KlangHaus – InHause 12 by Gordon Woolcock 

 

 

Norfolk collective’s Edinburgh Fringe show to preview in a unique domestic setting – their own house!

Norfolk arts/performance collective KlangHaus are taking their new show KlangHaus: InHaus to the biggest arts festival in the world, The Edinburgh Fringe, next month – and Norwich audiences can catch some special preview performances in the unique setting of an historical C18 city centre house!

There are five opportunities to see the previews on Thursday 27 July at 4pm, 6pm and 8pm and on Friday 28 July at 4pm and 8pm.

KlangHaus is the union of Norwich’s art-rock heroes The Neutrinos and Great Yarmouth born visual artist Sal Pittman.

KlangHaus: InHaus continues their efforts to chew on the rule book of gig-going. The audience sit or stand in and around the band, the musicians literally a heartbeat away, as all hell breaks loose in an enhanced domestic setting. Full-on loud to pin-drop quiet and back again. A welcome-to-our-world, mind-the-step, hold-my-guitar-for-me, kind of approach, blending sound, song, humour, image, pathos, theatre, movement and silence. ‘A dark, clanking wonderland… KlangHaus isn’t a concert – it’s a little world’ said Time Out, while in The Guardian, top theatre critic Lyn Gardner observed ‘the walls of the space and the music are genuinely in dialogue with each other’.

The original KlangHaus debuted at The Edinburgh Festival in 2014 and proved a huge hit with audiences and critics. It gained a five-star review in The Times (‘a blast of aural and visual magic, a joy-inducing original’ said Donald Hutera) and features and reviews in The Guardian (‘The most innovative presentation of live music I’ve ever seen, a total game changer), Daily Telegraph, Scotsman, Herald, independent and more.

It went on to sell out two month-long runs in a previously unused space in London’s Royal Festival Hall as well as adaptations in a former furniture depositary, a vast unused bus depot and a horse hospital.

Now the original collective are back with an all new KlangHaus

Co-devisor/singer Karen Reilly said ‘After the success of KlangHaus we didn’t want to create a new show until we had something that at least equalled it in innovation and quality – and we all quietly believe that InHaus actually surpasses the previous show. We welcome everyone to share our life of wall-to-wall music, light, sound and saturated colour.’

‘For the Norwich shows we invite our hometown audiences to join us and help us hone our skills before the month long run at Edinburgh Fringe’. Tickets and further information at https://neutrinos.co.uk/

At the Fringe the collective will also be performing KlangHaus: Darkroom, a climate change wake-up call for an audience of one in complete darkness. With multiple daily airings of each show KlangHaus will perform at least 170 shows and potentially up to 212 in August.

Both shows were in The Guardian’s top 50 shows to see at the festival and KlangHaus: InHaus was selected as one of the recipients of the inaugural Keep it Fringe Fund (led by Fringe Society President and Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and is supported by Norwich Arts Centre, Norfolk County Council and the Help Musicians fund.

Karen Reilly and the KlangHaus collective are entertaining, witty and erudite interviewees. Contact Steve Forster for availabilities. Download high-res images from sfppr.co.uk/downloads and click on the Edinburgh Fringe button.

Listings info:
Thursday 27 July 4pm, 6pm and 8pm
Friday 28 July 4pm and 8pm
KlangHaus: Inhaus
Edinburgh Fringe preview from maverick Norfolk arts collective in the unique setting of a C18 century house
90 Upper St Giles St Norwich NR2 1LT

More info: https://neutrinos.co.uk/