24th February 2001
Workshop performance at Notre Dame Hall, London
The time is the future and Globalisation is complete. All musical instruments are banned and computers generate music for download. Everywhere kids are watching the same movies, wearing the same fashions and thinking the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock.
Beneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians, rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time The Rhapsody.
Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from the stone. Is Galileo the one?