Les Barker tour dates announced
Les Barker is due to perform monologues, poems & parodies at the following culture emporia…
November 2015
Sat 14. Alice Cross Centre, 1-3 Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, Devon TQ14 9BT
Tel: 01626 775517 See website for details
Sat 28. The Guildhall, Donegal House, Bore Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 6LU
Tel: 01543 262223 Tickets £13.00– Doors 7:30 p.m.
This show “Idiot & Friend” with Keith Donnelly
December 2015
Mon 7. Warwick Folk Club, Warwick Arms Hotel, High Street, Warwick WCV34 4AT
Tel: 01527 401121 Tickets £8.00 — From 7:30 p.m.
Mon 14. Herga Folk Club, Pinner Green Social Club, Greenwood Hall, Rickmansworth Rd, Pinner, Middx HA5 3TJ
Tel: 07747-768 868 Tickets £8.00 — Doors 7:30 p.m.
February 2016
Sat 20. Wychwood Folk Club, The Swan, Shipton Rd, Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxon OX7 6AY
Tel: 01993 831427 — From 7:30 p.m.
April 2016
Sat 30. Upton on Severn Folk Festival
May 2016
Mon 2. Tithe Barn, Manor Farm,Church Lane, Nether Poppleton YO26 6LF
Tel: 01904 623568 — From 7:30 p.m.
Sat 21. Doncaster Folk Festival
July 2016
Mon 25. Crail Festival
August 2016
Wed 3. Llantrisant Folk Club Pontyclun Institute Athletic Club, Castan Rd, Palalwyf Ave, Pontyclun CF72 9EH
Tel: 01443 226892 Tickets £8.00 — Doors 7:30 p.m.
October 2016
Fri 21. Ley Arms Folk Club, Kenn, Devon EX6 7UW
Tel: 01392 210983 Doors 7:30 p.m.
December 2016
Sat 3. Bradfield Village Hall, The Sands, Low Bradfield, Sheffield S6 6
Tel: 0114 285 1227 — Doors 7:30 p.m.
Fri 9. Potteries Folk Club Foxfield Railway Station, Caverswall Rd, Blythe Bridge, Staffs ST11 9BG
Tel: 01782 616015 Tickets £10.00 — Doors 7.30 p.m.
Les Barker writes strange poems and comes originally from Manchester, but he’s now Welsh. He was an accountant before he became a professional idiot. A well known style icon Les always cuts a dash in the world of fashion where he is much respected as a leading exponent of the cardigan.
On the poetry front and in spite of the poetry police his most famous works include The Shipping Forecast, Jason and the Arguments, Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower, Captain Indecisive, Spot of the Antarctic, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, Cardi and Bloke, Up the Creek Without a Poodle, Have You Any News of the Iceberg, The Lemmings Reunion, The Missing Persian’s File and The Lost Elephants of Denbigh especially Dr Rowan Williams version. Listeners to BBC Radio4 will be familiar with the work of Les Barker through his recent appearances on Wondermentalist Cabaret and Word of Mouth.
All profits from Mr Barker’s series of CD’s Guide Cats for the Blind go to raise funds for the British Computer Association of the Blind