Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright
20th Anniversary Tour
Twenty years ago, Martha Wainwright stepped out of her family’s illustrious shadow and
announced herself to the world with her stunning debut album ‘Martha Wainwright’.
Featuring ‘Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole’, a song about her father, ‘Factory’ and ‘When
The Day Is Short’, it immediately proved she was a major talent to be reckoned with.
This Spring, PIAS will release this album on vinyl for the very first time. The Sunday Times
called her ‘a tour de force’, Uncut described the disc as ‘brilliant’ while Q said she was ‘a
thing of wonder’. She is all that and more and twenty years on continues to enthral both
onstage and record.
“20 years ago my life as an artist took shape when my first record was released,” Martha
recalls. “In many ways that record defined me, as well as launched me into a now over 20
year long career that has made me who I am. It was after 10 years of playing in bars,
making cassettes and EPs to sell at my shows, singing backup for my brother Rufus, falling
in love and out of love, practising, writing, singing until I could barely sing anymore, partying,
playing with musicians and listening to great artists, working with my ex-husband in the
studio for 2 years, all that created this first record.”
“20 years later, with 6 other albums under my belt, 2 kids and a career that is chugging
along, I can safely say my first record paved my way forward. On March 21 st we will release
the record on vinyl for the first time ever as well as digitally release unheard songs, outtakes
and early material from that 10 year period of discovery that led to my first record. There will
be a tour with a few great musicians, where I’ll play the record in its entirety as well as a few
new songs- there’s no 48 year old me with the 28 year old me.”
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 200,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community.
Two poets from different planets crash land onto stages across the U.K and Ireland, making a poetic and comedic show greater than the sum of its parts....(never ask a lady the sum of her parts). Expect poems, puns, laughter and tales from these two brilliant wordsmiths.
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.
Graham Nash, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy award winner, will perform songs spanning his sixty-year career from The Hollies to Crosby, Stills and Nash, to CSNY and his beloved solo career.
Whether he’s opening for the Libertines or reciting Georgian ballads down your local, Luke Wright is adept at taking poetry places it doesn’t normally go.