ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
Hi everybody – lots and lots of gigs coming up in the next few months and a few extra bits as well...starting this Saturday at 12 noon in North London when I am taking part in a CRICKET MATCH (!!) in Walthamstow and a gig afterwards at the Dalston Social Centre, 2 Belgrade Road, N16 to raise money to help radical Iranian leftists opposed to the theocratic regime.  If you want to come to the cricket have a look at my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Attila-the-Stockbroker/20550602416?ref=s  There will be a bar, barbecue, music, stalls etc and it’s in a very good cause. Oh, and I am RUBBISH at cricket. Come and laugh at me. The gig will feature the debut performance of my ‘Swine Flu Rap’ with Porky the squeaky rubber pig (just bought from Amazon) on backing oinks! If you want to see the lyrics there’re on my Facebook page too.And there are some new songs/poems up on my myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/attilastockbroker

Following the tragic death from cancer of my old ranting poetry companero Steven ‘Seething’ Wells I’m involved in two events celebrating his life. On Sunday 13 September there will be an evening of poetry and punk rock featuring many of his old Bradford mates (Little Brother, Richard Rouska, Joolz and more, and I’ll be performing some of Swells’ poems) at the New Beehive in that fair city where he spent so many years: we’ll be having a collection for cancer research. And on Fri 4 December the Newtown Neurotics, David Quantick (old journalistic conspirator of Swells) myself and more will be at the Albany Theatre in Deptford.  Come and mourn/celebrate the life of a wonderful bloke who was a true one off and with whom I did many, many gigs in the early days.  I still can’t really believe he’s gone...RIP Swells. There is a tribute and some pictures on my main website http://www.attilathestockbroker.com

As I say I have LOADS of gigs coming up. For the first time in years I am changing things round - doing a series of gigs round Southern England with my band Barnstormer (whom I mostly only play with in mainland Europe) and in October I’m doing my first solo poetry/acoustic tour of Germany for years (where I mostly only play with Barnstormer) A gig on 16 Oct still needed - if you can help, get in touch.

I’m also putting on two more gigs in the autumn at the wonderful ROPETACKLE CENTRE in Shoreham http://www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk/
Sat 5 Sept: Phil Jeays and Rory Ellis    Fri 6 Nov:  The Men They Couldn’t Hang and my band Barnstormer. See website for details. Cheers!
GIGS (all solo poetry/music except where stated, more to come)

AUGUST
1 LONDON Walthamstow SOLIDARITY CRICKET MATCH (see details above) and gig afterwards at Dalston Social Centre, 2 Belgrade Road, N16
2 HOVE The Eclipse with Lorraine Bowen http://www.hovefolkclub.co.uk/where/index.html
6 LONDON Islington Offside Bar for Philosophy Football (sold out!)
7-9  ENDORSE IT IN DORSET FESTIVAL http://www.lgofestivals.com/

SEPTEMBER
4 LONDON Kingston Fighting Cocks with my band Barnstormer and Refuse/All http://www.myspace.com/thefightingcockskingston
5 BRIGHTON Green Party Conference (guess you’ve got to be a Green to get in!)
6 PORTSMOUTH Eastney Cellars with my band Barnstormer and Time for Action http://www.thecellars.co.uk/
10 KING’S LYNN Football Club linnet1968@googlemail.com
11 BIRMINGHAM Private gig for the Aston Villa fanzine ‘Heroes and Villains’
12 WHITBURN (Scotland) Miners Welfare (on about 9pm as part of an all day punk gig) http://www.myspace.com/skuzpatrol
13 BRADFORD The New Beehive (in memory of Steven ‘Seething’ Wells with lots of friends) http://www.newbeehiveinn.co.uk/
16 LIVERPOOL Working Class Music Festival supporting CHUMBAWAMBA http://www.workingclassmusic.org.uk/
17 RAWTENSTALL (Lancs) Spring Terrace Working Men’s Club Benefit for the Sophie Lancaster Foundation http://www.sophielancasterfoundation.com/
You may remember this awful story of a young girl kicked to death for being a Goth – her folk have started an ‘anti subculture prejudice’ movement in her memory - bloody right too, how many of us have been picked on for the way we look..I’m proud to do a gig for them
18 MALVERN Youth Centre dee_marue@yahoo.co.uk
23 LINDFIELD (nr Haywards Heath)  Stand Up Inn with my band Barnstormer http://www.myspace.com/standupmusiclive
24 WEYMOUTH Number 6 http://www.numbersixpub.co.uk/
25 BRISTOL The Thunderbolt http://www.thethunderbolt.net/
26 CHARD  Choughs Hotel with 51st State noahjburton@aol.com
29 PETERSFIELD Write Angle (short set)  petersfield.gu32@googlemail.com

OCTOBER
8-18 SOLO TOUR OF GERMANY (apart from the first and last dates which are in Belgium, obviously!)
8 ANTWERP Bar Mondial  http://www.barmondial.be
9 CASTROP- RAUXEL (near Dortmund) Bahia de Cochinos
http://www.bahiadecochinos.de/
10 BERLIN Lokal  http://www.lokal-berlin.de/
11 REGENSBURG venue TBC alectation@yahoo.co.uk
12 NURNBURG Kunstverein http://www.kunstverein-nuernberg.de/kunstverein/
13 DARMSTADT Schlosskeller http://www.asta.tu-darmstadt.de/schlosskeller/
14 FRANKFURT Gegen Buch Messe (details TBC)
15 MAINZ Hafeneck http://www.hafeneck.de
16 GIG NEEDED!
17 LUDWIGSBURG DemoZ http://www.demoz-lb.de/
18 BRUSSELS at the new Magasin 4 – playing bass with Contingent....

NOVEMBER
6 SHOREHAM Ropetackle Centre with my band Barnstormer supporting THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG http://www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk
7 REDHILL Football Club solo poetry and with Barnstormer http://www.redhillpunkrock.co.uk/gigs.html
8 UXBRIDGE Load of Hay solo (great real ale pub)  leighheggarty@hotmail.com
15 SHOREHAM Duke of Wellington with Barnstormer http://www.myspace.com/dukeofwellingtonshoreham
19 LONDON gig probably with John Hegley TBC luke@lukewright.co.uk
28 LONDON gig for Michael Horovitz’s Poetry Olympics celebrations  (more details soon)

DECEMBER
4 LONDON Deptford Albany – in memory of Steven ‘Seething’ Wells with a host of friends http://www.applesandsnakes.org
15 PETERSFIELD Write Angle (long set)   petersfield.gu32@googlemail.com

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