Attila's 30th Anniversary Tour, September-November 2010
Attila the Stockbroker started as a punk bass player in 1977, took his
inimitable stage name in 1980 during a short stint as a stockbroker's clerk
(they hated him, he hated them) and did his first gig as Attila at Bush Fair
Playbarn in Harlow on 8 Sept 1980 supporting The De-Fex, The Condemmed (yes,
2 'm's) and The Unborn Dead. He still has the poster!
Since then he's done about 2,700 more in 24 countries - at every conceivable
type of venue, ranging from the Glastonbury Festival (every year since 1983)
and countless other music and literature festivals, arts centres, rock
venues and real ale pubs in the UK, Europe, America, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand to radical squats and autonomous centres in Germany, Switzerland
and Austria, 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. And
he's even more fired up now than when he first started!
He'll make you roar with laughter and seethe with anger as he chronicles the
last 30 years via the huge amount of material he's written from then to now,
personal, local, national and international from the Falklands War and
the Miners' Strike to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Thatcher, the rise of
the European Far Right, the war in Iraq and his tribute to his late mother
who died in June after a 6 year battle with Alzheimers. Interspersed, as
ever, with some silly and occasionally very rude bits about dead cats and
dirty sleeping bags.
If you have a favourite Attila poem or song, he's taking requests too - he's
earned a living as a poet for 30 years and he wants you to join in the
celebration!
"Whether he's ranting a poem or bashing out a song, there's something
majestic about Attila in full flight" (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 4)
Here are the tour dates.
