Andrew O’Neill is a gender spastic metalhead. As well as funny, clever and one of the nicest blokes you will ever meet. His hour-long show is only a fiver and is like being taken an a guided tour of the metal and occult sections in Borders by an assistant who is wearing his colleague’s uniform. At first glance of the poster there’s a fear that it might all be a bit gimmicky, more of a mis-placed character act. After just a few minutes it becomes apparent this is an honest and hilarious account of what it means to be an everyday eccentric in Britain today.
This is still a very accessible show with some more mainstream elements than you may at first anticipate. O’Neill has some intriguing and certainly worthwhile propositions for dispatching BNP leaders and Jonas Brothers alike, for example. But be prepared to have your mind opened and something crammed in it.
It’s hard to pinpoint the target audience here – occasionally the more serious messages contained, about opening oneself up to the universe, to possibility, may be lost on a well-lubricated late night audience. Then again, maybe this show is partially outreach work and could encourage less transphobic abuse or more spiritual exploration and expression.
Upon leaving this alternative education lesson, your head is full of info about the occult, make up, magick, metal and London night buses that you may want a pamphlet with some further reading suggestions. Sadly none are available, so get with the century and Facebook him.
Well worth seeing. This frank self-expressive act takes a lot of courage. This is comedy with balls, in a skirt.
4/5 
Zander Bruce
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