Richard Strange

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Richard Strange from The Art Festival at Hay on Vimeo.

  

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Since forming seminal ArtPunk band Doctors of Madness in 1975, Richard "Kid" Strange has made his presence felt in every corner of London life. He founded the influential Cabaret Futura in 1980, and since then has worked as an actor, appearing in Tim Burton’s Batman and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Between 2004-7, he collaborated with Marianne Faithfull and Tom Waits on The Black Rider. His memoir Strange – Punks and Drunks and Flick and Kicks was published in 2005.