Biography

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.  

Cruising

Loco's bar is aimed at the cruising industry, the only part of show business that is left with all year round work; this 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.

Family

Wayne has been married to Kate for 22 years this year, and they have 2 sons. Charlie who is 19 years old and studying at Chester University , and 14 year old George currently doing his GCSE's. They live in Teignmouth, Devon , England .

Manchester United

My Other love, other than my family, is following Man United. I recently retraced the final journey the Busby Babes took in February 1958 when United traveled to Red Star Belgrade. And it was on their return to Manchester the tragedy took place.

” I did this journey as a mark of respect as it is the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster this year, and it also my 50th birthday!”

Ambition

I have always believed that my best days lay ahead of me. My targets for the future are to cruise the world with my show, to work at the Moulin Rouge and Crazy Horse in Paris, the London Palladium and of course Las Vegas. Ambitious?.... A man with no target hits nothing.