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The Laugharne Weekend 2009 Here’s the programme. If you click here and you have Microsoft Excel on
your computer you will be able to download a printable outline schedule There
will probably be one or two additions over the next few days. Check back in
case of any cancellations or time changes. FRIDAY The
Millennium Hall Mick Jones & Nick "Topper" Headon 9.30
– 11 pm
Stuart
Maconie 7 – 8.30 pm Stuart Maconie is an English radio presenter,
writer, journalist and critic. His books include Cider
With Roadies (about his experiences as a music journalist) Pies and Prejudice (about the
modern reality of the north of Adventures
on The High Teas: In Search of Middle The
Congregational Church Louis de Bernieres w/ the Antonius
Players & Buddug James 8 – 11 pm Louis de Bernieres was born in as one of the twenty Best of Young
British Novelists and his next novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin went on to
become a phenomenal bestseller. His latest novel A Partisan’s Daughter was
short-listed for the Costa Prize. Louis plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar and
performs regularly with the Antonius Players. At Laugharne he will be reading from his
works and playing music with the Antonius Players. Buddug James is an opera singer from
Cardigan. She will be performing Castravida
a one woman show basesd on the life of a fictional
castrato and featuring arias by Handel and Gluck . The Fountain Inn (aka The Patrick McCabe & Niall Griffiths
7.30 - 8.30pm Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, listed for The Booker Prize for his
novels The Butcher Boy and Breakfast On Pluto (both made into films by Neil Jordan).
His latest novel The Holy City was published by Bloomsbury
in January 2009“ McCabe may well be the lodestone of Irish
fiction” - New York Observer novel Stump in
2005 and was described by Time Out as “one of writers” Musical
Afternoon #1 3–7 pm Alasdair Roberts Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk
musician who has collaborated with Will Oldham and toured and trodden the boards with
Joanna Newsom, Waterson/Carthy and Smog. “Infused with the enduring
melodies and lyrical twists of ancient folk music -- mesmerising” - The Observer/ www.alasdairroberts.com
Cate Le
Bon Cate Le Bon is a singer-songwriter from Threatmantics
Brown’s
Hotel Andri Snaer
Magnason 4.00 – 5.00 pm Prizewinning Icelandic writer and Bjork collaborator
reads from his eco-conscious bestseller Dreamland: Self-help For A
Frightened Nation. Andri has written poetry, fiction, science fiction,
non fiction and plays. His work has been published in more than 20 countries.
He might chant a sample of ancient Icelandic folkmusic and read a fragment of
Bonus Poetry, a book published by On Dreamland: "Scathingly funny"
Rebecca Solnit - The Nation. " "A devastating polemic that
puts The Stable Door Stella
Duffy & Charlotte Greig 5.00 – 6.00 pm Stella Duffy was born in the has written eleven novels including her latest The Room of Lost Things and has twice
been short listed for the Orange Prize. “Always surprising, always moving and as fresh
as tomorrow” – Neil Bartlett Charlotte Greig has recorded five critically
acclaimed folk albums and written a book on girl groups Will
You Still Love Me Tomorrow ?. Her first novel A Girl’s Guide To Modern
European Philosophy was published in 2007 and is a bittersweet
coming-of-age tale. “Sparkling and funny as well as
intelligently thoughtful” – Tessa Hadley Trevor
Byrne & Denis Kehoe 3.30 – 4.30 pm Trevor Byrne was born in University. His debut novel Ghosts and Lightning will be published in June 2009 Denis Kehoe was born in Jeb Loy
Nichols & Fflur Dafydd 2.00
– 3.00 pm Singer-songwriter and award-winning Welsh language
novelist, Fflur Dafydd, reads from her first English language novel, Twenty
Thousand Saints. The furrow for over a decade with his latest album being
the excellent Days Are Mighty. He recently had a Untogether SATURDAY The
Millennium Hall Ray Davies 9.30 – 11.00 pm Ray Davies formed The Kinks in 1964 and
they have released over thirty albums and had classic hit singles such as You
Really Got Me, Waterloo Sunset and Lola. Ray has also released solo albums,
two books X-Ray and Sunset and written for television , film
and the theatre. He was awarded the CBE in 2004 Mark Steel 6.00 – 8.00 pm Mark Steel is a writer, broadcaster and
stand-up comedian. The Mark Steel Lectures have been
broadcast on both radio and television and he has a weekly column in the
