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The Ian McMillan
Orchestra
Sharp
Stories
Thursday 23 October
7.45pm
Gulbenkian Theatre,
“Catch these guys live …
exhilarating” Taplas
“Truly refreshing” Danny Thompson
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.
“…tunes that range
from the stirring to the unashamedly sentimental” The
Guardian
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 and
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 Investagative 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? He featured recently on The
South Bank Show. His rip-roaring poetry shows are
legendary.
Don’t miss the chance
to see “The John Peel of Poetry”
(Alec Finlay) at the Gulbenkian Theatre.
The performance will be followed by
a book signing.
Tickets £12.50 Students £10
Booking Office 01227
769075
On line bookings www.gulbenkiantheatre.co.uk
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PHOTO CREDIT Brian Jones