The Cyclown Circus


I ran into my friend Raffi from high school randomly in Chiang Mai. He is performing with a bike circus that has travelled all over Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltic states, the 'Stans, Russia, Mongolia, China, Laos and are now in Thailand! They did all this on those crazy homemade tall bikes, with the occasional hitch-hiking or train interlude. They do a rag-tag circus, play skronk jazz and gypsy swing, sleep on floors, stop traffic and get kicked out of places. They have a CD and DVD available on their myspace site, along with a youtube video about them taken from a Shanghai TV news program. Catch them soon in Indonesia, or jail- whichever comes first.