This year’s Ominous Folk Show starts with a chap called Michael, who is not entirely sure who he has killed.

Folk enthusiasts familiar with the song Crazy Man Michael may see where we are going with all of this.

We included the song Crazy Man Michael the first time we tried using folk music as a way of getting a graphic novel onto a stage. I’ve been singing it for more than 20 years and it really is the perfect song for Hopeless – death, madness, crows, magic, murder on a beach…

We’ve now got an image of The Ominous Folk for this show. It’s good to have something that makes an explicit visual link between the performance wing and the comics.