Ian McMillan & Luke Carver Goss | Talking Myself Home | £6.50
This event is on September 13, 2013 8:30 pm
Friday 13th September | 20:30 - 22:00 | £6.50
Poet, broadcaster & comedian Ian McMillan and Olympic composer Luke Carver Goss present a hilarious night of poems, music & improv - like nothing you’ve ever seen before! ‘one of the best evenings of entertainment I have ever experienced’ Clwyd Theatr Cymru
‘the verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe’ Martin Dimery, Frome Festival
‘world-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers’ Carol Ann Duffy
Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb. He’s Poet-in-Residence for English National Opera, The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. He’s a BBC regular on Pick of the Week, The Arts Show, You & Yours, Last Word and Coast. He was featured with his Orchestra on The South Bank Show and recently castaway on Desert Island Discs. His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze. @IMcMillan www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk
Luke Carver Goss has written for Black Dyke Brass Band, The Sage Gateshead, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Pure Gold: a 4X4 relay for the Cultural Olympiad. He records & performs with his own group, the acclaimed Carver Trio, the Balkan singer Tea Hodzic, jazz singer Tina May and story-teller Daniel Morden in the group The Devil’s Violin. ‘Luke Carver Goss is a composer who creates big worlds of sound… British music at its most ingenious’ John L Walters, The Guardian www.lukecarvergoss.co.uk
This performance is aimed at an adult audience.
Venue: The Gulbenkian Theatre