I’m heading off on tour next year with a brand new solo show, in which I’ll be reading poems from my forthcoming book ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’.
The tour starts in September. Tickets have gone on sale at most venues today. You can find out more here: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Sounds Made by Humans – an album of my poetry put to music by the fabulous Catenary Wires – can now be listened to on Spotify, iTunes and those other streaming platforms.
“A contender for album of the year.” Backseat Mafia “An instant cult classic. 5/5” Louder Than War
And if you like what you hear, you can hear it played live this autumn when we’re heading off on a UK tour. There will be music, poems, mugs, tea towels, and somewhere to sit down (should you want to). We can be found in the following places …
12 Sep: RAMSGATE: Music Hall 30 Oct: BANBURY: Mill Arts Centre 1 Nov: LONDON: Bloomsbury Theatre 3 Nov: NORWICH: Norwich Arts Centre 4 Nov: STAMFORD: Corn Exchange 5 Nov: MILTON KEYNES: The Stables 6 Nov: BRIGHTON: Komedia 12 Nov: WORCESTER: Huntingdon Hall 13 Nov: NOTTINGHAM: Metronome 14 Nov: SWANSEA: Grand Theatre 15 Nov: BRISTOL: John Wesley’s Chapel 21 Nov: MANCHESTER: Halle St Peters 22 Nov: OTLEY: Courthouse 23 Nov: CHORLEY: Chorley Theatre 24 Nov: LIVERPOOL: Royal Philharmonic 25 Nov: SHEFFIELD: The Foundry 26 Nov: GLASGOW: Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) 27 Nov: NEWCASTLE: The Pilgrim 28 Nov: POCKLINGTON: Arts Centre 4 Dec: HERNE BAY: King’s Hall
And onto today’s climate forecast, where we can expect to see a prolonged spell of inaction, interspersed with patches of hazy promises across many areas.
Over Westminster and other centres of government, a build-up of hot air will cause inactivity to soar to record levels over the coming days, in spite of the high pressure.
Elsewhere, a front of chronic misinformation will sweep in from the east, bringing with it a thick band of climate change deniers and the chance of scattered falsehoods,
while powerful gusts of idiocy and ignorance look set to blow across social media. Outbreaks of ‘We just got on with it in 1976’ and ‘It’s called the British summer, mate’ are likely.
I’ve been collaborating (well, having fun) with a brilliant band, The Catenary Wires, who have very cleverly put some of my poems to music. The result is an album of thirteen songs to be released on 9th May on Skep Wax Records. It’s called ‘Sounds Made by Humans’.
It can be pre-ordered now on vinyl and CD here: https://linktr.ee/brianbilston and it will also be available for streaming and download.
The LP features some of my most popular poems ‘Alexa, what is there to know about love?’, ‘She’d Dance’, ‘To Do List’, ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adulting’, alongside many more timeless, toe-tapping classics.
The album can be pre-ordered now on vinyl and CD, and includes a full colour insert with lyrics, illustrated by Elodie Ginsburg. It will also be available for streaming and download. Some places where you can pre-order:
We’re really proud of it; so much so that there are plans afoot to take it on tour in the UK in November. I’ll share details of those dates with you when confirmed.
*The Catenary Wires are a group comprising Amelia Fletcher, Rob Pursey and Ian Button. Their critically acclaimed third album ‘Birling Gap’ was released in 2021. Since then, they have been focusing on their other bands, playing around the world with Heavenly (icons of the 90s indiepop scene) and Swansea Sound.
