After years of sold-out solo shows, two of the UK’s most-loved poets Hollie McNish and Harry Baker are finally coming together for a series of special gigs, reading from their latest collections and best-loved poems in some of their favourite cities to celebrate ten years of friendship.

Expect sunflowers, croissants, wolves, wellies, myths and mashed potato. A perfect date night. A perfect party of friends. A perfect book club outing. A perfect way to spend time with your slightly smutty grandma, wholesome grown-up children, or just the mate who won’t stop sending you clips of Harry and Hollie’s poems on Instagram.

Adult content warning 14+ / Book signing after the gig.

Harry Baker

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker is a poet, a maths graduate, and a new father. His work has connected with millions online, from being shared on TED.com to making people cry through their TikTok and Instagram feeds, but he thinks it is even better in person. His previous collectionWonderfulwas accompanied by a 40-date sellout UK tour two years in a row, including headlining the Poet’s Revival at the Royal Albert Hall. His new collectionTenderis published with Canongate in March 2026 alongside another national tour, and he can’t flipping wait. He lives and writes and swims and runs and takes his baby to nice coffee shops in Margate.

Spectacularly Witty” ***** (Whatsonstage)

“Blistering wordplay” ***** (Threeweeks)

“Not one syllable out of place” ***** (The Wee Review)

“The Spell Over The Audience Is Tangible” ***** (Broadway Baby)

“Simply put… The greatest performer on earth” ***** (BBC Radio 1)

He uses words like a painter uses colours’ – JOHN BISHOP

‘Harry Baker’s way with words is entirely fascinating’ – DONNA ASHWORTH

“He’s a champion.” – Ed Sheeran

“I’m in the Harry Baker fan club” – Jacqueline Wilson

Hollie McNish

Hollie McNish loves writing poems and has done since she can remember. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and to sell out Hackney Empire with her solo poetry tour, and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me – of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published five further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum, and Slug and Lobster, both Sunday Times bestsellers and inspired primarily through conversations with her grandma about sex. Her latest collection is Virgin. She tours in English, French and is trying to learn Spanish.

“Warm, relatable, smart and funny” – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay

“bold, hilarious and tender” – Salena Godden

“Her writing is sublime” – Ellie Taylor

“Makes me cry and howl with laughter” – Paapa Essiedu

“One of the best poets we have”. – Matt Haig

”Never have we needed her more’ – Stylist

“Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest” – Sarah Millican

≠≠≠Single Lock Records marks the 10th anniversary of Dylan LeBlanc’s critically acclaimed third album, Cautionary Tale, with a limited pressing of yellow vinyl.

After suffering the ups and downs of his young music career, LeBlanc had begun to spiral, slipping into a blur of booze and self-doubt.

He returned home to Muscle Shoals lick his wounds and crafted his third album,with producers Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes) and John Paul White (the Civil Wars) at the helm.

“This record is about me getting honest with myself,” says Dylan. “I had to let the guilt about the past go and find a new truth within myself. This time, I felt like I really had something to say”.

Upon its initial release in 2016, the album garnered critical acclaim:

“The third album from the Muscle Shoals singer-songwriter unfolds with the wariness of a social and spiritual outsider who broods his way to graceful defiance.” – NPR

**** in MOJO

“Shocks with unexpected new ground”

**** in Q

“ a great stride forward, a real sense of splendour and ambition”

8/10 in UNCUT

“A finely crafted exercise in country-soul classicism”

Chuck Prophet + Special Guests Stepphi and Our Man in the Field (Duo)

Chuck Prophet’s streak of more than a dozen critically acclaimed solo records stretches all the way back to 1990, when the California native first shifted focus from his tenure with pioneering neo-psych band Green on Red to working under his own name.

Since then, his songs have appeared in a slew of films and television shows, and his work has been covered by Bruce Springsteen, Solomon Burke, Heart, and a host of others. Rolling Stone dubbed him a “streetwise city kid with an eye for the country,” while Uncut proclaimed him a “renaissance-rocker,” and NPR declared that “no one can turn tales from the outer limits into catchy songs quite like Prophet does.”

His latest album ‘Wake The Dead’ topped the US Americana charts for two weeks and was followed by his biggest ever European tour with over sixteen sold out shows. He is now set to return performing as a stripped down three piece across Europe and the UK including string shows in Liverpool and Utrecht.

The Delines will be touring The Set Up  and a yet to be released new album next March in Ireland with two dates including their first ever in the wonderful Duncairn space.

The Delines were formed after Richmond Fontaine singer/songwriter, Willy Vlautin, heard singer, Amy Boone (The Damnations), sing just one single ballad. He was so moved by her voice that he secretly wrote her songs for over a year before approaching her to start a band.

Lucky for all she liked what she heard and The Delines were formed. Fontaine’s Sean Oldham on drums, Freddie Trujillo on bass, Vlautin on guitar, and multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray on keyboards and horns.

Vlautin is no stranger to critical acclaim in the US, UK, and Europe, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, Uncut, MOJO, Hot Press, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, both as a novelist with seven books under his belt, and as the former front man/songwriter of the Americana outfit Richmond Fontaine who produced eleven acclaimed studio albums.

Three of his novels have been turned into feature films: The Motel Life, Lean on Pete, and The Night Always Comes. Ursula K. Le Guin said this of Vlautin’s writing, “Willy Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing… An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf, Willy Vlautin tells us who really lives now in our America, our city in ruins.”

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