page_title: Big Bang (British band)
section_title: 1989: Arabic Circus Tour
hierarchical_section_title: Big Bang (British band) / Musical history / 1989: Arabic Circus Tour
caption_attribution_description: English: Iain Williams of Big Bang (British Band) on stage during the bands lavish Arabic Circus Tour
context_page_description: Big Bang are a British electronic music duo that came to prominence in the late 1980s. The band consists of Laurence Malice and Iain Williams. Based in London, the duo were signed to Swanyard Records and spearheaded the music genre known as big beat.
context_section_description: During 1989, Big Bang performed several concerts to publicise the release of Voulez-Vous with their lavish Arabic Circus Tour that consisted of various circus acts including acrobats, one-wheel bicycle riders, fire-eaters, jugglers, flying trapeze artists and a belly-dancing troupe. Big Bang were joined on stage by the vocalists Teresa Revill and Jasmine Ventura. 
    Shows were performed at the Hippodrome, London in Leicester Square where Steve Strange hosted the night and it was said Grace Jones threatened to jump on stage to upstage the band  and at the Paramount City in Soho (formerly the Windmill Theatre), at the Hammersmith Palais in Hammersmith, and at Heaven nightclub with DJ's Mark Moore (creator of the band S'Express) and Colin Faver who on his Myspace page cites Big Bang as being one of his many musical influences. The Arabic Circus Tour also performed at a special Ball held in a massive disused West London warehouse hosted by the performance artist Leigh Bowery with experimental musician/vocalist Danielle Dax and American punk singer and former Andy Warhol protégé Jayne County appearing as supporting artists on the bill.
caption: Iain Williams on stage at the Hippodrome, London during Big Bang's Arabic Circus Tour, 1989
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