Welcome
The Cosmic Sausages experience
With a repertoire of hundreds of songs, melodies and theme tunes, the Cosmic Sausages take their audience on a madcap musical tour of the world, meeting up with James Bond, Serge Gainsbourg, the Mafia, deranged cowboys, faithhealers, Cossacks and overacting popstars along the way.
Appearing first as a gentle folk band and armed only with acoustic instruments, close harmonies and a shared vision of the surreal, the Cosmic Sausages ambush their audience with a sustained barrage of pop classics, mixing theatre, circus, slapstick, competitions, crowd participation and insane walkabouts.
About the band
The Cosmic Sausages were formed in 1990 and developed their show during an epic 5-month European tour taking in twelve countries and performing their streetshows over 250 times.
Since then they have returned to Europe frequently, appearing at numerous street theatre and music festivals in places such as Ferrara, Neuchatel, Bern, Castellaro and Davos, as well as winter tours of the ski resorts including Chamonix, St Moritz, Meribel, Lenzeheide, Val d'Isere and Chateau D’oex.
Back home in England, the Sausages perform extensively up and down the land.
Appearing regularly at many festivals such as Glastonbury (numerous times!), they have also found themselves embedded in local folklore in many towns where they have become street performance legends!
The Sausages have played hundreds of weddings and parties and performed at corporate events for some of the country’s largest companies.
They have played in a wide variety of locations from the large (Earls Court and Knebworth) to the small (garden fêtes a speciality).
They have performed at the National Theatre and appeared in Pantomime at 'Circus Crimbo' at Blackheath Concert Halls 1999/2000.
Recordings
The Sausages have recorded two cassettes:
- 'The Cosmic Sausages' (1993)
- 'Down The Shops' (1995)
- 'A Fistful Of Sausages' (1999)
- 'Great Hits' (2002).
These can now be bought online!
Television
The Sausages performed the song 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' with Monty Python legend Eric Idle recently (2008) at a show for HRH Prince Charles, which was shown nationally on ITV1.
They have played live on Pick of the Fringe on HTV and are heavily featured in the Music Mavericks documentary by Swiss Art-House Film Director Alain Godet.
Other television appearances include ‘Newsround’, a live appearance during ‘National Music Day’ (BBC1) and several appearances on European television.