Music and Performance

Friday 2 July 2010, 18.45–21.15

Comedians Stuart Silver, Adrian Shaw, Helen Arney and Christopher Green as Ida Barr bring a night of musical comedy tackling regional living, modern loving and getting down with the youth of today, compèred by award winning stand-up comedian and writer Danielle Ward.

18.45 – Stuart Silver
Selecting extracts from his big picture monologue You Look Like Ants, Stuart gets things in perspective with ukulele when you least expect it.

19.30 – Adrian R Teenbeat
Teenbeat frontman Adrian Shaw sings a dryly amusing, ramshackle set of songs in Barnsley dialect: think Alan Bennett fronts the Velvet Underground or George Formby singing Hank Williams.

20.00 – Helen Arney: Songs for Modern Loving
Helen performs a set of unusually funny, slightly skewy songs about love, taking you through the highs, lows (and really lows) of looking for that perfect someone.

20.40 – Ida Barr
Refusing to grow old gracefully, aging music hall singer Ida Barr restyles herself as rapping pensioner, performing numbers from her acclaimed albums Artificial Hip Hop, Slipped Disco, and Get Old or Die Trying.

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