2008 Went a bit pear shaped!
From the last week in August I had to shut up shop! Will be back in January 2009 with the 10th Anniversary Shout Gig at Kings Place see www.theshout.org.
Then the Vortex on January 31st & March 28th with Annie Whitehead, Dorian Ford, Max de Wardener and Winston Clifford.... See www.vortexjazz.co.uk. Then Gigs with Variety Lives with Dorian see www.varietylives.com.
Some things in 2008
Spring 2008 CELEBRATING LINDA SMITH' TOUR. With Dorian Ford on the Piano
A review...
EVE STEBBING
10 March 2008
Norwich Playhouse
...And a gift for the quirky visual gag: "Models, they're so thin you could play the theme tune from The Third Man on their ribs."
...Her friends told of comedy for the miners during the strikes ("I think they'd have preferred bingo"), creaky village hall gigs and Linda's first steps into Radio 4. We also learnt about her passion for left wing ideals (Ian Gibson, MP was there with his memories of her) and we even got to hear her favourite songs - Etta James numbers mixed with Elvis Costello and Nina Simone all sung by the gorgeously talented Carol Grimes.
TUC BENEFIT 5TH YEAR OF SING FOR JOY... Another year with the group and this year the wonderful John Hegley headlined our fund raiser. Another sold out evening.
With The Shout in July. Opening event at Stimmen Festival in Loerrach, Germany. Then they went off to work in Norway Austria & Gemany this Autumn but I could not be with them... see the Shout site... www.theshout.org.
& SOME JAZZ FESTIVALS IN JULY.
SWANAGE
VORTEX BIG SKY
EALING BLUES FESTIVAL
A selection of work, 2004 - 2007
U.K. Funk All Stars
2006 and into 2007
The Jazz Cafe, London; Stratford Circus, London; The Dome Brighton; The Barbican London; Soul Britannia; BBC 4; T.V. appearances followed by U.K. tour.
The Shout
2006 and into 2007
Stand
performed by The Shout
Holocaust Memorial Day
at Theatre Royal Newcastle.
2006, December
A Day In The Life Christmas Show
DeLa Warr Pavilion Bexhill.
2006, July
We Turned On the Light
by Orlando Gough, libretto by Caryl Churchill
performed by The Shout
at The Proms at the Albert Hall.
2006, August
Road to Nowhere
Mayor of London Festival
at London Trafalgar Square
2003 - 2006
The Shout Perform
The National Portrait Gallery
2005
Fallen Fruit
premiered at the Canterbury Festival
2004
Lip
written by Orlando Gough, Richard Chew & the Shout
directed by Emma Bernard
Tour UK
2000
Shift
with The Crouch End Festival Chorus
at the Royal Festival Hall, London
Sunday 11th July 2000
Tall Stories
music and lyrics by Orlando Gough and Richard Chew
direction by Rufus Norris
design by Katriona Lindsay
lighting design by Giuseppe Di Iorio
toured UK Europe & the U.S.
Concerts in Europe Uk & the U.S.
Other Work
2005 - 2006
The Whaletone Opera
written and directed by Makoto Nomura and Hugh Nankivell
Japan, April 2006
Huddersfield, 2005
2005, May
The Singing River
by Orlando Gough
directed By Tom Ryser
Theater der Welt Stuttgart, Germany
2004
Tour in UK to promote Mother C.D. (recorded in spring 2004)
2004, July
Rites Of Passage
written by Richard Chew
London Greenwich & Birmingham Symphony Hall
2004, July
Un-Earth
Bosnia to Birmingham: Stories From A War
written by Richard Chew
premiered at Mac, Birmingham
Thursday 22nd-Sunday 25th July 2004