Five-star, smash-hit Bangers gets the party started with an exhilarating night of original music, lyrical storytelling and pure UK garage vibes.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to
00:06speak to Kane about the show Bangers, three performances coming to Brighton Dome, Thursday
00:11March the 20th to Saturday March the 22nd. Bangers, and it comes with such an appealing
00:17one-line description. This is a lyrical love letter to UK Garage. Tell me more.
00:26You literally, it's in the title, it's a love letter but it's also speaking about forbidden
00:33love. It has a forbidden love in the sense of love that maybe we're too young for, love that
00:41maybe the world doesn't see us right. But also it's sending love to garage music at the same
00:49time because the garage music is what's helping us get through, what's helping us push and tell
00:53this story. It sounds so appealing because there are some really quite tough issues in there,
00:59aren't there? You're talking about grief, you're talking about isolation and yeah,
01:04these difficult things. But the point of the show is that we're so much better if we actually speak
01:09about these things, isn't it? That is the message, isn't it? 100%. I mean, when we, us as humans,
01:16when we're holding things in, it just creates more tension and it creates more emotions,
01:20whether that be leading to anger or sadness or so forth, stress. I feel like it's the general
01:29thing. Once you speak about these things, you feel a sense of relief and you can just breathe.
01:35It's like taking a sigh of relief and you're just like, ah. Your character is dealing with grief,
01:41but he's not great at expressing it, is he then? No, Clef, he's had a very good upbringing,
01:53but he's finding it hard since he's had a bereavement, that he's finding it hard to
01:58cope with these things, to speak about it. If anyone asks him a question, he's like, no,
02:02it's cool, it's cool. I'm a man. This is how things happen, you know, instead of actually
02:10confronting it and actually speaking about it and how the collateral damage, what it does to
02:17all your relationships with other people, you know, because it's not only affecting you when
02:23you act in such a manner, but it's affecting the people around you. Without giving away
02:28too much or anything, the point is he learns that that's not the best approach.
02:33100%. 100%. Brilliant. I don't want to expand because then I will end up saying too much.
02:42I wouldn't want you to. But the point is, it's the music that helps people express, isn't it?
02:48100%. There's a, you know, sometimes people will listen to music and it could be a heartbreaking
02:56song, but really and truly it's because it's upbeat, you're just vibing to it, yeah, yeah,
03:02yeah. And it's just like, I mean, there's flowers, the Garage Tune flowers, it's, you know,
03:11I'll bring you flowers in a pouring rain, living without you's driving me insane. This is kind of
03:16heartbreaking right now. You know, they're telling me I can't live without you. But everyone's just
03:22singing it happily, like, yeah, because that's the feel we're getting from the music, you know?
03:27And it's about how music is helping us get through, even though we can hear these sad
03:34lyrics, but it's changing, we change the meaning behind the things, you know?
03:39Well, this sounds a great show. It's Bangers, Brighton Dome, March the 20th to March the 22nd.
03:46Kane, lovely to speak to you. Thank you.