[bcab] Les Barker Poet, Professional Idiot and Poet Laureate?

FAO Clive!  Got this great info yesterday on Les Barker's 2009 UK tour, Guide 
Cats and BCAB get a 
great mention.

All the best, Leon Gilbert
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk .
(Currently undergoing redevlopment)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Tynan Media"
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:11 PM
Subject: Les Barker Poet, Professional Idiot and Poet Laureate?


Les Barker

www.pattynanmedia.com/452/515.html

Les Barker Is Due To Perform Monologues, Poems & Parodies At The Following 
Culture Emporia

FEBRUARY 2009.

Sat 21 The Village Hall, High St, Sutton, Sandy, Beds SG19 2NE
Tel 01767 260041 Tickets £10.00 - From 7.30 p.m.

Thurs 26. Boar Hound, 37 Brook Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 7AD
Tel: 01625 614791 Tickets £10.00 - From 7.30 p.m.

MARCH 2009.

Sun 1 The Sun, Sun Street, Hitchin, Herts, SG5 1AF
Tel 01462 812391 Tickets £12.00 & £10.00 -- From 7.30 p.m.

Tues 3. The Folk Cellar, Central Theatre, 170 High Street, Chatham, Kent, ME1 
4AS
Tel: 01634 338 338 Tickets £8.00 -- From 7.30 p.m.

Fri 20. The Conservative Club, Railway Road, Leigh, Lancs, WN7 4AX
Tel: 01942 674868 Tickets £10.00 -- From 7.30 p.m.

APRIL 2009

Thurs 2 The Labour Club, 12 Belmont Rd, Whitstable, CT5 1QP
Tel: 07768 702153 Tickets £7.00/£5.00 -- From 7.30 p.m.

Mon 6 The Brown Jug, Sandbeds Road, Shortheath, Willenhall, WV12 4EY
Tel: 07881 752656 Tickets £5.00 -- From 7.30 p.m.

MAY 2009
Thurs 14 The Maudslay, 190 Allesley Old Road, Coventry, West Midlands, CV5 8GJ
Tel 07983 590050 Tickets Price: £8.00 / £7.00 in advance From 7.30 p.m.

Sat 16 Berwyn Festival, The Ceiriog Centenary Hall, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, 
LL20 7LD
Tel: 01691 600310 Tickets £2.00 Entrance Fee -- All Day Festival Of Music, Art 
& Food

Mon 25 Chippenham Folk Festival, The Cause Music and Arts Centre, The
Causeway, Chippenham,  Wiltshire, SN15 3DD,
Tel: 01249 657190 Tickets Various Via www.chippfolk.co.uk
<http://www.chippfolk.co.uk/>

JUNE 2009

Sat 6 Folk on the Coast Festival, The O.C Sports and Leisure Club, 28 Bridle
Road, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 6AR
Tel 0151 652 0734 Tickets £15.00 All Day £25.00 From 7.30 p.m.
www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com <http://www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com/>

AUGUST 2009

Sat 1 Concert For 'The Railway Society', Station Yard, Machynlleth, Corris,
Mid Wales SY20 9SH
Tel: 01823 323106 Tickets £10.00 - From 7.30 p.m. (Venue To Be Advised)

DECEMBER 2009

Fri 4 Milverton Music Club, Victoria Rooms, Fore St, Milverton, Taunton,
Somerset, TA4 1JU
Tel: 01823 400416 Tickets £5.00 - From 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.  His most famous poems 
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', 'A Cardi and Bloke', 
'Up the Creek 
Without a Poodle' and 'Have You Any News of the Iceberg.'

To hear Les and find out more about the Guide Cats series visit
www.pattynanmedia.com/452/515.html

New Guide Cat's CD For 2009

The new Guide Cats CD has now been recorded and will be available later this 
year.

Petition for Poet Laureate

Les says, "Here's an unexpected development. I'm not sure I'd want the job and 
I'm fairly sure they 
wouldn't want me to have it.   Anyway the petition is available via the 10 
Downing Street website."
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/LesBarkerPoet/

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The Guide Cats CD's Are Available To All Recipients Of This Press Release

OSMOCD 020 Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 1. - The Songs & Poems of Les Barker

OSMO CD 032 Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 2. - The Missing Persians File

OSMOCD041 Guide Cats for the Blind Vol. 3. - Top Cat, White Tie & Tails

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