When

7/10/2017, 7.30pm

Where

Alexandra Hall, Morley Town Hall

Price

£20/£15 concessions

Tickets available here.
 

Roger McGough and LiTTLe MaCHiNe


ROGER McGOUGH + LiTTLe MACHiNe
Roger McGough’s new show with Walter, Steve & Chris of LiTTLe MACHiNe features a fine selection of vintage, classic & surprising poems set to music. It’s a gala gig that’s making waves! New album The Likes of Us.

Oct’17
1 HULL City of Culture, University Middleton Hall with Brian Patten
Larkin Reflections week and part of The Word is Hull
6 BEWDLEY Arts Festival Mercure Hotel 8.00pm
7 MORLEY Arts Festival Alexandra Hall 7.30pm
11 NANTWICH Festival The Crown Ballroom solo show 7.00pm
13 FARNHAM The Maltings 7.30pm 01252 745444
15 SHERBORNE Literary Festival Digby Hall 7.00pm
29 IPSWICH New Wolsey Theatre 7.00pm 01473 295900
Nov’17
17 BLACKHEATH Mycenae House 7.30pm 020 8858 1749
30 FAREHAM Ashcroft Arts Centre 7.30pm 01329 223100
Dec’17
2 TEDDINGTON Landmark 7.30pm 020 8977 7558

2017 encompasses more McGough milestones than the average year. There’s the 50th anniversary of that iconic, well-thumbed & top-selling Penguin Modern Poets’ no.10 - The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough & Brian Patten. Then the summer of ’67 epic poem of love & lust, broken promises and unfettered dreams, Summer With Monika, republished with illustrations by the illustrious Chris Riddell. Plus a host of country-wide dates with The Bootleg Beatles and the RLPO in It Was Fifty Years Ago Today which sold out the Royal Albert Hall in hours.

Nov’17 - Roger’s significant birthday month sees the publication of 80 - a selection of poems for children (Puffin). The beat goes on. www.rogermcgough.org.uk

Photo credit: Colin Clarke ARPS
‘It’s my great privilege to be the warm-up act for LiTTLe MACHiNe - the most brilliant music and poetry band I've seen in decades’ Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate

Hilarious and surreal, McGough is a poet of many voices. Menace and melancholy there may be, but with plenty of McGough's characteristic wit and wordplay too. His latest book It Never Rains is a collection of new verses with drawings by the author. President of the Poetry Society, he has been honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. Roger presents the long-running Poetry Please. His Molière adaptations travel far & wide with English Touring Theatre. Lily The Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten - the beat goes on. @McgoughRoger

Recycling
I care about the environment and try to do what is right so I cycle to work every morning and recycle home every night
From It Never Rains Penguin

‘The patron saint of poetry’ Carol Ann Duffy
'rueful, unpredictable observation to please the sharpest wits' The Independent
‘a poemy torch in dark corners' Ian McMillan Poetry Review
'profound surprises and lasting images on almost every line' Siân Hughes T.E.S.
'a witty and ingenious chronicler of British life, who manages a range of perennial themes with a deftness and agility that is hard to beat' The Poetry Society
‘He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him’ The Times
'Liverpool's own Poet Laureate' Daily Post

Photo credit: Nick Wright

With LiTTLe MACHiNe
Formed in 2009 LiTTLe MACHiNe are the 'must have' act at Literary Festivals from York to Dubai. Drawing on three thousand years of poetry - Sappho, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Byron, Eliot, Larkin and many more - they set classic poems to music and perform them with energy, passion and humour. Music that moves the feet for words that move the soul!

Photo credit: Nick Wright

‘It's a long time since I heard something so exciting, a wonderful way of delivering poetry. The most brilliant music and poetry band in the world’. Carol Ann Duffy
‘LiTTLe MACHiNe’s sophisticated way with poetry made me fall in love with old and new favourites all over again. They make you laugh and break your heart.’ Gillian Clarke
‘I LOVE your work.’ Liz Lochhead

Little Machine are the musicians, composers, and writers Walter Wray, Steve Halliwell & Chris Hardy. They have appeared with Carol Ann Duffy, Roger McGough, Gillian Clarke, Liz Lochhead, John Cooper-Clarke, John Hegley and many others. It's poetry - but not as you've heard or seen it before.

www.little-machine.com

For adults & 14+. Followed by booksigning

Roger McGough and LiTTLe MaCHiNe


When

7/10/2017, 7.30pm

Where

Alexandra Hall, Morley Town Hall

Price

£20/£15 concessions

Tickets available here.
 

