Music Christopher Frost Setting England | Lyrics Barney Ashton-Bullock | |
Premiere 5 August 2014 (2014-08-05): Assembly Rooms Edinburgh Productions 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe | ||
Torsten the Bareback Saint is a one-person show and concept album written by playwright Barney Ashton-Bullock, and performed by pop singer Andy Bell of the band Erasure. The score is composed, orchestrated and arranged by Christopher Frost and produced by Mike Allison. The artistic director was Predrag Pajdic.
Promotional material for the show describes it as 'a set of musical postcards from the hotspots of memory of a semi-immortal polysexual'. The music is an episodic song-cycle, which Bell performs accompanied by a small musical ensemble.
Bell debuted the show at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he performed at Assembly Studio One daily from the 5th through the 16th of August. Prior to the festival, he gave two private performances at the St. James Theatre in London. The first of these, on 24 July 2014, was for an invited audience of family and friends; the second, on 26 July, he performed for a small gathering of fans.
Soundtrack album
A studio-recorded soundtrack album was released on 28 July 2014 by Strike Force Entertainment, an imprint of Cherry Red Records.
All lyrics written by Barney Ashton-Bullock.
On the back cover of the retail CD release, the titles of tracks 1, 8, and 10 are censored: 'Freshly', 'V for…?', and 'Mobile'.