2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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Steve Pretty has the unlikely privilege of owning a mixtape of songs that were played at his own wake, which he attended on 30th January 2005.

Finding this tape at the bottom of a drawer six years later, Steve realised that the process of compiling a mixtape - of carefully assembling it track-by-track, of listening to every song as it was being recorded, of decorating the tape box with doodles and stickers so that it was just right - was a fundamentally different experience to assembling an iPod playlist built to be beamed directly to your Bluetooth-enabled snood.

So Steve started to wonder whether he could bring the mixtape experience kicking and screaming into the 21st century. He set about compiling an epic virtual mixtape of the world's favourite tracks through his website, encouraging people to talk about what those tracks meant to them and to engage with the music that they loved in new ways.

Just how similar are Deathcore and Progressive Country? If Christian Ska is crossed with Breakbeat then are the results greater than the sum of their parts? And how the hell did Christian Ska make the list of the world's favourite music in the first place?

By deconstructing the world's favourite music and then reassembling it using his unique blend of weird inventions, audience interaction and virtuosic musicianship, Steve presents a joyous hour of musical mayhem to remind you what music is really all about.

Interspersed with stories of just how Steve came to attend his own wake in the first place and what it's like to be reported presumed dead by the Daily Mail, Steve Pretty's Perfect Mixtape is part 'journey show', part primary school music lesson and part stadiumrock-gig-in-a-small-room-without-a-rock-band. Like the unholy offspring of Alex Horne and Beardyman, Steve blends an innovative use of technology ... think live looping, sampling and interactive projections ... with a confident and endearing comic persona to produce a unique brand of musical comedy.