Spotlight - Last Spotlight January 20th

The Line-Up

Ian Marchant - Prose
Born a week before Elvis joined the Army, Ian Marchant is originally from Newhaven in East Sussex, and now lives in neither England, nor Wales, but Radnorshire.

Before taking up writing books, he sang in various unimaginably obscure bands, wrote up the results of horse races in bookmakers' shops and ran a large second-hand bookshop on the Charing Cross Road.
He has published six books, including two acclaimed memoir/travel books for Bloomsbury, 'Parallel Lines' and 'The Longest Crawl', which were each selected by Nicholas Lezard as his paperback of the week in The Guardian. 'The Longest Crawl' was book of the month for September 2007 in both 'The Sunday Sport' and 'The Church of England Newspaper', a hitherto undreamt of critical double.

For several years he was also the regular compere at Spotlight!

www.ianmarchant.com

David Riley - Prose
David will be reading some pubIished poems along with a mix of other work he's written. 'I write short fiction and plays. A short play of mine will be broadcast by Tin Can productions in the first part of this year. My last work at Spotlight was an adaptation for Mollie Baxter of a Norman Hadley story into a monologue.'

Stephen Price - Comedy

'Ste Price was born in 1975. Yes, I know, it's really hard to believe that he's that old. But he is. Get over it.

Despite showing a flair for acting daft at an early age (he once pretended to be a Russian on the play area of a Hoseasons' holiday park, aged 9). It wasn't until 2011 that he decided to perform in any sort of official capacity. Since that decision (the one about performing in some form of official capacity), he has tried his hand (and the rest of his body) at stand up, character comedy, improv, poetry, short plays and erotic fiction. There's literally no limit to the number of ways that he can adequately convey material.

He is very much looking forward to performing some jumble of the above at the January's Spotlight.

P.S. 'He' is really 'me'. It's 'me' writing this, but I'm pretending to be, like, a journalist or something.'

And Music:

2 Baa Chords - Music

2 Baa Chords are a Kendal based
acoustic duo with a harmonium.
They are singer-songwriters
'Magic' Keith Redfern and
Ann 'the poet' Wilson.
They perform orginal songs
written by each other and some
they have written together. They
are influenced by Ivor Cutler, The
Divine Comedy and Everything
but the Girl. You can follow their
progress at:

2baachords.wordpress.com or on their facebook page.

Chas & Ben - Music

Chas Ambler has had a long career in music and has just

released a CD, Borders of Love. In his short career, Ben Gladwin has played keyboard and drums with his own band, New Potato Scene, deputised with Guns of Navarone on keys, played guitar with Rachael and the red Socks and recently stepped in at short notice as MD for a production of Pinochio in Halifax. Ben & Chas present a programme of original material - thoughtful and melodic music.

Simon Baker - Compere