Roger McGough and LiTTLe MaCHiNe


ROGER McGOUGH + LiTTLe MACHiNe
Roger McGough’s new show with Walter, Steve & Chris of LiTTLe MACHiNe features a fine selection of vintage, classic & surprising poems set to music. It’s a gala gig that’s making waves! New album The Likes of Us.

Oct’17
1 HULL City of Culture, University Middleton Hall with Brian Patten
Larkin Reflections week and part of The Word is Hull
6 BEWDLEY Arts Festival Mercure Hotel 8.00pm
7 MORLEY Arts Festival Alexandra Hall 7.30pm
11 NANTWICH Festival The Crown Ballroom solo show 7.00pm
13 FARNHAM The Maltings 7.30pm 01252 745444
15 SHERBORNE Literary Festival Digby Hall 7.00pm
29 IPSWICH New Wolsey Theatre 7.00pm 01473 295900
Nov’17
17 BLACKHEATH Mycenae House 7.30pm 020 8858 1749
30 FAREHAM Ashcroft Arts Centre 7.30pm 01329 223100
Dec’17
2 TEDDINGTON Landmark 7.30pm 020 8977 7558

2017 encompasses more McGough milestones than the average year. There’s the 50th anniversary of that iconic, well-thumbed & top-selling Penguin Modern Poets’ no.10 - The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough & Brian Patten. Then the summer of ’67 epic poem of love & lust, broken promises and unfettered dreams, Summer With Monika, republished with illustrations by the illustrious Chris Riddell. Plus a host of country-wide dates with The Bootleg Beatles and the RLPO in It Was Fifty Years Ago Today which sold out the Royal Albert Hall in hours.

Nov’17 - Roger’s significant birthday month sees the publication of 80 - a selection of poems for children (Puffin). The beat goes on. www.rogermcgough.org.uk

Photo credit: Colin Clarke ARPS
‘It’s my great privilege to be the warm-up act for LiTTLe MACHiNe - the most brilliant music and poetry band I've seen in decades’ Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate

Hilarious and surreal, McGough is a poet of many voices. Menace and melancholy there may be, but with plenty of McGough's characteristic wit and wordplay too. His latest book It Never Rains is a collection of new verses with drawings by the author. President of the Poetry Society, he has been honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. Roger presents the long-running Poetry Please. His Molière adaptations travel far & wide with English Touring Theatre. Lily The Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten - the beat goes on. @McgoughRoger

Recycling
I care about the environment and try to do what is right so I cycle to work every morning and recycle home every night
From It Never Rains Penguin

‘The patron saint of poetry’ Carol Ann Duffy
'rueful, unpredictable observation to please the sharpest wits' The Independent
‘a poemy torch in dark corners' Ian McMillan Poetry Review
'profound surprises and lasting images on almost every line' Siân Hughes T.E.S.
'a witty and ingenious chronicler of British life, who manages a range of perennial themes with a deftness and agility that is hard to beat' The Poetry Society
‘He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him’ The Times
'Liverpool's own Poet Laureate' Daily Post

Photo credit: Nick Wright

With LiTTLe MACHiNe
Formed in 2009 LiTTLe MACHiNe are the 'must have' act at Literary Festivals from York to Dubai. Drawing on three thousand years of poetry - Sappho, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Byron, Eliot, Larkin and many more - they set classic poems to music and perform them with energy, passion and humour. Music that moves the feet for words that move the soul!

Photo credit: Nick Wright

‘It's a long time since I heard something so exciting, a wonderful way of delivering poetry. The most brilliant music and poetry band in the world’. Carol Ann Duffy
‘LiTTLe MACHiNe’s sophisticated way with poetry made me fall in love with old and new favourites all over again. They make you laugh and break your heart.’ Gillian Clarke
‘I LOVE your work.’ Liz Lochhead

Little Machine are the musicians, composers, and writers Walter Wray, Steve Halliwell & Chris Hardy. They have appeared with Carol Ann Duffy, Roger McGough, Gillian Clarke, Liz Lochhead, John Cooper-Clarke, John Hegley and many others. It's poetry - but not as you've heard or seen it before.

www.little-machine.com

For adults & 14+. Followed by booksigning