The Hermit & His Acolyte 2017- Present

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The Hermit of Harrogate made his first explicit appearance in a disused tissue, I mean travel agents in Harrogate 2017. But The Hermit & His Acolyte had been floating around for a few years. The first picture shows a rare siting of The Orange Hermit in 2014 in a field somewhere in Yorkshire. During this intervention people were asked to consider The Orange Hermit as a prophet like figure. His acolyte, Adam, gave a testimony to this. Explaining how before he met the Orange Hermit he was lost, a lost boy, with no understanding of himself, the world, Bert Weedon or vanilla cheesecake. But The Orange Hermit helped him realise who he was, showed him the way and what he could be, how much the people could love him. But the dream died........

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But somehow from the death dream The Hermit arose again. He was no longer Orange and he now knew of his origins to Harrogate, he was The Hermit of Harrogate but you can just call him The Hermit, just call him. 

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He had an Acolyte, the Acolyte was always there but they just couldn't remember exactly who they were. They would stand by The Hermit from this point until the end of their days although they did have a wobbler in 2018 where they decided to quit being an Acolyte and wanted to become a rapper. It didn't quite work out and they carried on hanging out and then performing and then just accepting this is the way it will be. 

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Anyway, The Hermit mainly lives in an abandoned railway station but has been known to haunt other locations such as a basement in between a Greggs & a post office, a bank vault, a children's clothes shop as well as many others. Some say that if you visit the places The Hermit once resided you can hear his voice going "choo choo choo, LOOK OUT BELOW!"

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This aspect of our performative lives really started to self-mythologise. Not just starting on the pages or in the words we uttered but actually starting to have physical evidence and really involving others in these ideas. In involving others we started to learn, again, how we create, why we create and the things we like both outside of ourselves and within the universe we inhabit. We started to also play with what it means to be on stage, to what we are on stage, how do we effectively maneuver ourselves and the audience? How do we play with music? How do we play with words? How can we surprise each other? How can we still have fun? How can we sustain that energy? If not purposefully asking questions in the moment having time to be reflective and have time for each other. I feel at the end of the day, what has endured and what cements us as a double act is the friendship that we have.