Rod Picott has been called “Mesmerising” by Rolling Stone magazine, and according to Houston Chronicle his songs are “Like Raymond Carver short stories.” His eye for revealing detail and his sense of empathy has brought praise from music critics since his debut and those qualities, as well as a potent defiance is on full display...
PAUL FOOT IMAGE CONSCIOUS Award-winning "deranged genius" Paul Foot is back with his latest collection of sublime witterings. You may have seen him on Never Mind The Buzzcocks or Would I Lie To You, now you can see him live in all his surrealist glory: "Greetings. I am one of the world’s comedians and I’m here to...
New Zealander Jarred Christmas has a unique style that deftly mixes gags with storytelling. He has a dynamic onstage persona and the ability to improvise and roll with anything that's thrown his way, making his comedy sizzle with originality. Full of passion and charisma, Jarred takes the audience on a hilarious thrill ride of laughs and gasps...
POETRY SHOWS ARE FUN. I PROMISE. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Olivia Gatwood’s new book, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today’s world and the challenge of briefly being both. Join us at one of her tour dates to...
JONNY & THE BAPTISTS: LOVE BRISTOL AND HATE BASTARDS (UK Tour) Musical satirists Jonny & the Baptists – real names Jonny Donahoe & Paddy Gervers – are among the hottest musical comedy acts on the UK scene, regularly appearing on TV, radio, at festivals and most recently a 50-date UK tour of their hit show...
OMID SINGH & CO Featuring LAURA LEXX plus compere ROBIN MORGAN "Omid is an absolute beast on stage... always bringing fire in his deliberate delivery." Comedy Central Born to an Iranian mother and Indian father, Omid Singh is one of the top multicultural comics working today. Not that he considers himself a public symbol or...
Doug Seegers' past is so unlikely that could form the basis of a classic country song, Deeply rooted in the musical traditions of the American South, he had a history as an itinerant musician before entering a long downward spiral of divorce, drink and drugs, eventually becoming homeless in Nashville. Then, from nowhere, a Swedish...
Lauded by the likes of Elton John, singer-songwriter siblings Helen and Joe Hammill, Cattle and Cane are, without doubt, the finest Americana act ever to have emerged from Middlesborough. Armed with a back catalogue of brilliant self-penned, addictively tuneful songs, and specialising in magnificent melodies and divine harmonies, their new record, Navigator, promises to be...
AHIR SHAH: DOTS (UK Tour) Nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017 and 2018, Ahir Shah is on tour again with his new stand-up show DOTS. Featuring Shah's signature blend of philosophical inquiry, personal examination, and real fun jokes, DOTS explores love, politics, culture, depression, and faith in an effort to...
NIGEL NG & CO Featuring TANIA EDWARDS plus compere SALLY-ANNE HAYWARD Nigel Ng grew up in Malaysia, lived in America for five years and moved to the UK in 2015. Having started his comedy career in Chicago, he’s relieved that (most) people in the UK get his jokes too, as evidenced by him winning the...
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud thought that infant boys sexually desire their mother, inevitably bringing them into conflict with their father. Anthropologists, however, reckon that incest avoidance is the norm within mammals because sheer exposure to family members kills passion. What does scientific research reveal about this issue? Freud may have been too literal, but interesting echoes...
Mary Gauthier is one of the most important and acclaimed songwriters in the world. The author of portfolio of extraordinary confessional songs, deeply personal, profoundly emotional pieces ranging from “I Drink,” a blunt accounting of addiction, to “March 11, 1962,” the day she was born — and relinquished to an orphanage — to “Worthy,” in...
