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JONNY FOREVER + DEATH DISCO

Sun, Nov 1, 2:00 PM UTC · Margate Arts Club, Northdown Road, Cliftonville, Margate, UK
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  "createdAt": "2026-09-15T14:20:39Z",
  "description": "![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/09/22/15/21/04/ac555f55-6171-4d95-b1b9-94cc6ca1903b/e2157763-2612-49e0-9863-cdc5d6317ad8.jpeg)\n\n# Thank You, Fuck You, and I’m Sorry — A Pagan Requiem\n\n### **A Dead Good Festival Event**\n\n**Sunday 1st November**  \n**2:00pm – 4:30pm**  \n**Margate Arts Club, 276 Northdown Road, Margate, CT9 2PT**\n\n** £15**\n\n**A ritual for grief, ghosts, rage, love and letting go.**\n\n**“Opens an ancient understanding of grief inside you.”**  \n— Gemma Cairney, BBC 6 Music\n\n**★★★★★**  \n**Derek Awards**\n\n**★★★★★**  \n**Audience Review — Gavin Liddell**\n\n**★★★★★**  \n**Audience Review — Danielle Arkwright**\n\n**★★★★★**  \n**Audience Review — Ophelia Lark Pearce**\n\nFollowing its acclaimed, award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe, **Jonny Forever** brings _Thank You, Fuck You, and I’m Sorry_ to Margate — an intensely intimate live performance that sits somewhere between concert, theatre, requiem and ritual.\n\nCreated in the wake of his father’s death, this is a story of bereavement told through **live music, mythic storytelling, film, animation, home video and ritual**.\n\nJonny takes us deep into the underworld of memory, weaving emotionally raw songs with VHS footage filmed by his late father, newly created animation and fragments of a fictionalised 1990s childhood. A chthonic stag becomes a guide through the landscape of grief as past and present bleed together — documentary becomes memory, memory becomes myth.\n\nAt the centre of the performance is an altar, around which Jonny explores **remembrance, anger, forgiveness, love and release**. The audience are not simply spectators, but witnesses to a shared ceremony in which private grief becomes something communal.\n\nThe work moves through the cycle of **diagnosis, decline, death and aftermath** , holding space for the full and contradictory experience of grief — its devastation, absurdity, tenderness, rage and unexpected beauty.\n\nAnd then, somehow, it turns towards the light.\n\n### THE RITUAL\n\nBuilt around Jonny Forever’s debut album, _Thank You, Fuck You, and I’m Sorry_, the performance has been described as a **“pagan requiem”** — a genre-defying collision of stark songwriting, expansive soundscapes, spoken word and ritual.\n\nThe show culminates in a collective release: a final prayer giving way to an ecstatic, euphoric finale that reframes grief not simply as an ending, but as **connection, continuity and transformation**.\n\nFollowing the performance, Jonny will lead **DEATH DISCO** — an ecstatic cut-and-paste DJ set that raises the spirits of the living and the dead.\n\nDrawing on pop classics, floor-fillers, oddities, unlikely mashups, funeral rites and esoteric poetry, the audience are invited to dance through whatever the ritual has stirred up.\n\n**Come for the requiem. Stay for the wake.**\n\n###  ABOUT JONNY FOREVER\n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/09/22/15/21/35/b9cb973c-e13c-4700-a6b3-a7c76d963956/14cf118b-b1b5-4de9-afda-f3174cde6965.jpeg)\n\nJonny Forever is a multidisciplinary artist working across music, storytelling, performance and ritual. A musician, composer, performer and storyteller with more than two decades of experience, his work creates spaces where grief, transformation and collective witnessing can meet.\n\n_Thank You, Fuck You, and I’m Sorry_ received five-star reviews at the **2026 Edinburgh Fringe** , alongside the FringeReview **Hidden Gem Award** and a **Best of the Fringe** accolade from The Vile Arts.\n\nJonny is also the musical director, arranger and performer for **Charlotte Church’s Pop Dungeon** , a cult live show he helped develop and which has toured the UK and Europe to sold-out audiences.\n\n[@jonnyforever\\_](https://www.instagram.com/jonnyforever_/)\n\n### CONTENT NOTE\n\nThis performance explores **death, terminal illness, grief and bereavement** , including emotionally intense material relating to family relationships and loss. It also contains **coarse language, ritual elements and moments of audience participation**.\n\nFor anyone who has lost someone.\n\nFor anyone who has loved deeply.\n\nFor anyone who has sat in the darkness and wondered how to find their way back.\n\n**Thank you. Fuck you. And I’m sorry.**\n\n**★★★★★ Derek Awards** · **HIDDEN GEM — FringeReview** · **BEST OF THE FRINGE — The Vile Arts**\n\n> **Something very special and utterly unique. Bravo.”**  \n> — Ed O’Brien, Radiohead\n\n> **“Lyrical storytelling to make my skin shiver.”**  \n> — Hollie McNish\n\n> **“Opens an ancient understanding of grief inside you.”**  \n> — Gemma Cairney, BBC 6 Music\n\n> **“A gifted sonic sermon on the art of loving, losing, and rallying back towards the light. Colossally, cosmically brilliant.”**  \n> — Michael Pedersen\n\n> **“Hidden Gem.”**  \n> — FringeReview\n\n> **“Best of the Fringe.”**  \n> — The Vile Arts\n\n> **“Recommended.”**  \n> — BBC Radio Scotland\n> \n>  You can read [our ticket terms and conditions](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZSdrUX0V00eRRVd_brA3aKdIZYJ0307f5qk2icIuSdE/edit?tab=t.0) here. \n> \n> ![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/09/22/17/21/58/6cc5a595-fc9d-49da-bdce-516cd9725b0b/8ab7a873-9d11-44c8-851c-7b7e03d8573c.jpeg)\n> \n> ![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/09/22/17/22/08/cb48effa-197e-4d65-b3f7-7a123a560224/f6cc278c-c752-4361-b060-486a69a1b45d.jpeg)",
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