Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip
Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip is a strange and beautiful beast of a band comprising Mik Artistik on preposterous posturing and vocals (no grandad should be able to move like that!), Benson Walker – a big beaming lighthouse of rockabilly funkiness – on bass and vocals, and the boney sonic dabbler Johnny Flockton on guitar.
The act juggles rock n’ roll, stand-up and performance art without tears, and is “bloody funny and poignant in equal measure”. With blistering performances at Glastonbury, Latitude and a string of other festivals in the last two years, the band has accumulated a disparate bunch of fans including the likes of Faust, Keith Allen, Kaiser Chiefs, Zodiac Mindwarp, Barnzley, Tom Hodgkinson and the Idler magazine. In Benson’s own immortal words, “cor blimey get bloody goin n see them”.
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Mik Artistik at Glastonbury 2008 CroissantNeuf Field:
