Attila the Stockbroker & Rory Ellis

Contact: attila@attilathestockbroker.com

ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER & RORY ELLIS – SEPARATED AT BIRTH TOUR 2012
Attila and Rory have been good mates for ages, but have never gigged much together before.
May- June 2012 will change all that: 30 shows all over the country!

Inspired by punk, and especially The Clash, performance poet and songwriter Attila the Stockbroker has done about 2,800 gigs in 24 countries - at venues ranging from the Glastonbury Festival (every year since 1983) and countless other music and literature festivals in the UK, Europe, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to freezing punk squats in Germany to the Law Society and the Oxford Union and a hotel basement in Stalinist Albania. He’s released 6 books of poems and over 20 CDs/LPs, formerly with people like Unwins, Bloodaxe and Cherry Red Records, latterly via his own global cottage industry, Roundhead. (No cavalier attitudes!) He’s sometimes on the radio and TV, and all over the internet. He’s loud, radical, lyrical, reflective, will make you roar with laughter as well as seethe with anger and 2010 saw his 30th anniversary tour. Last year Attila showed a more personal side when ‘The Long Goodbye’, his epic poem about his mother’s six year battle with Alzheimer’s, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ on Mother’s Day and repeated on ‘Pick of the Week’, and in print form the poem has raised well over £1000 for the Alzheimer’s Society. But Attila’s not mellowing out, have no fear! He’s just released “Bankers & Looters’, his extremely topical new album, a howl of anti-capitalist rage………

‘There’s no such thing as society/ So steal and cheat and loot
Just one thing to remember/ Make sure you wear a suit!’

‘Whether he’s ranting a poem or bashing out a song, there is something magnificent about Attila in full flight’ (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 4)

Singer-songwriter RORY ELLIS from Melbourne is real, rootsy and, yes, occasionally rude (which is one of the many things he and Attila have in common!) Before picking up his guitar, Rory was a boxer and a nightclub doorman, among many other things - and there is a whole wealth of very varied experience in the songs he sings and the tales he has to tell. His style, which he calls ‘urban folk’ was melded living in a boxing gym, honed in Melbourne pubs and polished gigging on the festival circuit - he’ll give you a taste of the side of Australia which doesn’t feature in the soaps and tourism brochures! He’s released five albums to great acclaim and played at most of the major Australian festivals and at many in the UK during several previous well received tours. And his voice is truly extraordinary. “When the big fella opens up his chest and lets fly with that lusty, rumbling voice, even then it's as if he's pulling back on the reins in fear of what might happen to innocent bystanders - it's that potent. (Jeff Glorfeld,The Melbourne Age)

They may have very different styles but Attila & Rory truly compliment each other (except when they are taking the piss out of each other!) Attila will be playing some fiddle with Rory, and Rory returning the favour on guitar. It’ll be different. It’ll make you think. And above all it’ll be FUN.
www.attilathestockbroker.com www.roryellis.com

Entry: Free

Time: 4:00pm