Wayne Slater, writer and performer of the El Loco Shows was born in Salford , England in 1958. He readily admits that he stumbled through his school life and at the age of fifteen left Clarendon High School. After a string of dead end jobs Wayne arrived at Barry Island , Wales , in 1978 to take up the role of a Butlin Redcoat. This year Wayne will be celebrating thirty years in entertainment and is now regarded by his peers as one of the top comedy specialty acts in the UK today.

Birth of El Loco

“I wrote the first of the El Loco shows in 1994. The idea for the first Show had come about 8 years earlier when on my wedding day I gave my wife to be a poem. That poem was made up of a montage of Rod Stewart songs and over the next few years whenever I heard snippets of songs I thought I could juxtapose I wrote them down for future reference.”

The Dentist Chair is the fourth show that Wayne has put together with El Loco as the main character. The second was Radio Loco, and the third was Beastro Loco.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

El Loco appeared with his Dentist Chair Show for a four week run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005.
“I think I learnt so much in such a short time in Edinburgh . In fact once I got home I rewrote 60% of the act. You see the Fringe audience is so diverse, and if they don't like what they see in the first couple of minutes, they just get up and walk out. Fringe audiences take in around 11 shows a day, so on rewriting the show I knew I had to grab an audience early and keep them till the end. It was at this point that I felt the show really took off.”

New Show

Wayne has just finished writing show number five entitled “Loco's Bar”. The new show is set around a stylish art deco bar with El Loco ( photo ) as the barman. It is a combination of great comedy and unique magic and Wayne feels that without doubt it is his best work to date.  
Loco's bar is aimed at the cruising industry and will give Wayne two 40 minute shows and a unique place as one of the few acts in the world with two high quality visual comedy shows with no language barriers.