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 Experience ParisSpace

Set in ParisSpace - Paris past, present and future - Malcolm McLaren: The Game sees our hero and the Game's namesake, set out in search of his true self, his individual identity, his free spirit, lost in the day to day grind of nine to five and his endless search for fame and fortune.

"Am I doomed to this grey, predictable life of work, work, work and what for - money…to pay the bills, to buy a car, the latest gadget a designer suit, a new kitchen…"

Living as he does, inside a dustbin, McLaren hears the voice of the Game challenging him… Does he really want to find his outlaw spirit?

"Yes, yes, get me out of here."

And The Game begins...

With help and advice from fictional and historical figures, characters who have peopled McLaren's imagination over the years, he plays the Game, making his way through the different levels. Among his aides are Nadja, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Sartre, Claude Debussy, Edith Piaf, the Phantom of the Opera… he visits cyberspace, controlled by a teenager in a bedsit in the suburbs, conducts the orchestra at the old opera house, the Palais Garnier and even rides the rodeo with Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show at the Great Exhibition of 1889.

He enters each new level of the Game, following the cryptic advice of the various characters, hounded by his adversary, Boredom.

Eventually, McLaren enters the real world with recollections of working with Catherine Deneuve on his Paris album, along with the Sex Pistols concert in Paris in 1976, the heady days of freedom, before the group signed to a record company….

Malcolm McLaren: The Game is an epic adventure with a wall to wall soundtrack… this is radio in three dimensions.

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