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Artist: The Fabulous Fezheads
Genre: Crazy Fun
Performing: 17th & 18th July 2004 / Kidzone
Website Address: []
The Fabulous Fezheads are the Countries Premier Sand Dance Vaudevillian
Illusionists carrying on in the Tradition of Old ‘Blind Ned’ Cleggett
and his Famous Stage Act of the 1930’s the Amazing ‘Flying’
Cleggetts, Starring his Great Grand Son Pete the ‘Flying’ Cleggett
the Fabulous Fezheads were actually founded in 1991 as the result of a chance
encounter between Adonis Kebab, El Turnipo, Phil the Hun and Pete the ‘Flying’
Cleggett while performing at the Brighton Arts Festival.
Listening to tales and stories of Pete’s amazing family Music Hall Act with the Sand Dance and Ned’s Spectacular Stunts they were inspired to form a new act to include the Sand Dance and adopt the Fezhead name.
The Early Years
Father Ken and Adonis Kebab perform the classic Sand Dance ……Cleggett
performs some basic Circus Tricks.
1996 we made the leap into Stage illusion with Cleggett the Escapologist – “the ‘Flying’ Cleggett is Bound, Blindfolded, then Nailed and Chained in the Sarcophagus of Dhoom from whence he’s challenged to Escape!”
In 1997 the Fezheads came of age with the revival of The Flying Cleggett
– “the act that put in ‘Flying’ into Cleggett. Pete risks
everything when he is Loaded then Fired as a Human Projectile.” This
was shortly followed by the Vanishing Cleggett ( Magic ) Hoops of Destiny
and Laces of Fire ( Both Stunts )
In 1999 we built The Wheel of Death - “a rotating wheel of death upon
which the ‘Flying’ Cleggett is used as a spinning Human Target for
our resident Knife thrower ‘Phil the Hun’.”
Although we had practiced for many months there were still safety concerns
with this Act especially when it was first premiered at 5.30am during a pagan
May 1st Dawn Ceremony!
The Wheel of Death is in fact based on the old American burlesque Act of
‘Chopper’ Smith and his performing Baboon in the 1930’s Midwest.
The original Act consisted of ‘Chopper’ strapping the unfortunate
Baboon to the Wheel of a Wagon and throwing knives between the spokes of the
wheel and the Baboon. Obviously we could not ( for various legal, moral and
practical reasons ) lay our hands on a Baboon and Wagon, however we appeared
to have the next best thing in Pete the ‘Flying’ Cleggett and Adonis
Kebab s brilliance for building Stage
Props.
The Act of the ‘Flying Cleggett and the Wheel of Death’ consists
of Pete (the ‘Flying’ Cleggett ) being strapped onto a revolving
wheel of death and having knives thrown at him by a Blindfolded Knife Thrower!
The Blind Knife Thrower purely using the sound of Cleggetts voice as a guide
for the deadly blades.
Having fulfilled part of his dream to perform one of the Famous Stunts of his Great Grandfathers Stage Act, Pete felt it was time to press on so we became the Fabulous Fezheads As Cleggett is Bound, Blindfolded, Nailed and Chained in the Sarcophagus of Dhoom The Fabulous Fezheads perform ‘Sons of the Desert’ while he attempts escape ( The Hawth Theatre Crawley )
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