

It’s based on the war room in WarGames when that kid hacks into the Pentagon, or Dr. That’s why the show, with all the different screens on the stage, looks like a control room.

“Me and Richard are quite into… I wouldn’t say conspiracy theories, but the fact that we’re all being surveyed by the powers that be.

“Around that time I realised how things on TV are created to make you think in a certain way,” he says. As he studied media communications at Leeds University and dwelled in the city’s Orbit institution throughout the 90s, Weirdcore formed a belief that continues to inspire his work. “If I could manage to do a live show in a squat party, then I can manage to do a live show anywhere really,” he says, almost too casually. Throughout the 90s and mid-2000s, Weirdcore made the rounds across London’s venues and squat parties, juggling gigs at the ICA and Heaven with “dirty stuff in dark basements” that blurred the lines of legality.
