JONNY FOREVER BRINGS “THANK YOU, FUCK YOU, AND I’M SORRY” – A PAGAN REQUIEM – TO EDINBURGH FRINGE
A one-man performance combining live music, projected animation, home video footage and spoken word Thank You, Fuck You, and I’m Sorry – A Pagan Requiem is part gig, part theatre, part grief ceremony.
THE SHOW
When his father died, Jonny Forever inherited a box of VHS tapes. Those recordings sit at the heart of this piece – a live ritual that charts a journey through diagnosis, decline, death and aftermath, with space for humour, tenderness and unexpected joy alongside the loss.
A fictionalised animated version of Jonny, guided by a mysterious stag, moves through an underworld of memory where childhood home video, live performance and animation intertwine.
Audience members are invited not as spectators but as witnesses, before the show builds to a euphoric club-anthem finale that reframes grief as connection and transformation rather than absence alone.
Jonny describes it as a “grief portal” – a space where private loss becomes something collective and shared in real time.
C AURORA | 5–16 AUGUST 2026 | 7:50PM | 60 MINS | TICKETS
Content Warning: Themes of death, terminal illness, grief and bereavement. Contains coarse language, ritual elements and moments of audience participation.
THE ARTIST
Though this is his debut release under the name Jonny Forever, the artist brings more than two decades of experience in music and performance. He is best known as a long-standing collaborator of Charlotte Church (co-writer, producer and musician on her EP projects) and as a core member of cult live phenomenon Late Night Pop Dungeon.
He was also co-founder and Head of Learning at The Awen Project, a democratic arts organisation for young people in South Wales.
THE ALBUM
The show is built around Jonny Forever’s debut album of the same name. The first single, It Isn’t Ok, But There’s Nothing That Can Be Done, debuted on BBC Radio 6 Music with Gemma Cairney. The project has received support from BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Introducing, BBC Wales, Soho Radio, Line of Best Fit and Nation.Cymru.
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