From: jason robbins
[tofutastic_at_hotmail_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 28 April 2008 17:08
Subject: GIG-ATILLA THE
STOCKBROKER-CANTERBURY.
PRESS RELEASE-GIG FRIDAY 16TH
MAY
TWENTY ONE SEVEN
PROMOTIONS
PRESENT…
ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
LIVE _at_ ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB (15 Orange
Street ,Canterbury, Kent )
Orange Street Music Club (bar) Tel: 01227
760801
FRIDAY 16TH MAY
8.00PM
FIVE POUNDS ON THE DOOR
Sharp tongued,
high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter. His themes are
topical, his words hard-hitting, his politics unashamedly radical.
Inspired
by the spirit and the ‘Do It Yourself’ ethos of punk rock, and above all by The
Clash and their overtly radical, political stance, he started as a punk bass
player in 1977 and took the name Attila the Stockbroker in 1980, blagging spots
for his poems and songs in between bands at punk gigs. He quickly got a couple
of John Peel radio sessions, a deal with London independent label Cherry Red
Records and before very long was on the cover of the UK music magazine ‘Melody
Maker’. He hasn’t looked back since!
Attila has done about 100 gigs a
year since 1982, over 2700 in total, visiting 19 countries, and has
published 4 books of poems and over 20 LPs/CDs. In the UK and other English
speaking countries he mainly performs solo poems and songs, in mainland
Europe mostly with his band Barnstormer, which combines his hard hitting
lyrics and what he calls ‘Renaissancecore’ – a melodic punk sound with
added violin, mandola and recorders, somewhere between a 16th century peasant
band and The Clash!
Have a look/listen
at
http://www.myspace.com/attilastockbroker
PHOTOGRAPHS ETC
ATTACHED.
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