Described by The Guardian as "a pioneer of the indie/fringe crossover",[1] since 2010 he has performed an annual, award-winning cabaret show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Mr.

Twonkey's Mumbo Jumbo Hotel won the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

written about the Hollywood film director having difficulty making a costume for The Elephant Man was announced as Vickers 2nd theatre vehicle with Paul playing Lynch himself.

[3] Several of the contributors formed the band Dawn of the Replicants and landed a major label record deal with eastwest, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The recording featured impersonations by Currie, elaborate sketches and musical backing, inspired by the likes of Ivor Cutler, the Jerky Boys, Chris Morris and Tom Waits.

His on-stage persona has been described as "Harpo Marx on heroin,"[9] as he tells "tales of such ridiculousness that they make the works of Edward Lear sound like the Six O'Clock News.

2013's Twonkey's Blue Cadabra "about young Stan Laurel's sexual yearnings, a flying Parisian tailor and a girl who regrettably booked a skiing holiday while on ecstasy,"[13] had "a warmth that's often missing from absurdism.

[16] Fifth show Twonkey's Private Restaurant opened in 2014, featuring tales of "time travel, puffer fish and dictators",[17] and rated as "oddly entertaining and utterly bizarre",[18] and "mind-boggling from start to finish".

[22] Also described as "a genuinely laugh-aloud show, a joyous experience",[23] and "being in his presence for an hour is delightful",[21] it garnered a nomination for the 2015 Malcolm Hardee Award For Comic Originality.

[34] 2019 brought the 10th anniversary show Twonkey's Ten Year Twitch, playing at Leicester, Prague and Buxton comedy festivals before a month long run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

With storylines jumping from stolen Neil Diamond outfits to the landlady of Leonardo da Vinci ("ahead of his time, but behind on his rent"),[35] Vickers had created "a world even Salvador Dalí would dismiss as a wretched fever-dream.

"[36] Reviews of this "sparklingly original cabaret"[35] included four stars in The Scotsman ("Climb aboard his Weird but Wonderful Waltzer and away we go"),[37] with The Skinny noting "after ten years, it wouldn't be the Fringe without Twonkey".

The show featuring "a whole lot of whimsy and a self-aware scrappiness",[42] with "few Fringe sights this year more unsettling than The Wobbly Waiter, a dismembered, dead-eyed puppet and frying pan fixture, advancing down the aisle",[43] received glowing reviews, described as "clowning at its very best" in The Scotsman's five star rating.

[44] Twonkey's Basket Weaving In Peru debuted at London's Angel Comedy Club in April 2024[45] before an Edinburgh Festival Fringe run throughout August.

The first all-new Twonkey show since the pandemic featured "music (which) really shines, reprising some of the elusive sensations conjured by Dawn Of The Replicants",[46] and "concentrated hysteria you can’t find anywhere else", in a five star Neuro Diverse Review.

His collaborators in no particular order include Replicants bandmates, The Leg, Hamish Hawk, Pierre Chandeze, his brother Steven Vickers, Clutch Daisy, Miss Hypnotique, John Callaghan, Massimiliano Puddu, Andy Currie, Keith Baxter, Joe Woods, Andrew Foggin and various local musicians.

Described as "barely-directional noise that careers along like a 50s scientist on a flying bedstead,"[51] Vickers would return to the story behind this "glorious mini rock opera"[52] in 2013 with his debut novel.

It garnered reviews in Mojo, Uncut and four stars in The Scotsman, who described it as "a Beefheart-inspired cacophony of punk strings and throaty testifying".

[62][63] An expansion of the storyline first presented in the 2010 album Itchy Grumble finally appeared in prose form, which Vickers considered a huge achievement given his dyslexia.

[69] The Show, described as 'weirdly colourful and unsettling'[70] The Stage awarded five stars saying 'You will appreciate writer Vickers' and director Jay's skill at getting their actors to play on several levels simultaneously with an impressive totality, creating a dark, demented, possibly absurdist comedy that alternately caresses and slaps you from all sides'.