Imagine the scene.. a dark stage and an ominous, droning noise.
Slowly, a screen flickers into life, the images resolving into post-industrial footage - abandoned warehouses, railway lines, empty docks.
4 musicians step into the murky light, wearing yer usual under-dressed anti-cap baggy clothes but with their faces fully made up in blackface.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
Godspeed You! Black & White Minstrel Show.