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SOT (English) HARLEY NEWMAN (MODERN PRIMITIVE ARTIST) \"You can present shocking things in a way that is just incredible to behold. This is a group of some of the best extreme stunt masters in the world, all gathered together to put on...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e5. SOT (English) HARLEY NEWMAN (MODERN PRIMITIVE ARTIST) \"You can present shocking things in a way that is just incredible to behold. This is a group of some of the best extreme stunt masters in the world, all gathered together to put on one show and each of us in our own way does a full evening show, except for maybe one person. And so we are picking and choosing some of the best things that each of us does and putting it together to make a different kind of show.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOT (English) PRINCE ALBERT (MODERN PRIMITIVE ARTIST) \"I was in banking for thirty years and then after I'd had enough of that, I took a bookshop for eight years and then I did mail order from home and I picked up a magazine with a beautiful girl on the cover with some piercings and I decided to have a few piercings. I'd already got tattoos; I started those after I left the bank. So I thought, I'll have a few piercings and it is so addictive; after I'd had one or two, I wanted more and I'm not finished yet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOT (English) HARLEY NEWMAN (MODERN PRIMITIVE ARTIST) \"People don't realise that the things we are doing are traditional stunts. I can lie on a bed of nails, before the industrial revolution when nails became easily accessible; they were still people who did the equivalent of it, which was lying on thorns. Now people walk on broken glass, a couple of thousand years ago, they walked on broken pots.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOT (English) PRINCE ALBERT (MODERN PRIMITIVE ARTIST) \"I've found great enthusiasm everywhere we've been and regarding my appearance, back home I'm welcomed with open arms practically everywhere I go. If I go to the doctor's surgery, the head of practice, who never spoke before, speaks and has even said he would like to get a photograph up on the wall of the surgery. And I go in the supermarket or the restaurants and I usually get bigger portions, yeah I've found it's been a very positive experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOT (English) PRINCE ALBERT (MODERN PRIMITIVE ARTIST) \" In the supermarket, there were some little kids that were a bit scared, and the mother brought them over to say hi and we spoke and they were fine then, you know, because I am not an aggressive person, but sometimes people identify the appearance with aggression and that isn't so, not in my case anyway.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNot for those with a weak stomach, 'The Modern Primitives' show draws together some of the most spectacular acts from the shocking world of alternative circus. The artists, who prefer to be called 'freaks', stab, swallow and tread on a variety of dangerous objects in a two hour show that culminates in one of them hanging from meat hooks, that only minutes before had been inserted into his back. The brainchild of two Austrian producers, Jochen Auer and Albin Wegerbauer, the show has just completed its first tour of Austria and Germany and there are now plans to tour in the rest of the world. \u003cbr/\u003eBut before they do, they will certainly have to iron out some of the difficulties that accompanied the fourteen-date tour of Austria and Germany. \u003cbr/\u003eDespite excellent media coverage on the tour, the show was dogged by low-ticket sales and problems with the promoter, which lead in at least one case to the show being called off. \u003cbr/\u003eThose who have seen the show, however, agree that it is an amazing spectacle that is both fascinating and shocking. And as Harley Newman points out, it presents the best acts that each 'freak' possesses.\u003cbr/\u003e\"You can present shocking things in a way that is just incredible to behold. This is a group of some of the best extreme stunt masters in the world, all gathered together to put on one show and each of us in our own way does a full evening show, except for maybe one person. And so we are picking and choosing some of the best things that each of us does and putting it together to make a different kind of show\".\u003cbr/\u003ePart of the fascination of 'Modern Primitives' lies not only in the acts but the freaks themselves; nearly all the artists are heavily tattooed and pierced, but some have taken both of these somewhat further. The 'freaks' Tiger Woman and Enigma for example are tattooed from head to toe and both have elected to have implantations: he has chosen small horns and she has taken whiskers to match her tiger stripes.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the visual star of the show is the seventy-year-old Briton Prince Albert, who has over five hundred piercings, a fascination he explains, that began after he left work.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I was in banking for thirty years and then after I'd had enough of that, I took a bookshop for eight years and then I did mail order from home and I picked up a magazine with a beautiful girl on the cover with some piercings and I decided to have a few piercings. I'd already got tattoos; I started those after I left the bank. So I thought, I'll have a few piercings and it is so addictive; after I'd had one or two, I wanted more and I'm not finished yet.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAs the official host and mascot of the show, Albert is responsible for drumming up interest in the show prior to it arriving in a particular city. Surprisingly, he has met little opposition to the shows during the tour.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I've found great enthusiasm everywhere we've been and regarding my appearance, back home I'm welcomed with open arms practically everywhere I go. If I go to the doctor's surgery, the head of practice, who never spoke before, speaks and has even said he would like to get a photograph up on the wall of the surgery. And I go in the supermarket or the restaurants and I usually get bigger portions, yeah I've found it's been a very positive experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHaving said that, he has had to win over one or two fans, who quickly learned that appearances are not everything.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the supermarket, there were some little kids that were a bit scared, and the mother brought them over to say hi and we spoke and they were fine then, you know, because I am not an aggressive person, but sometimes people identify the appearance with aggression and that isn't so, not in my case anyway.\"\u003cbr/\u003eShocking entertainment it might be, but the artists and producers are also at pains to point out that their art is following a grand tradition that can be traced back thousands of years, as Harley Newman points out.\u003cbr/\u003e\"People don't realise that the things we are doing are traditional stunts. I can lie on a bed of nails, before the industrial revolution when nails became easily accessible; they were still people who did the equivalent of it, which was lying on thorns. Now people walk on broken glass, a couple of thousand years ago, they walked on broken pots.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTradition aside, there is certainly nothing else like the 'Modern Primitive' show around at the moment and despite a few teething problems, it certainly looks as though the show will go on. 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