April is coolest month!

*
Joel Stickley and I have finally got round to recording our podcast. I've heard people wax lyrical about how seeing something truly amazing inspired them in their own careers, eg " I saw Pele play when I was a lad and it inspired me to become a professional footballer." Pah, faced with such genius I'd be put off. What inspired Joel and I to do this podcast was the sheer banality of the other podcasts by comedians we'd heard. We thought "we can be that banal." And Lo, here we are.

The podcast is called Joel Stickley and Luke Wright Practice Being Spontaneous and you can subscribe via iTunes

or listen online at my website

*
This Saturday (18 April) I'm on Saturday Live - 9am, Radio 4.

*
I'm also doing some gigs this month:


Friday, 17, April, 2009 | 7:00pm
Bush Hall Presents … with Stephen Merchant - Bush Hall - London
Bush Hall,310 Uxbridge road, Shepherds Bush, London, UK w12 7lj

mystery headliner / stephen merchant / luke wright / milton jones / mc simon munnery.


Wednesday, 22, April, 2009 | 9:30pm
The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright - London - Hen & Chickens
Hen & Chickens, 109 St. Pauls Rd, London, UK

A very early run of this show. It's possible it won't be all finished by then, if not I'll throw in some golden oldies. It'll be an interesting hour.


Thursday, 30, April, 2009 | 7:30pm
Premieres and Poetry - London - The Poetry Cafe
The Poetry Cafe, 44 Betterton Street, London

Live musical responses to live readings from contemporary poets. 6 Composers and 6 poets
are ‘paired up’ and the resulting work is bound into a dramatic performance with orchestral instrumentalists. The poetry and the readings are separate, the music responding to the text.

I'll be doing Colonel Crampon with Ben Oliver composing the music.

Tickets: £15, £10 concessions.

*
I also begin my 3rd UK solo tour with A Poet's Work Is Never Done. Here are the dates until the end of May:

25 April ADC Theatre (for Cambridge Word Fest) CAMBRIDGE 01223 300 085

3 May Komedia (for Brighton Fringe) BRIGHTON 01273 647 100 NB (3.30pm show)

4 May Lakeside Theatre, Essex University COLCHESTER 01206 573 948
with support from John Osborne and Molly Naylor

6 May Wicked Words, Seven Arts Centre LEEDS 0113 262 6777

7 May The Brewhouse Theatre TAUNTON 01823 283 244

14 May The City Screen YORK 0871 704 2054

15 May The Merlin Theatre FROME 01373 465 949
With support from Molly Naylor

20 May Norden Farm Centre for the Arts MAIDENHEAD 01628 788 997
With support from John Osborne

*
I've got some more tour dates in late June and July, but I'm having a break after 20 May because Sal and I are expecting a baby. So in amongst all these podcasts, gigs and new shows I'm attending ante-natal classes and flicking between intense excitement and intense worry.

*
Finally, my lyric of the week is a Morrissey classic from his much derided 1995 album Southpaw Grammar:

"He thinks he got the whole world in his hands
Stood at the urinal"

Lol, as the kids are saying.

Pip-Pip

Luke.x