Salty Brine: How Strange It Is (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show)

New York cabaret star Salty Brine has made his name with lavishly high concept shows that splice a classic album with – more often than not – a classic work of literature, for a set of covers, biographical rumination and flights of lyrical fancy. He has a vast arsenal of shows that will probably never get a UK airing, and he’s tended to bring over works that centre on a British album. Not this year, however: How Strange It Is (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show) does, of course, revolve around the cult ’90s indie band Neutral Milk Hotel’s peerless 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, which will be spliced with musings on Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl – fair enough, as the record is in fact largely based upon it.