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‘ Thirty-one
years ago we sat next to one another in Miss Fisher’s
Maths class. Twenty-five years ago we were the whole of Mr
Nesbitt’s Russian class. (Andy: ‘I read War, Glenn
read Peace.’) Twenty-three years ago we discovered White’s
Tavern, round the corner from Crane’s bookshop, where
I was the world’s skinniest Santa. About fifteen years
ago we said, You know, it would be great to do a gig together
some time. And this is it. (Come on, it used to take us five
phone calls just to meet for a pint.) In between times I had
a dream where I was drumming with Andy’s band. A great
dream. Then I remembered I couldn’t drum. So no drumming
tonight. Just songs and poems and bits out books. In fact,
that’s what we’ll call it: Andy and Glenn do songs
and poems and bits out of books. In White’s’
Glenn Patterson |
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Glenn Patterson is one of the North’s foremost
novelists whose recent novels include No 5, The International
and the just published ‘That Which Was’
Andy White, now resident in Australia, has
scored major Irish, UK and European success with a string
of albums from Himself and Out There to his latest release
Boy 40 and the poetry collection ‘The Music of What
Happens’
Tickets
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