UPCOMING: The Drugs Don’t Work

The final part of the Coventry Dance Music Revolution Trilogy

On Thursday 29th August to Saturday 31st August 2024 Daylight Robbery presents REFLECTION#3 – “The Drugs Don’t Work”: an uncensored, immersive experience to be staged at the iconic Coventry Cathedral, featuring sound systems, laser displays, documentary film projections, digital animation and photographic exhibition. Featuring for one night only a special immersive theatrical experience, taking the audience back in time to 1993 at The Edge in Coventry.

During UK City of Culture 2021, Daylight Robbery produced the sell-out House is a Feeling in the vast showrooms of the former IKEA building, receiving over 5,000 visitors across 3 weekends. Now Daylight Robbery takes the audience into the labyrinthine downstairs spaces of Coventry Cathedral, with the next chapter in their saga documenting the electronic dance music revolution taking place in Coventry across the late 1980’s and early 90’s. The Drugs Don’t Work picks up the story in December 1993, with the first ever all-night jungle event outside of London, put on by Jungle Fever at The Edge in Coventry.

The exhibition will premiere two documentary films, including Concrete Jungle: The Birth of Jungle Fever, and experimental 3D digital short To Your Brain, To Your Vein…, screened in the vestry. Mixing live action with Bedknobs and Broomsticks-style animation, holographic and 3D digital imaging, To Your Brain… is an uncompromising cautionary tale in which MC Man Paris narrates his descent into drug addiction, and his ultimate redemption, in a darkly comedic take on the drug education film. The audience is invited to navigate the labyrinthine corridors of the cathedral, in an immersive experience animated by soundscapes, lasers, smoke and UV backdrops.

For tickets and event info: https://www.facebook.com/reflectioncov