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The Foreskin Diaries music review: Lo-fi teach-in

Sex education is given a subversive, sometimes queasy makeover with a discussion of non-surgical circumcision 

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The Foreskin Diaries music review: Lo-fi teach-in

‘You’re doing sex wrong’. So says Ron Low, a David Byrne hair-alike wearing snazzy glasses, a t-shirt emblazoned with the aforementioned slogan and a fashion magazine friendly kilt from which dangles a tube-shaped weight swinging from what we shall politely call the sporran area. The latter is the TLC Tugger, an implement of Low’s design to help offset the effects of circumcision in a non-surgical manner. Low is on a mission here, as he regales us with some horror-show statistics regarding the perilous effects of what some might consider a rite-of-passage, but which can cause long lasting and sometimes horrific damage, not least, it seems, in a person’s sex life. 

Low’s lo-fi teach-in is punctuated by a series of songs in which he accompanies himself on a harpejji, an electronic instrument invented in the early noughties that looks like a hi-tech ironing board. Over a series of didactic ditties that act as a call to arms and other pieces of anatomy, Low’s crooning sounds like Lou Reed singing a Rugrats soundtrack in a show that should probably be on prescription. Worth a look if you have the balls.

The Foreskin Diaries, Laughing Horse Bar 50, until 24 August, 6.30pm. 

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