Independent. His books include Reasons To Be
Cheerful, Vive La Revolution and What’s Going On. “Bolshy,
belligerent and bloody hilarious” – Francis Wheen. “If the revolution was to be led
by Mark Steel, it might not be such a terrible idea. The trouble is that his sense of humour is so good he’d be shot
in the first week” – John O’Farrell A.L. Kennedy 4.00 – 5.00 pm
CANCELLED A.L. Kennedy has twice been selected as
one of Granta’s Best of Young British novelists and her last novel Day won the
2007 Costa Book of The Year and the 2007 “Her narrative gift is
great” - The Guardian Shirley Collins 2.30 – 3.30 pm Shirley Collins is one of the great
British folk vocalists, and was a significant contributor to the folk revival of the fifties and sixties with her
solo albums and her albums with Davey Graham
and her sister Dolly. Her book America Over The Water tells of her travels
in the southern states with Alan Lomax collecting
folk and blues songs. “One of Luke Haines 12.30 – 2.00 pm Luke Haines has been a member of The
Auteurs and Black Box Recorder. His book Bad Vibes is his memoir of the Brit
Pop years 1992-97. The book shows that Haines clearly relishes-and shines
in his role as the ancient mariner at the Brit Pop party. The
Congregational Church British & Irish Lions 9.00 – 10.30 pm To coincide with this years British & Irish Lions tour of Simon Armitage 7.00 – 8.00 pm Poet, playwright and novelist Simon Armitage
published his first collection of poems Zoom in
1989, and has received numerous awards for his poetry. He has been a regular
guest on Mark Radcliffe’s show on both Radio One and Radio Two and in
2008 brought out Gig, a book which deals
with his obsession with music. The
Jon
Langford & Friends 11.30 pm the late seventies. Originally he was the drummer in
the band before finally ending up as the guitarist singer and songwriter. He has
also been a member of The Waco Brothers and The Three Johns. His artwork has been
exhibited in the Musical
Afternoon #2 2.15 – 6.00 pm Johnny
(featuring Euros Childs and Norman Blake) Brand new duo featuring the sometime frontman of Stuart
Moxham Best known as the principle songwriter in the Young
Marble Giants, Stuart Moxham has also had a long and singular solo career His
latest album The Huddle House is a collaboration with Louis Philippe. www.myspace.com/stuartmoxhammusic
Race
Horses Formerly known as Radio DBC Pierre & Dan Rhodes 12.30
– 1.30 pm DBC Pierre’s debut novel Vernon
God Little won the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Bollinger
Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing. His second novel Ludmila’s Broken
English was published in 2006 and confirmed his reputation as one of today’s most
original storytellers. “One of the most original and
seriously funny narrative voices in recent times” – The Observer Laugharne Weekend regular Dan Rhodes was chosen by
Granta as one of their Best British Novelists in their once a decade list in
2003. His latest novel is called Gold and he may well read from that or, not
inconceivably, from one or other collection of his actually quite funny short
stories. Brown’s Hotel Geoff Dyer 6.00 – 7.00 pm Geoff Dyer is one of Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi is a
hugely entertaining and illuminating tale of love, laughter and the human heart. “Quite possibly the best living
writer in Willy Vlautin & Stav Sherez 2.30
– 4.00 pm Willy Vlautin’s debut novel The
Motel Life was published in 2005. He is also the singer and songwriter of the
band Richmond Fontaine. The Times said that his latest book Northline is a portrait of small town America imbued with yearning
and empathy from a novelist and songwriter
praised for his compassion and warmth. “The
Dylan of the dislocated” - The Independent Stav Sherez’s new novel The Black Monastery is a dark and
compelling thriller set among the Greek islands and is a
blistering portrait of paradise gone wrong. “A major talent” –
James Sallis The Stable
Door Mari
Strachan & Matthew Scott 5.00 – 6.00 pm Mari Strachan’s debut novel, The Earth Hums
in B Flat, is a
detective story of life in a small Welsh town on the brink of change in the
1950s. Novelist and playwright Matthew David Scott was born
in Dylan Thomas Prize Winners: Rachel Trezise & Rachel Trezise - Rachel was the winner of the inaugral Dylan
Thomas Prize in 2006 for her short story collection "Fresh Apples" Joe
Dunthorne & Robert Lewis 2.00 – 3.00 pm and his debut novel Submarine
was published by Penguin in 2008.
