Big Fat Electric & The Secret Life of the Victorian Market

by Sarah Grant, 1 Aug 2009

An exciting event which will be part of RE:IMAGINING will be Big Fat Electric which will be in the Victorian market on the evening of Friday the 11th September. This will be the creation of musician and producer Dave Martin.

Dave Martin has worked nationally and internationally with a number of theatre, production and dance companies, solo artists and groups including the national theatre of Scotland, Royal Shakespeare Company, 7:84, The Tramway, Poorboy, Ankur Productions, Grid Iron, The Fall, Suns of Arqua, Dodgy, Tigerstyle, John Cooper Clarke.

Dave recently emailed me to give an overview of what the event would entail and his own excitement to be able to create such a spectacle in Inverness;

“As the anticipation builds the door of the market opens, slowly revealing a fantastic world of light, sound and stunning visuals telling the story of the Secret Life of the Victorian Market.

Big Fat Electric will be an intense and atmospheric live multi media, multi arts, club experience featuring DJs, VJs, costume and dance, original electronic music, recordings, original visual art and live performance.

Im really happy to have found some great artists to collaborate with on Big Fat – The amazing and very Irish Jen Cantwell, the hilarious and powerfull Annie Marrs, the smaller but perfectly visual Graeme Roger, the bigger and louder – Monkey Magic, The lady with the Cello – Christine Hanson, the dancing diamond Caroline Coomber and Steve Coomber, the boy with the piano fingers David Allen, the family guy Ali Ross and the illuminating Arla Keen

The work that is being produced for Big Fat is looking and sounding fantastic, we are all really excited about the event and know that it is going to be something special…….Hopefully!!!!!!

Been wanting to create something like this for a long time and it is amazing to get the opportunity through re imagining the centre and amazing to be able to use the Victorian Market as the venue.”