*** $15 Earlybird tickets are currently available in very limited quantities at Creation Body Piercing and at The Urban Boutique, Ozone on Memorial, and the Rockhouse. DON’T DELAY GET YOURS NOW!! THESE WILL SELL OUT FAST ***

Two time UK Beatboxing Champ BEARDYMAN will be making an… exclusive stop in Thunder Bay on his first ever tour of Canada. Catch one of the most entertaining humans on the planet in a completely unrehearsed, crowd directed show stopping performance.

Taking suggestions from twitter, the live crowd, and other forms of media Beardyman will create music live, in front of your eyes using only the sounds made with his mouth.

Not only this, but he records these sounds live, loops and manipulates them into a full on re-creation/mash-up based on suggestions and creates an entirely unique musical experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard.

Not impressed? Here’s some more information about this insanely talented performer:

After winning the well renowned Lyric Pad Beatbox Battle twice in 2004, he went on to win the title of London champion and UK runner up in the 2005 Championships and the following year became UK Beatbox Champion 2006. He successfully defended his title in June 2007 to become the first beatboxer in UK history to win the national championships twice in a row. In 2009 he won the award for Best Mc/Vocalist at the World renowned breakbeat awards ceremony Breakspoll.

His first musical venture was writing a symphony for his school orchestra at the age of ten. At fifteen, an introduction to drum ‘n’ bass led to his long-standing obsession with music technology. Now, in his live shows, as well as world-class solo human-beatbox, he uses his voice and live synths, driven through cutting-edge sound-mangling technology to create dance-inducing layered rhythms, breath-taking soundscapes, fully produced songs and tunes, often totally improvised and all created entirely from scratch. In Beardyman’s shows, no pre-recorded material is used, and everything is created live and in real time in front of the audience, who he takes on a mind-bending journey from dumbstruck to dancing and back again. His unique ablity to get any crowd going bonkers has seen him play huge stages, from bezerk Rave-core Mash-ups such as Bangface and Bloc, through to legendary drum ‘n’ bass rave ‘Slammin Vinyl’ to gigantic stadium filling childrens concerts to corporate events for Prudential, Google, Deloitte and loads of other ting innit.

Since starting to play out in 2001 Beardyman has supported Andy C, Marky, Shy FX, Grooverider, Nextmen, Groove Armada, Jazzy Jeff, Skinnyman, Terra Firma, Chaz and Dave, Squarepusher, Blondie, Bill Bailey, the beastie boys, Sly and the Family Stone, Wyclef, George Clinton, Underworld, and Jimmy Cliff and your mum, and has acted as compere for a huge variety of events all around Europe, including the Graz Hip hop festival in Austria, the Earls Court Urban Music Festival Love Box main stage, get Loaded main stage and Rise festival main stage, each in front of over 40,000 people. This Summer he will host the Bestival main stage and Camp Bestival. He hosted ‘The Freestyle Show’ on Get Lucky TV from 2004 to 2005 with Klum-Z-Tung, the mind-bogglingly quick-witted freestyle-MC, with whom he performed as the Gobfathers. He has supported Groove Armada on the UK leg of their tour and hosted Fatboy Slim’s Big Beach Boutique Party in Brighton. Basically he’s sicker than the black death. . . . cha. . .

LIVE MUSIC PRODUCER…

But Beatboxing has its musical limits so Beardyman went a step further to inject it full of knife-edge music technology. Using up to 4 Korg Kaoss Pad IIIs and state of the art looping technology enables him to improvise live on stage to create tracks that that may take weeks in the studio, using the very vanguard of Live Music Production to build sonic soundscapes; a pistol duel at dawn with the capabilities of top DJs. Like some sort of musical Victor Frankenstein, on stage he works the sonic vernacular into mind-expanding mashups using the sole instrument of his voice. His diversity and ability to musically evolve makes his skills truly exciting, probably the reason guru Rob Da Bank calls him “literally the most entertaining live human being I’ve seen in donkey’s years”.

NEW MODEL ARTIST…

Casting off the traditional shackles of the music industry, and using the very apex of cutting edge technology in his performances and marketing, Beardyman is a revolutionary in the media platforms he uses and is at the forefront of a new movement that is redefining the silhouette of what a musical act should be in the digital world of Web 2.0 and 3.0. Without a record deal he has played to hundreds of thousands of fans and gained a database of over 50,000 online subscribers across his interactive fan sites.

