Kid Carpet is back with a bang in Blast Off, his second children’s music and theatre multimedia extravaganza.

Having been kicked out of the band from his first show, The Noisy Animals, he has become an astronaut but ends up getting reunited with Bear, Badger, Gorilla and Hedgehog to play a gig on the Sun having first travelled through a black hole.

“You’re so silly,” a young audience member shouted at Kid Carpet, aka Ed Patrick, within seconds of him walking onto the stage at the Brewery Theatre.

And that pretty much sums up Blast Off.

This is decidedly lo-fi entertainment, with a video camera projecting the adventures of the animals onto a big screen, which also doubles as the stars as their spaceship flies through the galaxy.

The spaceship is made out of cardboard, with a trusty sidekick hidden behind it to twiddle buttons, feed through faxes and provide echo-echo-echo when Patrick isn’t having fun with the vocoder.

In the words of Dolly Parton, however, “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”, so kudos to Arts Council England for providing funding that will take this show from a short preview at St Werburgh’s Apple Day last month, to here at the Brewery Theatre, and then across the UK from Exeter to East Sussex.

The minimalist production values of table tennis balls for shooting stars and a turntable for a black hole are akin to the imagination of young children, who just like Kid Carpet can turn a cardboard box into anything they want.

So it’s the story and adventures that make this show so much fun, and of course the manic energy of Patrick who never seems happy to just stick to the script, answering back to a few cheeky young hecklers and sitting among his audience when we first blast off, employing us all to steer the ship.

My two-and-a-half-year-old daughter had climbed out of her seat by the end of the 45-minute show to jump up and down and clap her hands in the centre aisle, still insisting on wearing her pink bicycle helmet, in her eyes her own space hat.

Blast Off is brilliantly fun children’s entertainment at its best.

Blast Off is at the Brewery Theatre until Sunday, with two shows each day at 11am and 2pm. For more information and book tickets, visit www.tobaccofactorytheatre.com/shows/detail/blast_off.