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Heaven and Hell is a performative journey through music and lyrics at the iconic Flashback London Records in Shoreditch, London, related to these two opposites. The artist uses song lyrics mixed with Rimbaud's Season in Hell, creating songs in situ. An allegory about life, death, and love. He takes these aspects of the lyrics, juxtaposing his real self with another performative one by the use of balloons tided at his hand. The cliche of Hell, presented in a sarcastic and ironic way, appears when the protagonist performer takes the audience down to the basement of the store where the Band is playing and interacting with the artist creating a wall of sound and emotions. 

To be trapped in a record store and finding a way out from your own self to find your heaven through music is redemption and forgiveness equal to a prayer in a Cathedral. Flashback Records is and will be the most emotive Cathedral of our feelings.
Diablo Inferno is a mysterious band. More info may come to light. They've never performed before and may never perform again. 

The unique setting of Flashback Records, Shoreditch (131 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London, E2 7DG) will allow the performance to take place over two floors, symbolically representing the themes of the artist's principal subject and title of this one of a kind performance: Heaven & Hell.
Diablo Inferno is:
Magnus Alanko, Gary Bridgewood, and Mark Burgess.
Magnus drums and has drummed and done other stuff with loads of projects including The Inconsolable and Those Unfortunates.
Gary plays soaring violin and many other instruments for various artists including the Book of Shame, Verklempt Family, Umbrellabirds, and Lizzy O'Connor
Mark plays bass, guitar and other things in Bands including Red Horses of the Snow and Dinted.

Japan  is such a great lace with so many interesting places and people. I spent a lot of time there. 

I first met The Magic Numbers on tour when I was sent to film them on tour for Japanorama.

What a blast that was.

One incident.. I mean event, happened in an all night Karaoke bar ending with me being ‘christened’ with a couple of pints of beer. It was the start of a long friendship. 

Watching the band play live around Japan as their audience grew and grew with each gig starting with a few hundred folk and ending with thousands was a great example of word of mouth which sure does  travel fast in Japan not dissimilar to a bullet train which we zipped up down and along the country.  

When they supported Franz Ferdinad at the Budokhan they had finished their set and the lights were on.

Romeo the singer was taking his seat to watch FF when an audience member spotted him and started clapping, within in a minute 10,000 people were giving him a standing ovation!

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I’m getting that feeling watching our world map light up with hotspots of where people are visiting the site.  Admittedly we are not in the 10,000s, more like the tens but that is a 200percent growth on a few days ago.

Nothing like statistics to make you feel good.