YOUTUBE SUPERSTAR…

Beardyman is widely known for being a YouTube “Star”, famed for his comedic and jaw-dropping virals beginning with Kitchen Diaries which has garnered over 5 MILLION views.

In the truest sense of the word viral, the talents of Beardyman have pervaded every last corner of the globe, gaining tens of millions of viewers, surfing into homes on the most prolific medium of the 21st century. In November 2008 Beardyman was beamed LIVE into your computer as a main headliner on the first ever streamed concert, YouTube Live, becoming a supernova of the world wide web and personal hero of the entire Google empire (owners of the earth).

Pre Youtube Live and since, Beardyman has been personally invited several times to headline Google‘s international Zeitgeist, climate and internal development conferences.

FESTIVAL HEADLINER…

On stage Beardyman has been playfully twisting the brains of ravers the world over with his unique brand of beatboxing-technological- mash-ups, leading them on sonic adventures with their addled minds. He’s graced the famed mainstages of Lovebox, Rise, Sonar by Night, Turning Point (the Roundhouse), Bestival, Snowbombing and many more, giving incredible performances that embraced the musical variety of the festival scene, memorably opening Glastonbury 2009 with a set in the Dance Village that was the flagstone for a sensational festival. His eye for talent has led him to join forces with artists of fearsome calibre, such as Fatboy Slim, Imogen Heap, Reggie Watts, Groove Armada, proving his dexterity as an artist. In November 2009 he made world history by performing and improvised show with a full sized orchestra in his collaboration with The Heritage Orchestra; sharing conducting duties with Jules Buckley, Beardyman used the sections of the orchestra as he would use his loopstation building full-scale improvised tunage from Dubstep to Disco, House to Drum and Bass.

COMEDY TIMING KING…

Central to all Beardyman performances is a playful sense of humour. Well aware that his incredible career is based on his ability to “tune a raspberry”, Beardyman is able to make fun of himself and the audience with a natural comedic ability, leading to standing ovations at sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe festival 2009, both with his own shows in the Udderbelly, Underbelly and at the Time Out comedy revue ‘For One Night Only’, as well as the Udderbelly on London’s South Bank proving an ability to cross over genres. In July 2010 Beardyman will be debuting at Montreal Comedy Festival: ‘Just For Laughs’.

BATTLEJAM HOST…

Bringing it all home is Battlejam, Beardyman’s world-renowned underground club night, which sees unprecedented quantities of ravers flock in unprecedented droves to clubs in London and Brighton, the respective hometowns of Beardyman and turntable mentalist and 2008 DMC Champion JFB. Battlejam is famous for its crowd interaction and quirky collaborations, between freestyle MCs, DJs and musicians. Ready to smash your expectations all over again, Beardyman is getting into the studio to record the stuff in his mind, and outside of the constraints of looping, the outcome should be intergalactic. The next step for Beardyman could well be one giant leap for mankind…

Jean-Paul De Roover

Thunder Bay Acoustic/Rock/Pop/Experimental/Electronica/A Capella musician Jean-Paul De Roover has been added to the lineup for this event as well. Jean-Paul uses loopers, samplers, theramin, guitar and does vocals to create amazingly rich musical masterpieces. Just another reason to come out and support artists pushing the boundaries of traditional music making through the use of technology.

19+ SHOW

*** $15 Earlybird tickets are currently available in very limited quantities at Creation Body Piercing and at The Urban Boutique, Ozone on Memorial, and the Rockhouse. DON’T DELAY GET YOURS NOW!! THESE WILL SELL OUT FAST ***

Advance Tickets will be $20 and will be sold at the above locations when the Earlybirds sell out. There will also be delivery available for groups of 10 or more if needed. Advance tickets will be sold until the day of the event, or until they sell out.

If the event has not sold out, there will be tickets available at the door for the price of $25. Again, this is subject to attendance and current club capacity. To ensure your attendance we recommend purchasing well in advance.

Some youtube videos of live performances:

Beardyman websites:
http://www.youtube.com/beardyman
http://www.myspace.com/beardyman
http://www.beardyman.co.uk