A week after I graduated, after the Galvatrons’ fourth show, we signed to Warner Brothers and the next four years are a bit of a blur. I was at university studying computer animation. Johnny was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to chat with me about The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti and the ever-shifting personas of creative people. A few years after that, he was writing a novel in seclusion. Three or four bands later, he was fronting The Galvatrons on a world tour. Growing up in Australian rules football-obsessed Geelong, Australia, on a steady diet of David Bowie, Talking Heads, Van Halen, Prince and Devo, it was probably only a matter of time before Johnny formed a band. And it is something Johnny Galvatron, the lead designer, knows a thing or two about. That’s the central idea of The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti, the forthcoming game from Beethoven & Dinosaur. The mundane version of yourself melts away and a fiction, created as a kind of collaboration between the performer and the spectators, steps forth. Anyone who has ever performed on stage will tell you that they are a different person in front of the audience.
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