Attila The Stockbroker, John Otway
Attila The Stockbroker, John Otway at Dublin Castle, London
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Attila the Stockbroker and John Otway £13.20
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About the show
In 1991 Attila and Otway wrote a very silly Rock Opera, 'Cheryl' - an everyday story of Satanism, Trainspotting, Drug Abuse and Unrequited Love. It was a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, believe it or not! They're reviving it for its 35th Anniversary and performing it at Rebellion Festival and for 5 shows at the PBH Free Fringe at Bannerman's in Edinburgh. This Dublin Castle show will hopefully provo they can remember it all.
'Cheryl' will be the second half of this gig and in the first half they'll be doing part of the 'Headbutts & Halibuts' show they have done occasionally for the past three decades: basically mucking around together and separately. Otway's Hits, some poems from Attila's new book, and collaborations like the Glue Medley and the German translation of 'You AIn't Seen Nothing Yet'. Chaos.
Featuring - Attila The Stockbroker
Attila is a sharp-tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter. His themes are topical, his words hard-hitting, his politics unashamedly radical, but Attila will make you roar with laughter as well as seethe with anger.
'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).
John Otway
John first achieved notoriety with his eye-watering performance on Old Grey Whistle Test and subsequent hit single 'Really Free' in 1977. A heady mix of blind ambition and rank incompetence was to keep this microstar shining for almost two decades despite Otway's ability to turn any situation to his own disadvantage.
His autobiography 'Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure' out sold, by a factor of ten, all the records he had released since his hit, and now Otway is struggling to live up to this billing - selling out London Astoria for his 2000th gig in 1993, filling the Royal Albert Hall in 1998, and charting at number 9 with his 2002 single 'Bunsen Burner'. For John 'Two Hits' Otway, 'the future's bright; the future's Otway!
