http://themet.biz/news News from The Met, Bury Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:34:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 The Met welcomes Blunderbus Theatre Company with their enchanting tale, The Rainbow Fish on Saturday 13 March at 1pm. Based on the classic children’s story by Marcus Pfister, Blunderbus Theatre Company return with their brand new adaptation of this underwater adventure. Come and swim with The Rainbow Fish in her glittering ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=717 The Met welcomes award-winning folk songstress Lucy Wainwright Roche on Wednesday 10 March at 8pm. Daughter of Loudon Wainwright and half sister to Martha and Rufus, it is hardly surprising that Lucy Wainwright Roche gave up teaching in New York and entered the famous family trade five years ago. Now ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=716 The Met welcomes New York’s Preston Reed to its regular R&B Club on Friday 19 March at 8.30pm. Preston Reed has virtually reinvented how the acoustic guitar is played. Reed practices a flamboyant self-invented style, characterized by percussive techniques and simultaneous rhythm and melody lines that dance and ricochet around each ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=714 The Met welcomes jazz singer Louise Parker and her terrific quartet on Saturday 6 March at 8pm. The band covers the legends of jazz, from Billie Holiday and Ray Charles to Roberta Flack and Bill Withers. Combining a potent mix of funk and gospel, Louise Parker blends an effortless rhythmical style ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=713 The Met welcomes Publick Transport Theatre Company with their brand new physical comedy show, the Department of Smelling Pistakes on Wednesday 3 March at 7.30pm. Publick Transport presents a new comedy set in a forgotten office deep within the bowels of a Russian governmental building where two civil servants jostle for ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=712 The Met welcomes Dynamic young folk duo John Spiers and Jon Boden on Friday 5 March at 8pm. Founders of the Big-Band folk phenomenon Bellowhead, Spiers and Boden are at the forefront of the new folk revival. Admired by their peers, this multi award winning duo have picked up an award ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=711 The Met welcomes Oregon band Richmond Fontaine on Sunday 28 February at 8pm. Formed in 1994, the four-piece alternative country band has written and produced some remarkably emotive music reflecting the ups and downs of life in Western America. The band has released eight studio albums, underpinned by lead singer and ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=710 The Met welcomes, legendary Lindisfarne guitarist Rod Clements on Saturday 27 February at 8.30pm. Tyneside’s Rod Clements is one of the most widely respected figures in British folk roots, both as an artist in his own right and through his associations with such seminal figures as Bert Jansch and Thea Gilmore, ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=709 The Met welcomes back the award winning punk play Meeting Joe Strummer on Thursday 25 February at 7.30pm. Packed full of loud music, raucous comedy - and deep respect for the music and life of the great Joe Strummer, the play is an emotional blast through rebel politics since punk - ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=708 The Met welcomes back the multi award winging Scottish trio, Lau on Friday 26 February at 8pm. Formed out of the progressive traditional music scene in Edinburgh, Lau have consistently discovered new musical boundaries with their unique take on folk. The band combine the talents of Scotland’s Kris Drever and Aidan ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=707 The Met welcomes the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre with their brand new Sock Tour 2010 on Friday 19 February at 8pm. The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, literally two sock puppets, gtare the comedy double act that has to be seen to be believed. The stars of BBC 3’s Comedy ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=706 The Met welcomes Spike Theatre for the premiere of Top of The World on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 February at 7.30pm. Top of the World is a re-telling of the story behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th Century - The conquest of Everest. In 1953 beekeeper Edmund ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=705 The Met welcomes the Theatre of Widdershins with their new show The King’s Got Donkey Ears on Tuesday 16 February at 1pm. A walk in the woods should be for fun, play or for a visit to Grandma’s. Not so for Good King Orik. He went in smiling and ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=704 The Met welcomes the Caroline Chocolate Drops on Saturday 6 February at 8pm for one of only eight dates in the UK. Carolina Chocolate Drops are a young string band in the centuries-old Piedmont banjo and fiddle musical tradition. The group’s members - Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=703 The Met welcomes blues band The Hamsters who will be performing their very special Hendrix and ZZ Top show on Thursday 4 February at 8pm. Blues trio The Hamsters have long been established as a premier blues-rock attraction. Although primarily playing their own brand of rootsy rock, blues and americana, they’re ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=701 The Met welcomes back First Thursday Comedy Club, starting the new year with Mr Paul Foot, Imran Yusuf, Jo Dakin and Barry Dodds on Thursday 4 February at 8.30pm. Paul Foot was finalist in the Paramount Worldwide Search for a Star and has gained may other accolades including the BBC New ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=700 The Met welcomes Scottish super group Session A9 on Friday 5 February at 8pm. Described as the best band to have come out of Scotland in 100 years, Session A9 are a super group in the truest sense of the word. Comprising the principal musicians from Scotland’s most famous and well-respected ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=699 The Met welcomes Morecambe - Bob Golding’s extraordinary portrayal of the life of Britain’s best loved comic on Wednesday 3 February at 7.30pm. This fantastic show commemorates the 25th anniversary of Eric Morecambe’s untimely final curtain, and is a moving portrait of an affectionate lad with funny bones, a born ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=698 The Met welcomes traditional Irish music band, Dervish on Friday 29 January at 8pm. For over twenty years there has been no better way to get a taste of the traditions and the magic of Sligo, in the North West of Ireland than through the music of Dervish. They have performed ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=697 The Met welcomes The Big Figures featuring Mark Radcliffe on Saturday 30 January at 8pm. The Big Figures are a proper R & B band in the classic Dr.Feelgood mould. Radio 2 DJ Mark Radcliffe and his best mate of over thirty years PJ Walmsley bonded over the Feelgood’s debut album ... http://themet.biz/news/index.php?p=696