Time Out Reviews "Professor Starmayr's Exposition of Wonders"

"It's the old, familiar cry: 'There's just not enough science in cabaret these days!' Okay, not such a familiar cry but a worthy notion all the same. Tom Baker's new show brings a spirit of scientific enquiry together with dashes of steampunk, spiritualist Victoriana and a bit of smut and crooning. As our host Staymayr, Baker flirts with an Austrian accent and snips of Schroedinger; it's fun but he's far funnier as HP Lovebox, Cthulu rock god from another dimension ("sing along and I will consume your soul last"). His version of Creep was... something else. The other highlight was Amundsen and Slade's Sonic Sideshow - the duo have designed their own jerkin-like suits containing numerous sound files they can play with a tap, from animal noises sampled from the audience to movie fight effects. Good science. You also get Fancy Chance riding a dildo-equipped rocking machine and old-school bullet-catching and mind-reading from the Irrepressible Mr Flay.