John Cooper Clarke shot to prominence in the 1970s as the original ‘people’s poet’.

Johnny Vegas stars as Moz, as award-winning BBC TV series comes to the stage for very first time, celebrating 20 years since the show’s first broadcast.

Henry is a writer, poet, TV & Film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival.

Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 500,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community.

Brian Bilston is one of the UK’s most popular poets. The Catenary Wires comprise:Amelia Fletcher, Rob Pursey and Ian Button. Rob took thirteen of Brian’s poems and created melodies and arrangements, which are then played by a full band.

Martha Wainwright is beginning again.

Nigel Planer was an original member of the comedy groups at the centre of the ‘Alternative Comedy’ movement in the 1980s and starred in the seminal TV series The Young Ones, and The Comic Strip Presents.

Voted Musician of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards 2023, and with a career spanning several studio albums and numerous high profile collaborations, her ‘crystalline’ and ‘intoxicating’ vocals have enchanted audiences around the world.