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I JIM ROSE Ringmaster and raconteur. He encourages members of the audience to tread his face into broken glass and his body into a bed of nails; staples money to his face using a staple gun; dislocates his shoulder in order to escape from a regulation strait-jacket; eats razorblades.
‘This show is about altering the body. so I’ve re-routed my nasal passage so that I can pound things into my head. I do The Human Blockhead with hammers, screwdrivers, nails, spikes. I do The Human Dartboard, people throw darts at me and yes, they stick in and no, I do not flinch very much.‘
I THE TORTURE KING Billed as ‘world famous for what he can endure.’ he walks barefoot up a ladder of razor- sharp swords; eats glass lightbulbs; pierces his face, neck and torso with over 40 hatpins and meat skewers, each tipped with a small lightbulb.
‘We hook him up to a generator and electrocute him. Not enough to kill him i :
but enough to make him illuminate.‘ Eeek! ‘Oh, it‘s beautiful.‘
I THE WIS MR UFTO sticks hooks through his eleven pierced body parts — nose, tongue, etc - and lifts heavy objects with them.
‘He’ll lift up concrete blocks with his nipples, making him look like a Dolly Parton body double, and then the part , of him that's most a mister, he’ll stick a hook through the head of that and lift up irons. Then he does the world- famous Lifto swing — you can‘t miss that one.’
Sort of equivalent to a stripper twirling her tassles, really?
‘Yeah. a little tassle tease there.’
I MAT ‘TIIE TUBE’ CROWLEY ‘He had a bizarre hobby. Now it‘s no longer a hobby 'cos he‘s a pro: non-incision
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