Joe was shortlisted for the 2008 EDS Dylan Thomas Prize Crickhowell’s very own Robert
Lewis wrote the funniest, darkest PI novel of recent years in The Last
Llanelli Train. He’ll be reading the remarkably funny sequel, Swansea
Terminal, possibly the most booze-drenched novel ever written. Peter Finch & John Williams 12.30
– 1.30 pm Peter Finch is a poet, editor, a
sometime bookseller and latterly a travel writer. He’ll be reading from
and talking about his latest book, Real Wales, a prime slice of Cymraeg
psychogeography The
Boathouse Ray Davies
4pm Louis De
Bernieres 5.30pm SUNDAY Millennium Hall The traditional festival finale will be reprised for
the third time Jon Ronson & Alexei Sayle 6.30
– 8.30pm “He is compelling” –
Times Literary Supplement Alexei Sayle is a comedian, actor,
presenter and writer. His television work as a writer and performer
includes The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff and The All New Alexei
Sayle Show. He has written regularly for the
Observer, Independent, Time Out, Car Magazine
and Esquire. He has written two collections of short stories and three
novels, the latest of which is Mr Roberts. “Brilliant - - - - a wonderful
writer” – Sunday Herald Tu Chwith & Catrin Dafydd 4.30
– 6.00 pm Tu Chwith is a
Welsh language cultural and arts magazine aimed mainly at young adults Catrin Dafydd
is one of a new generation of authors keen to bridge the two language
cultures of Keith Allen 3.00 – 4.00 pm Llanelli born actor Keith Allen has
recently played the Sheriff of Nottingham on television and Long John Silver on stage in the theatre adaptation of Howard Marks and Rhys Ifans
1.00 – 2.30 pm Howard Marks will be in conversation with Rhys Ifans
who will be playing the part of Howard in a forthcoming film based on
Howard's book "Mr Nice". Kenfig
Hill’s Howard Marks has written two best selling books Mr Nice and
Senor Nice dealing with his life as a drug
smuggler and his life afterwards. “Howard Marks has huge charisma. He
sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone.” – The Daily
Mail Rhys Ifans is one of
the country's leading actors and has appeared in films such as " . The
Sally
Timms & Jo Bartlett 6- 7 pm Sally Timms is best known for her long involvement
with the Mekons,
whom she joined in 1986. She recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an
experimental, improvised film score), at the age of nineteen, with Pete
Shelley of the Buzzcocks.
She has released several other solo CDs, including a country album on Bloodshot, Cowboy Sally’s Twilight
Laments for Lost Buckaroos. Her latest album, In the World
of Him, was recorded with Johnny Dowd and his band. www.myspace.com/sallytimms
Jo Bartlett is the Jo in ‘It’s Jo And
Danny’, the rhythm guitar player and occasional vocalist in The Yellow Moon
Band and the co-founder of the Green Man Festival. She’s lately been
recording her first solo album and this will be her first live appearance as
a solo act. Musical
Afternoon #3 1.15 – 6 pm Richard James Katell Keineg Katell
Keineg grew up in Sweet Baboo Northwalian
born, now Edward Mugford Martin Davies 12 noon
– 12.45 “Politics
is dead. Here’s something better”. The Red Dragonhood designer,
writer, alternative economist and ‘apolitical activist’ launches
Newid - ‘Change’ in Welsh - an ‘apolitical party’
with a manifesto based upon taking power away from politicians and placing it
in the hands of ordinary people. “His is a politics of possibility, a
politics of Why Not?” – Dylan Moore, CFUK. “Either a
visionary or a Taff timewaster” – Jeremy Paxton, BBC Newsnight.
“A right bloody nuisance” – Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas,
Presiding Officer, Welsh Assembly. Brown’s
Hotel Helen
Griffin presents ‘Caitlin’. 3.30 – 4.30 pm "Caitlin"
is a one woman play which tells the story of Caitlin Thomas, wife of Dylan. Played by
renowned and
audiences alike in . Desmond Barry 2 – 3 pm Des Barry
was born and brought up in Merthyr. His first novel The Chivalry of Crime
combined the fictional story of a young gunslinger with the true story of
Jesse James. He has followed this up with A Bloody Good Friday (set in
Merthyr) and Cressida’s Bed. He’ll be previewing material form
his new multimedia project, Far South. Bruce Reynolds 12 – 1pm Bruce Reynolds was the leader of the Great Train Robbery of 1963
and stayed on the run for five years after the robbery. His new memoir is
called "The Autobiography Of A Thief". The Boathouse Simon Armitage 4pm Late Night Music 11.30 pm till
late The festival
will end with a late night music session upstairs in the Fountain Inn (the
rugby club), kicking off with a set from Miscellaneous
Attractions Browns
Hotel Jon
Langford exhibition A
selection of Jon Langford's portraits of country music legends, Pill sailors
and Welsh icons., including nifty representation of the bard of Laugharne
himself Nick
Reynolds live sculpture Over the
course of the weekend Nick Reynolds will be making whole head castings of
assorted festival attending luminaries. Feel free to gawp. |
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