Like rock music? Just like the circus? Within the Spanish capital of Madrid over the course of the subsequent week? Then we have now some wonderful information for you: The Rock Circus is at present on the town, entertaining followers on the IFEMA exhibition complicated on Av. del Partenón, not removed from the airport.
Publicity materials for the Rock Circus guarantees that patrons will bear witness to “a brand new leisure format that provides probably the most excessive circus acts while travelling by means of the historical past of rock.” Which all sounds very promising. However there’s extra.
“The present shall be carried out by a complete of fifty performers, together with jugglers, acrobats, trapeze artists, and so forth. and ten dancers,” say the organisers. “They are going to be joined by a rock and roll band with 18 musicians, who will carry out a repertoire of 40 songs by iconic teams like Kiss, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Weapons N’ Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Queen or David Bowie.
“These songs will accompany probably the most wonderful circus scenes that the creative workforce has developed throughout an exhaustive worldwide search, having compiled numbers from totally different international locations like Portugal, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Colombia or Italy.”
Spanish YouTubers Steel Stays (opens in new tab) have been to the Rock Circus to report on what’s taking place there so we do not have to, and their footage suggests that there is a lot to take pleasure in on the occasion. Highlights embody a spectacular bike globe of dying, a pair of aerial artists cavorting athletically whereas a stay band performs Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir, and a troupe of enthusiastic dancers prancing about to a medley of songs together with Metallica’s Enter Sandman, Weapons N’ Roses’ Welcome To The Jungle, and Kiss’s I Was Made For Lovin’ You.
Rock Circus runs till November 1. Tickets are on sale now (opens in new tab).