Thanks to his Internet Fan Club Midnight Voices he is gigging
again
Singer/Songwriter PETE ATKIN makes a special guest
appearance at Brinklow's
Wurzel Bush Folk Club on Friday 8th December (
Doors open at 7-30pm. The
evening starts at 8-15pm.)
Everyone
knows that the multitalented Clive James is a television
personality, a poet,
a novelist and a literary critic, but fewer are aware
that what he describes
as his 'most intense creative endeavour' was his song
writing partnership
with Pete Atkin. Their six albums achieved cult status
back in the seventies
but with the most wonderful reviews never quite
delivering the record sales
they deserved.
Pete continued to write, contributing some of his own
songs to TV, and after
a thorough grounding in light entertainment production
for BBC Radio 4 he
eventually established himself as Head of Network Radio,
South and West. He
now works freelance, still mostly in radio production for
the Beeb, for whom
he produced the epic award-winning series , This Sceptred
Isle, written by
Christopher Lee and narrated by Anna Massey.
The
Atkin and James partnership is back in the public eye and was the
subject of
a recent radio 2 programme Smash Flops - It is also becoming an
amazing
Internet success story. Thanks entirely to some fans creating a
web-site at
and an e-mail chat line 'Midnight Voices' in 1996.
Subsequently they
contacted Atkin at the BBC, and a sell-out comeback gig was
arranged,
advertised entirely through the web. Since then there has been a
series of
Pete Atkin gigs at various venues around the country. (
Pete's Belgium
concert at Theatre 'De Lijsterbes', Kraainem on Monday
18th December has
already sold-out.)
The web-site, has prospered, with
hundreds of loyal Atkin / James fans from
across the globe helping to create
its content. The site has the lyrics of
the songs, as well as pretty well
everything you need to know about the song
writing team and their subsequent
careers.
The monthly folk club takes place at The Royal British Legion
Club, Heath
Lane, Brinklow nr Rugby. ( 3 miles from M6 junc 2 ) Admission on
the door
£4-00 (Children £2-00)
Advance Tickets can be
obtained from the club's bar or by contacting Dave
Sampson phone 01788
832021. Web-site booking.
www.wurzelbush.co.uk
.
see also
www.peteatkin.com for photographs
etc.
Issued by David Sampson 81 Heath Lane, Brinklow, Rugby CV23
0NX.