysfunction)

Creativity in the 21st Century
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I KNEW YOUR FATHER BEFORE HE WAS A KNOB

(A popular song from our live performance)

VOODOO IN MY SOUP

(Every songwriter has a song around erectile dysfunction)