Stephen Brotherstone and Bob Fischer explore the creepy side of childhood Christmases, drawing on the horror of 1970s and '80s popular culture.
Stephen Brotherstone and Bob Fischer are bringing Scarred For Life Christmas Show to QUAD on Friday 18 December, a night dedicated to the creepier side of childhood Christmases. It's a new show that looks at the festive season through a slightly skewed lens, focusing on the lingering trauma and the weirdness that often sat alongside the tinsel for those who grew up in the seventies and eighties.
Brotherstone and Fischer are a natural pairing for this. Since 2017, Brotherstone has been chronicling the terrifying side of popular culture from that era in his Scarred For Life books, and Fischer is a Fortean Times columnist who created The Haunted Generation, a multi-media look at the weirder side of a 1970s childhood. Together they're rummaging through the things that didn't quite fit the postcard version of Christmas.
Much of the material draws on the creepy TV thrills that defined the period. They'll be talking about Worzel Gummidge, The Stone Tape, K9 and Company, The Woman in Black and the Jackanory Spine Chillers — the kind of things that stayed with you long after the credits rolled. The show includes an intro and a Q&A, so there's space to talk through it all rather than just listening.
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It's all happening at QUAD, the cinema, gallery, café bar and workshop in Derby's Cathedral Quarter that shows work by local, national and international artists, with John Hurt CBE, Paddy Considine, Jack O'Connell and John Tams as Patrons. The show starts at 19:30, with tickets at £15 standard and £13 concession.
