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'One of my all-time heroes - he's such a talented bloke, I could kill him' Mike Harding
'Like a couple dancing the tango' 4* Julian May, Songlines
'Very fine' Lester Simpson
'Fantastic!' The Durbervilles, BBC Radio Leeds
'Catch these guys live ... exhilarating' Taplas
'a bunch of top-drawer world musicians ... I can't wait 'til he takes it on the road' 4* John Medd, Nottingham Eve Post
'a winning aura' Clive Davis, The Sunday Times
'tunes that range from the stirring to the unashamedly sentimental' John L Walters The Guardian
'a definite success' fROOTS
'What a great CD! I was hooked from the first track' Genevieve Tudor, Sunday Folk BBC MIdlands
'Superb' Frank Hennessy, Celtic Heartbeat BBC Radio Wales
'It's a lovely record, really lovely!' Stuart Maconie
Yorkshire words and European music. Poet, broadcaster & comedian Ian McMillan dances with composer & accordionist Luke Carver Goss of Szapora - 'Truly refreshing' Danny Thompson - in this sizzling wok of words and music. Powerful, echoing tales of milkmen, mining, heatwaves, dads, death by shanty, voices found, industrial manoeuvres, 9/11 and the late great Ronnie Barker. Improvised and constructed - for audiences, 7 to 107. CD Sharp Stories out now. www.taithrecords.co.uk
Bookings: Adrian Mealing UK TOURING 01684 540366 [email protected]

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Member Since: 4/2/2007
Band Website: theianmcmillanorchestra.com
Band Members: Ian McMillan voice Luke Carver Goss accordion/guitar/vocals Dylan Fowler guitar/mandocello/vocals Clare Salaman nykelharp/hurdy-gurdy/violin Nathan Riki Thomson double bass/flutes Oli Wilson Dickson violin/percussion/vocals

Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb. Heâ€™s Poet-in-Residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, Humberside Policeâ€™s Beat Poet, Yorkshire TVâ€™s Investigative Poet and a regular on Newsnight Review, The Mark Radcliffe Show, The Today Programme, You & Yours, The Culture Show, Never Mind The Full Stopsâ€¦ and Have I Got News For You? His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze.

www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk

Luke Carver Gossâ€™s music includes commissions for symphony orchestras, rock bands, musicals, theatres and dance ensembles. He has arranged music for choirs, song-writers, bands and theatres. He works both on his own and in collaboration with composers, writers, dancers, artists and a dazzlingly good band called Szapora.
'You've got to go and hear them play .. fabulous' Fiona Talkington, Late Junction, BBC R3
www.lukecarvergoss.co.uk

'a breath of fresh air' Sue Arnold, The Observer,

'we were aching with laughter, pricked by small bright truths' John Harvey, The North
'Unmissable' Daily Express

'Think of the early Wordsworth reading his poems' The Wordsworth Trust

'You could call him daft as a brush but heâ€™s as switched on as a power station' Yorkshire Evening Press,

www.uktouring.org.uk/ian-mcmillan
Record Label: Taith Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

First National tour excitement

Well this is our first national tour, an exciting and scary moment where we get to find out whether our mix of words and music works on the road.We've had some very positive recent press on the projec...
Posted by The Ian McMillan Orchestra on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:43:00 PST

TIMO on tour in the UK. Feb 4th-Feb16th 08

The Ian McMillan are on tour next week in the UK. Feb 4th-Feb16th.Following considerable airplay on national and local radio, and on ITV's South Bank Show; this is The Ian McMillan Orchestra's first U...
Posted by The Ian McMillan Orchestra on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:27:00 PST

Sunday 18th November

Sunday 18th NovemberThe Ian McMillan OrchestraThis is still quite a new project. Ian and Luke Carver Goss have been working together for a number of years as Flipchart and Squeezebox. Working in Hospi...
Posted by The Ian McMillan Orchestra on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:02:00 PST