Ian McMillan voice
Luke Carver Goss accordion/guitar/vocals
Dylan Fowler guitar/mandocello/vocals
Clare Salaman nykelharp/hurdy-gurdy/violin
Nathan Riki Thomson double bass/flutes
Oli Wilson Dickson violin/percussion/vocals
Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb. He’s Poet-in-Residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, Humberside Police’s Beat Poet, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative 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? His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze.
www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk
Luke Carver Goss’s music includes commissions for symphony orchestras, rock bands, musicals, theatres and dance ensembles. He has arranged music for choirs, song-writers, bands and theatres. He works both on his own and in collaboration with composers, writers, dancers, artists and a dazzlingly good band called Szapora.
'You've got to go and hear them play .. fabulous' Fiona Talkington, Late Junction, BBC R3
www.lukecarvergoss.co.uk
'a breath of fresh air' Sue Arnold, The Observer,
'we were aching with laughter, pricked by small bright truths' John Harvey, The North
'Unmissable' Daily Express
'Think of the early Wordsworth reading his poems' The Wordsworth Trust
'You could call him daft as a brush but he’s as switched on as a power station' Yorkshire Evening Press,
'One of my all-time heroes - he's such a talented bloke, I could kill him' Mike Harding
'Like a couple dancing the tango' 4* Julian May, Songlines
'Very fine' Lester Simpson
'Fantastic!' The Durbervilles, BBC Radio Leeds
'Catch these guys live ... exhilarating' Taplas
'a bunch of top-drawer world musicians ... I can't wait 'til he takes it on the road' 4* John Medd, Nottingham Eve Post
'a winning aura' Clive Davis, The Sunday Times
'tunes that range from the stirring to the unashamedly sentimental' John L Walters The Guardian
'a definite success' fROOTS
'What a great CD! I was hooked from the first track' Genevieve Tudor, Sunday Folk BBC MIdlands
'Superb' Frank Hennessy, Celtic Heartbeat BBC Radio Wales
'It's a lovely record, really lovely!' Stuart Maconie
Yorkshire words and European music. Poet, broadcaster & comedian Ian McMillan dances with composer & accordionist Luke Carver Goss of Szapora - 'Truly refreshing' Danny Thompson - in this sizzling wok of words and music. Powerful, echoing tales of milkmen, mining, heatwaves, dads, death by shanty, voices found, industrial manoeuvres, 9/11 and the late great Ronnie Barker. Improvised and constructed - for audiences, 7 to 107. CD Sharp Stories out now.
www.taithrecords.co.uk
Bookings:
Adrian Mealing
UK TOURING
01684 540366
adrian@uktouring.org.uk
The Ian McMillan Orchestra's Friend Space (Top 16)
Enjoying your page too! Thanks for listening - btw could only get first two tracks on your page to play, the rest greyed out for some reason. Cheers Simon
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
Great music there ! Thanks for being my friend Wish you all the best Hope you'll enjoy my songs and they'll make you feel good ! Take care Kind regards from Paris JIBS
Thanks Luke Had a brilliant night at The Pea. Loved the songs and I'm still chuckling about "She Was Thin". Love and best wishes for the silly season, and good luck with everything. Joe
