Juggling babies, toddlers on stilts and teaching young Joey to ride his first unicycle are all part of everyday life for single dad, Joe Butler, in this poignant, family love story involving the ever-changing relationship of a father-and-son double act.

Using a unique blend of physical theatre, circus skills, original songs and live music, The Battling Butlers is a study of role reversal and the inevitability of change, as the old order makes way for the new.

Based in Penzance in Cornwall, Bash Street Theatre has built an international reputation over the last 30 years, performing silent-comedy, street theatre shows throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.

The Battling Butlers is a real family affair, performed by father and son, Simon Pullum and Loki Pickering, with original live music from Julian Gaskell.

Mad Dog Mcrea blends a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their audience with their infectious songs. In constant demand and having played just about every festival and two-bit, jibe-arsed dive in Christendom, Mad Dog Mcrea are, in every sense of the word, a live, band.
Matched with the unshakable dedication of their massive and “loyal-to-the-hilt”, fan base – Mad Dog Mcrea are more than just a very popular, festival act – with five albums under their belts, they are serious and acclaimed recording artists too. December 2019 saw Mad Dog Mcrea release a 5-track EP titled ‘It’s a Sign’.
The famous purple happy bus is fired up and ready for action, and there’s room for you – jump aboard!

This fully live energetic show charts the life and career of one of the world’s iconic performers, Tina Turner, the Queen Of Rock.

Full of hits including Private Dancer, Nutbush City Limits, Proud Mary, River Deep Mountain High and Let’s Stay Together to name but a few, this show is the ultimate night out.

Starring Julie Nevada as TINA.

Powerful vocals, live band, backing singers and fabulous professional dancers with electrifying dance routines makes TINA LIVE ‘Simply the Best’ night out of the year! Please note: This production was originally titled The Tina Turner Experience

“The best West End show not in the West End” – Gary Scott, BBC Radio Kent

The Alex Voysey Blues Band presents ‘Faux Bonamassa’

‘A brilliant night – Alex Voysey’s guitar playing is out of this world’

The Alex Voysey Blues Band brings together 4 stunning musicians to reimagine the genius of Blues Titan, Joe Bonamassa. Heavily influenced by Bonamassa’s distinctive playing style, musicianship and creativity in his own performances and songwriting for several years, Alex’s new show brings together tracks from the last 2 decades of Bonamassa albums blended with his own personal style of virtuosity, exceptional improvisation and contemporary blues mastery.

Expect to hear all of your Bonamassa favourites including ‘Sloe Gin’, ‘The Ballad of John Henry’, ‘Athens to Athens’, ‘Woke Up Dreaming’, ‘Dustbowl’, ‘A Conversation with Alice’ and many, many more.

‘Alex Voysey is not only a superb musician but plays with a feeling and a passion that is true to the meaning of the blues’

‘Fantastic night and a huge talent’

www.alexvoyseymusic.com

The Trouble Notes

Sitting somewhere between traditional folk, modern classical, and tribal dance music, The Trouble Notes have travelled their way across continents in search of musical influences.

The band has proudly built its multifarious audience independently – known colloquially as “The Troublemakers”- a testament to their self-made success story that has led to major festival appearances, multiple film scores and an extensive tour schedule spanning the globe.

The core of the band consists of violinist Bennet Cerven, guitarist Florian Eisenschmidt, and percussionist Oliver Maguire. Bennet began his training as a classical violinist at 4 years old, performing in orchestras and winning soloist competitions in his youth. After graduating from University, he had a brief career working in Wall Street before leaving New York City for Europe fueled by the vision of The Trouble Notes. Bennet would meet Oliver in London in the summer of 2013, and their musical bond has held since the day they met. After an extended stint in London, they moved to Berlin where Florian joined to make them whole.

In 2017 a series of videos of the band performing on the streets in France and Germany went certified viral, amassing more than 100 million views on social media and bringing them international notoriety. They recorded their debut album Lose Your Ties at Riverside Studios in Berlin, Germany working with Lebanese producer Khalil Chahine. The album was released in February 2018 and peaked in the top 10 of the iTunes charts for their genre in France, Germany and the USA. Their music has been featured in award-winning films and documentaries, and their headline Lose Your Ties tour featured sold-out concerts in Europe and North America. They have performed live on television in the USA, Japan, Brazil, Germany and France. In 2019, they toured supporting Rodrigo y Gabriela as a part of their Grammy Award-winning Mettavolution tour.

MARTY & OLIVIA WILLSON-PIPER

A career-spanning musical journey, including songs from solo albums, Noctorum, MOAT, and The Church, realized with 12-string guitar and violin.

