From the moment the thumping bass kicks in to herald the start of proceedings, to the final, gravity-defying acrobatics at the end, the Tom Tom Club is thrilling.
As promised, the show is less a performance and more of a party, and the kind you'd end up staying at until the wee small hours if you could. Bringing together some of Australia's finest contemporary talent, DJ Dizz1 is on the decks, playing some prime hip-hop beats, while beatboxer Tom Thum blows the audience away with his vocal virtuosity.
Mouths dropped as he recreated, in a charmingly playful manner, the sounds of dirty drum 'n' bass, trumpet solos and scratching using only his voice and, in one instance, a loop pedal. Thum was apparently treated like a rock star when this show made its Edinburgh Fringe debut last year and it's not hard to see why.
World-renowned percussionist and Tom Tom Club ringmaster Ben Walsh is similarly stunning, whether working the crowd up in anticipation of the acts or pounding furiously on ramshackle drum kits with a speed, accuracy and innate rhythm that is both aurally and visually breathtaking.
Then, of course, there are the acrobats - a band of lithe, bare-chested guys who manage to combine self-conscious macho strutting with genuinely beautiful, elegant movement, as they wind themselves up in ropes and swing from the roof in a celebration of the human body.
The show is underpinned by a driving, contagious energy that leaves you feeling as giddy as a child after a pick 'n' mix binge.
If this is, as suggested, the future of circus, things are looking bright indeed.
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