The Big Issue

Amplify amazing voices

While some performers seem omnipresent in the media, there are so many fascinating and original voices who are not given the exposure they deserve. Joanna Neary is one of them. She has made me laugh until I have wept when I have seen her live. She has performed eccentric dances in fleshy body suits to Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball and intense suicidal choreography as a deranged ’ Pan’s Person to. Trapped in a modern world with dull husband Fred, who is usually immersed in sudoku or making models of junkers, their twin beds are divided by a Teasmade. Fred once read to her in bed – it was a Screwfix advert for drill bits that entertained him due to a pricing error.

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