Fischer-Z With Flies On You

About

John Watts’ 39-year career as Fischer-Z includes 19 albums and 3000 concerts worldwide with success spanning continental Europe and album sales in excess of two million. *Peter Gabriel, Steve Cropper* and *Dexy’s Midnight Runners’* *Brass Section* have all contributed to recordings. Fischer-Z have performed to crowds of 167,000 alongside *James Brown* in East Berlin, toured with both *The Police* and *Dire Straits*, appeared with *Bob Marley* on his final European festival tour and have toured in both the USA and Canada. In recent years Watts has developed a reputation as a multimedia artist, poet and playwright, amassing an impressive and eclectic range of creative work characterized by verve, warmth and humanity.

2017 year is a milestone in the Fischer-Z journey; the 40th anniversary of the band’s first show, the release of a 20th studio album and the pulling together of Fischer-Z in a continuous timeline from 1977-2017. ‘Building Bridges’ is the provisional title of the new work containing songs about the major challenges of our time; to build bridges over religious divides, between political left and right, between rich and poor and the conflicting attitudes toward global migration.