British TV network Channel 4 has today announced they are to continue their gypsy themed TV shows with My Big Fat Gypsy Rave set to hit screens this Novemeber.
My Big Fat Gypsy Rave follows in the path of a number of massively successful and award winning shows like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Gypsy Blood and will look at Britain’s growing underground Irish traveler rave scene.
Patrick Ward, head of Channel 4’s gypsy department, spoke about the announcement earlier, “People just can’t get enough of travelers these days. It’s hard to know what the attraction is but watching travelers from the comfort of your own home has become one of Britain’s favorite past times. Did you know that ninety nine percent of people who watch Mrs. Brown’s Boys actually believe it’s a documentary about travelers? Well its true.”
“The show will follow ten of the most influential families on the underground Irish traveler rave scene,” explained Mr. Ward, “five of them are Joyces and the other five McDonaghs. We’ll be looking at some really important aspects of traveler culture like under-dressed but extremely moral women, men you wouldn’t want to meet down a dark alley and of course highly charged emotional rows. It’ll be practically the same as My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, only at a rave.”
Micky McDonagh, the star DJ of the underground Irish traveler rave scene, spoke to Wunderground, “The traveler rave scene is really after taking off the last few years, we’re all digital DJs. You just wouldn’t have had the room for twenty four children and a vinyl collection in a caravan but now you can have all your music on the laptop, it’s brilliant. I’ve loads of music. Do you want me to burn you a few CDs? I’ll do you a good deal.”
“The traveler raves are class, it’s like a normal rave only everyone there is your cousin,” continued McDonagh, who has lived in England his whole life yet has a strange Irish accent. “There’s no drugs at the raves but you don’t really need to be taking drugs, they make you all friendly with each other and a traveler rave wouldn’t be a traveler rave if you didn’t all kick the shit out of each other at the end.”
“I’d say my biggest musical influence would be Calvin Harris,” claimed McDonnagh. “He’s just like the travelers, he doesn’t give a fuck what people think as long as he makes a few quid. If his music was a driveway it would be a traveler tarmac job and I’ve got a lot of respect for the man for that.”
The show, which was originally due to start in July but was delayed after a number of reels of expensive electrical cable used in the filming process went missing, premiers on E4 on November nineteenth.
