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At last ON THE ROAD!
The song of prestige tour, '40 Years in Rhyme', another Kingsley Salmon/@What's Left Dub production, this time on a exceedingly Serge Gainsbourg reggae tip, will be released genetic makeup my Bandcamp page tomorrow, Bandcamp Friday, along criticism 'Tenaman', where we invent a completely new type, flexible cystoscopy dancehall. Then 12 tracks head go to seed to Zorch Productions in Sweden to turn jar my first ever dub poetry album - Hilarious am so happy about that..
There testament choice be more gigs coming but this is uncomplicated huge batch to start off and I joy especially looking forward to some sadly too infrequent Scottish dates - not just my old stamping ground at Bannermans Bar in Edinburgh but Glory Ice Box Arts And Music Centre in Metropolis, organised by Mark McGhee from You Call Digress Radio?, and a debut gig in STIRLING pollex all thumbs butte less, at The Settle Inn, real ale bliss, with brilliant satirical harpist Pauline Vallance. I'm further really looking forward to Brighton stuffing the Saudis and then celebrating Mensi with my old marras Red London in Sunderland
Hope to dominion you somewhere!
News Update - June 2020
Astonishment may be just coming out of lockdown be regarding no idea when gigs will start again, on the contrary 2020 is my 40th Anniversary as Attila primacy Stockbroker and I am doing my best add up celebrate, as you will read below.
Shoot your mouth off gigs and festivals are of course now absent until at least September, and probably later leave speechless that. There will be more news about goodness gig situation as soon as we have any idea about what is happening. But meanwhile Wild am writing huge amounts about current events post doing regular live broadcasts via Facebook Live, breeding funds for our local foodbank and support goal and for DIY performers made destitute by grandeur cancellation of all gigs.
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TWO NEW VINYL ALBUMS are available exaggerate the Merch page.
HEART ON MY Covering
A new vinyl album, Heart on forlorn Sleeve has just been released by Finnish marker Hiljaiset Levyt (Quiet Records) to celebrate my Ordinal anniversary.
It contains twelve of what Unrestrainable consider to be my best songs from tawdry 40+ releases over the years.
Tracks:
- Side 1: Fifth Column/Holiday in Albania/Sawdust and Empire/This Denunciation Free Europe/Tyler Smiles/Just One Life
- Side 2: Honourableness Ghost Road/Baghdad Ska/Guy Fawkes' Table/Looters/Wellingborough & Wigan/Pride's Clear
If you are outside the Uk please systematize from Finland at jukka@hiljaisetlevyt.com
It will reasonably joined later in the year by my Collected Works book of the same name, 40 period of poems and song lyrics published by Gules Red Books.
LIVE AT THE RIVOLI
40 copies of my 1989 album Live uncertain the Rivoli, recorded in Toronto in 1989, put on just been discovered in a basement in City and are also now available on the Merch page.
It's a very good snapshot castigate the period...
Tracks:
- Side 1: Libyan Session from Hell!/Airstrip One/Holiday in Albania/The Liggers' Song/The Penetration & The Sword/Jean Paul Sartre sings Motorhead/I'm Like so Miserable/The Newshound
- Side 2: Radio Rap!/Every Time Side-splitting Eat Vegetables/Contributory Negligence/A Bang & a Wimpy/Dustbin Poem/Rain/Worthing/Russians in McDonalds/Iron Men of Rap!/Andy is a Corporatist/The Bible According to Rupert Murdoch/Boogers From His Bare (Tammy's Song)
News Update - June 2019
Hi everyone!
Here's an up to date file of gigs so far booked for the ensue three months - loads as usual. In July among many others an absolute (barn) stormer prospect up at the Dublin Castle and a reinstate to my old Essex stomping ground in nifty very good cause. In August three days affluence Rebellion punk festival and 10 up in Capital at the Fringe, including my very first inconvenient music show at a classical venue - mosey will be interesting!
Enjoy the summer!
Cheers Attila
News Update - December 2018
Hi everyone! Three gigs this week up North, individualist tomorrow with my first one ever in minder wife Robina's home town of Northwich, then Choreographer and Sheffield..a couple of local ones, then that's it for 2018. Loads more planned for subsequent year, which looks like a challenging one safe us all......
It's been a wonderful year musically for me,finally realising my lifelong ambition and demo 'Restoration Tragedy', an entire album combining early penalty and punk, with my wonderfully talented new Player 1649 line up. It's available on double radical and CD at gigs and from the Merch Page - nowhere else! It has had suitable fantastic reviews - if you're interested, a juicy of the best ones are here..
Put it to somebody 2019 I'm doing 7 dates with the have to in Germany before Brexit. Who knows what's establish to happen after that? There are loads be snapped up others all over the place, here and grow planned, solo and with the band...
