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Portsmouth Festivities present:
THE IAN McMILLAN ORCHESTRA
Sharp Stories
Sunday 22 June 2008
7.30 pm
New Theatre Royal Portsmouth
Tickets: £10 (£8 con, £1 U18)
www.newtheatreroyal.com
023 9264 9000
‘One of my all-time heroes - he’s such
a talented bloke, I could kill him’ Mike Harding
‘Very fine’ Lester Simpson
‘He hits the nail on the head’ Rachel
Unthank
‘Catch these guys live … exhilarating’
Taplas
‘a bunch of top-drawer world musicians …
I can’t wait ‘til he takes it on the road’ John
Medd, Nott Eve Post 4-star
‘a winning aura’ Clive Davis,
The Sunday Times
‘tunes that range from the stirring to the
unashamedly sentimental’ John L Walters The Guardian
'a definite success’ fROOTS
'like a couple dancing the tango' Julian
May, Songlines 4-star
‘What a great CD! I was hooked from the first
track’ Genevieve Tudor, Sunday Folk BBC MIdlands
‘Superb’ Frank Hennessy, Celtic
Heartbeat BBC Radio Wales
‘It’s a lovely record, really lovely!’
Stuart Maconie
‘The John Peel of poetry’ Alec
Finlay
‘Jovial Poetic Troll’ Mark Radcliffe
Yorkshire words and European music. Poet, broadcaster
& comedian Ian McMillan dances with composer & accordionist
Luke Carver Goss of Szapora - 'Truly refreshing'
Danny Thompson - and Orchestra in this sizzling
wok of words and music. Powerful, echoing tales of milkmen, mining,
heatwaves, dads, voices found, death by shanty, industrial manoeuvres,
9/11 and the late great Ronnie Barker. Improvised and constructed
- for audiences, 7 to 107. Featured on The South Bank Show,
Loose Ends, Late Junction, The
Mike Harding Show… CD Sharp Stories
out now on Taith Records. http://www.theianmcmillanorchestra.com
Ian McMillan voice
Luke Carver Goss accordion / guitar
/ vocals
Dylan Fowler guitar / mandocello
/ vocals
Clare Salaman nyckelharpa / hurdy-gurdy
/ violin
Nathan Thomson double bass / flutes
/ kalimba
Oliver Wilson Dickson violin /
percussion / vocals
Poet, comedian & broadcaster Ian McMillan
hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb. He’s
Yorkshire Planetarium’s Poet in Space, Poet-in-Residence for
The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, Humberside Police’s
Beat Poet, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and a regular
on Newsnight Review, The Mark Radcliffe
Show, The Today Programme, You
& Yours, The Culture Show, Never
Mind The Full Stops… and Have I Got News
For You? His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats
make him sneeze. www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk
Luke Carver Goss’s music
includes commissions for symphony orchestras, rock bands, musicals,
theatres and dance ensembles. He has arranged music for choirs,
song-writers, bands and theatres. He works both on his own and in
collaboration with composers, writers, dancers, artists and a dazzlingly
good band called Szapora. 'You've got to go and
hear them play .. fabulous' Fiona Talkington,
Late Junction BBC R3 www.lukecarvergoss.co.uk
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