“After playing together in South America in 2016, Olivia and I set about discovering the possibilities of the 12-string acoustic and the violin, currently interpreting songs from my own back catalogue and adding a completely new magical layer to tunes that you thought you knew, taking them to new planets, new dimensions and new emotions.”

Best known as a member of Australian luminaries The Church (from its inception in. 1980 through to 2013), Marty Willson-Piper has been writing and performing music for almost four decades. He was also a member of All About Eve and The Saints and has co-written music with Grace Slick, Aimee Mann, Jules Shear, Susanna Hoffs and Linda Perry, among others. Today he represents one-half of Cornish duo Noctorum. Marty is also lead singer and lyricist with Swedish band MOAT and a member of Swedish Prog legends Anekdoten, joining in 2015. Since the mid-1980s, Willson-Piper has maintained a steady solo output as well, with nine releases to date.

Born in a leap year near Cologne with a Polish surname to a Swedish air hostess mother from Västmanland and a German scientist father from “Kraftwerk” city Düsseldorf (who is currently designing bricks for a future moon station), Olivia Willson-Piper started playing the violin when she was nine years old and joined an orchestra at eleven. Playing concerts in Sweden, Russia, Lithuania, Spain and Germany, she became the leader of the orchestra at 18. During her Uni years, she focused on busking, jam sessions and Jazz violin.

The Willson-Pipers have been featured on Noctorum’s fourth album, The Afterlife, are members of Atlantæum Flood and were part of MOAT’s 2021 release Poison Stream (Schoolkids Records).

www.martyandolivia.com

Do you know the story of Diana? Probably. But do you know our story of Diana? We very much doubt it.

Join Diana in heaven as she shares the untold and untrue tale of her extraordinary life.

Combining drag, multimedia, audience interaction, puppetry and a lot of queer joy – this unique celebration of the people’s princess is as hilarious as it is tasteless.

A brand new show from harbingers of theatrical chaos Awkward Productions, written and performed by Linus Karp and is created with support from Arts Council England, The Pleasance London, Lighthouse Poole and Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford.

The show follows our previous productions on how to live a Jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical ‘cats’ and Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked.

This show contains flashing lights, strong language, audience participation and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Praise for previous work:

“Really enjoyed, Linus Karp was great” – Edgar Wright
“So much FUN” – James Graham
“Funny and unsettling” – Mark Gatiss
“Twink” – Deborah Frances-White
“Hilarious” – Gay Times
“A Fringe Hit” – Time Out
“Brilliantly Bonkers” – The Stage
“Too many penis jokes” – The Guardian
BEST CABARET AT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2022 – Theatre Weekly
British Comedy Guide’s Best-reviewed Edinburgh Fringe shows 2022
“Irresistible, joyous and unmissable” ★★★★★ — The Review Chap
“Exceptionally creative and hilariously funny” ★★★★★ – Everything Theatre
“The tonic we all need” ★★★★★ — London Theatre
“Insanity at its greatest” ★★★★★ — Epigram
“Endearingly nerdy and hilariously horny” ★★★★★ — Three Weeks
“Witty, unique and sidesplittingly funny” ★★★★★ — Theatre Reviews UK
“Truly in awe” ★★★★★ – Theatre Weekly
“Highly entertaining” ★★★★★ – Theatre and Arts Review
“Why I love theatre” ★★★★½ — West End Best Friend
“Fantastically queer, outrageously fun” ★★★★½ —Theatre and Other Things London

China Crisis

China Crisis were never your run-of-the-mill 80s pop band. Formed in Liverpool by singer Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon, they distilled their love of David Bowie and Steely Dan into an exquisitely melancholy post-punk sound that saw them win their just chart rewards. Has there ever been a more wistful Top 10 hit than the charming Wishful Thinking?

Their hero Walter Becker – of Steely Dan fame – was so impressed he even became a band member back in 1985, producing and playing on the Top 10 album Flaunt the Imperfection, and returning for 1989’s hugely acclaimed Diary of a Hollow Horse. And, all the while, the hits kept rolling in… Christian, Black Man Ray and King in a Catholic Style all made their way into the UK Top 20.

£25 Seated / £23.50 Standing

Chasing Mumford – Europe’s No.1 Mumford & Sons Tribute

Established for 7 years and having supported big names such as Scouting for Girls, Toploader, The Hoosiers, B*Witched, Pixie Lott, The Wurzels and more, Chasing Mumford are a 5-piece fully live band of multi-instrumentalists with beautiful 5 part live vocal harmonies and the image to match.

They effortlessly capture the energy of the folk-rock festival sound and recreate up to 2 hours of the stadium highs and intimate simplicity of Mumford & Sons’ broad musical style, complete with lighting, pyrotechnics and 14 instruments. Their offering is sure to delight Mumford fans and indie-folk lovers alike.