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Terrificus @ Factory Theatre, 8th Feb

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 8 February 2026

“Terrificus are less a musical act than an exercise in deliberate mischief, home-made instruments and distortion and experimental oddballery. A single theatre of the absurd wouldn’t hold Terrificus, you’d need a street full of ballrooms, and even then they’d be standing on the roof, chucking rolls of toilet paper at you, as indeed they spend […]

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Terrificus @ The Lansdowne, 3rd Jan

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 4 January 2020

“It’s Day 3 of a new decade and if I see anything more wilfully unhinged in the next ten years than Terrificus, I’ll be stunned. 300bpm drum machines, Japanther, satire, “fucking Radiohead”, ear-splitting noise, an overhead projector, and – I can’t quite believe I’m writing this – quite a lot about Shaggy. Utterly deranged, in […]

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