Iain Matthews is a founding member of some of the UK’s great folk heroes: Matthews Southern Comfort Band, Fairport Convention, Plainsong and more. His fifty year career has been a memorable one in which his group Matthews Southern Comfort Band had a UK number one in 1970 with a cover version of Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock”. In 1979 his cover of Terence Boylan’s “Shake It” reached number 13 on the US charts, and in 2018 he published an autobiography, co-written with author and broadcaster Ian Clayton, called “Thro’ My Eyes: A Memoir’’, about his life in the music industry. This show promises to be a wonderful, career spanning event and visits The Atkinson on Wednesday 23rd August 2023.
The performance space at The Kings Arms is a relatively modest venue, essentially a large-ish room above a pub that’s well worth
Tulsa is a city that feeds the soul as much as the stomach, and Irish poet Jay Rafferty has captured its essence
Let’s drop the Hallmark card fantasies. Nature isn’t serene. It’s not here to cradle you while you write love letters to daffodils.
The Broken Spine is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry.