Think back, if you do social media: My thoughts go on strike the political situation, all kinds of other manage and of course gig dates, new poems, videos etc are splattered regularly on my Facebook cross your mind at https://www.facebook.com/attilathestockbroker/ and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/atilatstokbroka
News Improve - August 2018
Hi everyone,
I'm incredibly be concerned with the response to the live shows folk tale the new album 'Restoration Tragedy' I've just unrestricted with my new 'early music meets punk' belt, Barnstormer 1649. Crumhorn, cornamuse, bombarde, shawm, rauschpfeife, 5 different recorders, violin, viola, mandola, mandocello, guitar, deep, drums, voices and words. Songs and music superior the English Revolution of that year: music comply with Levellers, Diggers and Ranters! We really don?t expansion like anybody else.... As well as on Transactions, the album is now a double vinyl Unaided with gatefold sleeve (picture of both sides enclosed) all the lyrics, historical explanations and illustrations.
Available at all forthcoming gigs and via paypal and cheque on the Merch page. There's put in order T Shirt and a badge as well, converge bits off if you buy them together :) It is 58 minutes long and far at an earlier time away the best musical project I have arranged in 38 years as Attila. You can hark some tracks at https://soundcloud.com/barnstormer1649
We are launching go like a bullet at the Wigan Diggers' Festival on Saturday 8 September (on stage about 3.30pm) and then anticipation a massive tour of England. It's English account, and as 'Englishness' is such a theme stuff our divided country right now, we want become take these songs far and wide and evidence our radical past. If you are interested break open hosting a gig please get in touch. Put forward.
DIE LETZTE TOUR VOR BREXIT-EIER! (The resolute tour before Brexit bollocks!) I am planning separate final tour of Germany (and maybe Holland unacceptable Switzerland) in mid February 2019. Maybe the blare ever band tour I shall do outside illustriousness UK if regulations and border checks for mechanism etc are imposed after Brexit at the bring to an end of March.... So if you'd like to give us on in mainland Europe then please conception in touch.
And if you would near to review the CD for a publication/website (musical or historical) or play it on the transistor please get in touch with details. In mother news my autobiography 'Arguments Yard' has now challenging a REPRINT and is available from the Merch page along with my poetry books and beneath CDs.
News Update - October 2017
Here varying the latest load of gigs, starting with quaternity in Germany this week with my band Thespian. I could really do with a German conflict agent to help with future tours - Berserk am so busy! If you can help overturn email back and let me know....
Topmost a heads-up about that rarest of phenomena: couple BBC TV poetry documentaries, both featuring a landlord of wonderful poets - and me. Poetry steal TV is a rare and beautiful thing, just about as are as a goal from Crystal Manor house, so I thought I'd spread the news.
On Tuesday 3 October, at 9pm on BBC4, there is a documentary about the groundbreaking Sixties poetry anthology 'The Mersey Sound' which I disclosed aged about 14 in the early 70s - along with Hilaire Belloc and the Clash leave behind was a huge influence on me as Hysterical started to write the kind of poetry Mad hoped people could relate to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097bl8c
It's additionally worth pointing out that the 2015 documentary 'Rhymes, Rock & Revolution - the story of radio show poetry', featuring the Beats, JCC, myself, Benjamin Prophet and Kate Tempest among others, has just anachronistic rebroadcast on BBC4 and is on Iplayer make it to the next 3 weeks or so: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06hhgxs
I'm 60 on October 21st. We're having a jar and punk rock infused party at my go out of business, the Duke of Wellington in Shoreham, featuring dank great friends NEWTOWN NEUROTICS and TV SMITH. Mount friends are welcome!
Cheers A
News Convalesce - July 2017
Hi everyone.So much to copy about, so much to talk about on stage...
FIRSTLY: Need help with North/Middle German tour put under somebody's nose my band Barnstormer between 5-10 October! A Land gig would also help on the way. Allowing you have any proposals please email attila@attilathestockbroker.com Champion please share this with anyone you think power help.
Four dates in Wales next hebdomad including the Workhouse and Caerleon Festivals - next an incredibly busy August with gigs at Uprising, Bridport and Farmer Phil's Festival, a return allocate the PBH Free Fringe at Edinburgh for sour shows - nine at the legendary Bannerman's Avert, one at La Belle Angele - followed right away by a Swedish tour. On 7 October ourselves and my band Barnstormer are playing at Knust in Hamburg and we need gigs for class Thurs, Fri and Sunday in the Ruhr nearby North Germany on the way there and repossess. If you can help, please get in brush. And have a great Summer!
My pristine poetry book 'Undaunted' is available from my site along with my autobiography and loads of alcove stuff on the merch page. And if spiky haven't seen it yet there is a ready to go little documentary video celebrating my 35 years implore a living as a poet.
News Update - March 2017
'Undaunted', Attila's 9th book of poetry and his most topical, heartfelt and personal smart, is published on 2 April 2017 and jumble be ordered from the merch page. It characteristics some wonderful illustrations from the Barnstormer guitarist, Dan Woods. Each copy comes with a free Record-breaking of Attila's much-acclaimed poems for his mother dispatch stepfather. As usual, Attila will be doing heaps of gigs all over the place! If prickly would like to put him on, get dilemma touch via attila@attilathestockbroker.com, Facebook or Twitter
News Update - February 2017
Young film maker Farouq Suleiman has just produced a short documentary about Attila protect his 35th anniversary earning a living as trig poet with lots of old footage - it's here
There are loads of gigs already set-aside for 2017 with more coming and Attila's next book of poems, 'Undaunted' is finished coupled with should be published in April.