A beast charming ceremony for Hull Freedom Festival 2015
The original Pandaemonium - an event to summon The Beast of Bracknell, a 6m high smoke snorting illuminated totemic stag at Big Day Out festival 2008
Line up of elements for an Illuminated parade in Preston 2016, Rag & Bone took the Obby Oss, Boneshaker, Beast and the Hurly Burly.
Rag and Bone on the streets of Preston, October 2016
Rag and Bone on the streets of Preston, October 2016
A beast charming ceremony for Hull Freedom Festival 2015
The Beast of the Boneyard takes on a fearless beast wrangler, in Bone Yard Tales, 2013
Set for Bone Yard Tales 2013. Comprised of 3 seperate towers/structures that wheeled apart & transformed into mobile towers, images and beasts during the course of the show.
Mobile set and structures temporarily transformed into a boat sailing the seas of scrap during Boneyard Tales performance by Rag and Bone 2013
The Beast of Blackpool, a 6m high smoke snorting illuminated totemic stag at Heat the Streets, Blackpool 2009
Pandamonium Engine, a mobile kinetic contraption animated by fire, movement and pyrotechnics, in action with Tongues of Fire Street Band at Heat the Streets, Blackpool 2009
Rag and Bone
Rag & Bone are makers of great beasts, giants & puppets,fiery devices and mechanical contraptions. A collaboration with multiple makers, musicians, performers and technicians, Rag & Bone create elemental performances, installations, parades and processions.
Dave Young and musician/composer Tim Hill formed Rag & Bone in 2008, inspired by the mysteries of improvisation and the glories of noise, by the richness of folklore and mythology, by the hidden histories in the landscape around us, and by traditions of festivities and fairs, street music and carnivals from around the world.