To all my friends and fans in PORTUGAL….OLÁ!!!
Very much looking forward to my solo tour of Portugal in March.
I shall be playing:
COIMBRA March 5th
(tickets: http://bilheteira.fnac.pt/…/RICHARD-STRANGE-%7C-AN-ACCENT-W…)
…..additionally I shall be delivering a lecture on Creativity at the Colegio das Artes, Coimbra with my friend Professor António Olaio on March 8th at 11.00
Come and say hi.
Photo of Richard Strange by Chris Walters
“An Accent Waiting To Happen”
Richard Strange’s critically- acclaimed one-man show will be touring the UK and Europe in Summer/Autumn 2017.
Featuring readings from his memoir, songs, film clips and scurrilous stories from his 40 years working in music, film, theatre, TV and the Arts.
Friday July 28th The Kino, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex
Saturday November 18th Salão Brazil,, Coimbra, Portugal
Wednesday November 22nd Kardomah, Hull
Thursday November 23rd The Castle Inn, Manchester
Saturday November 25th Kunst Gallery, Belper, Derby
Tuesday November 28th The Musician, Leicester (with Lily Bud)
Wednesday November 29th Vout-O-Reenees, London (with Lily Bud)
(tickets for London show only available here: www.richardstrange.com/mail-order)
“18 years after first meeting him, just thinking about Richard still reduces me to a state of near hysteria…and terror. He restores one’s faith in the ability of the human spirit to soar.”
James Nesbitt
“Strange must surely be the funniest man in London…It is impossible to spend any time within his looming majesty without being engulfed in gales of health-inducing mirth and a sense of fraternal bohemian bonhomie long lost to our crassly commercial times.”
Adrian Dannatt, The Art Newspaper
The press said :
The Independent: “A seminal figure at the crossroads of art, music, film and counter-culture”
The Tatler: “Richard Strange passes the kool acid test with psychedelic colours”
Esquire: “A hilarious romp through the last 30 years of Pop Culture, as charming and amusing as the man himself”
Time Out: “This extraordinary memoir is gloriously indiscreet”
Evening Standard: “Sharply opinionated about all that he encounters, he has the essential characteristic of self-deprecation when it comes to his role of hero in the story of a life. (This is) a very particular social history, which illuminates some of the most interesting nooks and corners of the alternative lifestyles which bloomed and withered in such profusion during the second half of the twentieth century”
The Art Newspaper: “Strange is perhaps the only figure alive who has traversed so many art, performance and music movements. He can really understand the complex interplay between the elements of glamour, trash, provocation and outrage within British culture for the last 30 years. This book is the least academic, but most intelligent and entertaining analysis one could hope to read of a very specific London milieu, whose ramifications and rewards extend across the Western world.”
Mojo: “Strange is a cultured, gregarious chap who moves through London’s gilded salons observing his peers’ foibles. He observes the glitterati with a witty eye.”
And on Radio and Television too………
Ned Sherrin, BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends: “A fascinating and very amusing read”.
Robert Elms, BBC Radio London Live: “What a life!”
Jools Holland, BBC TV Later With Jools Holland : “An extraordinary memoir of an extraordinary life”
George Melly: “A good read. Wonderfully funny and well written.”
Peter Curran, BBC London Live: “A fantastic read. Wit and truth writ large.”
James Whale, Talk Radio: “The best autobiography I have read in a long while”
What else has Richard Strange done?
Richard Strange has been robbed by The Sex Pistols
Richard Strange has sung the baritone part of Frank Zappa’s opera 200 Motels at the Royal Festival Hall
Richard Strange has been personally signed to Virgin Records by Richard Branson
Richard Strange has executed John Cleese in five different ways in just two days
Richard Strange has received a round of applause from Tom Waits
Richard Strange has spent a year digging a grave with James Nesbitt
Richard Strange has sung a duet with Twiggy
Richard Strange has trashed an art gallery with Jack Nicholson
Richard Strange has dribbled over Christian Slater
Richard Strange has wrestled with The Undertaker
Richard Strange has played cricket with Imran Khan
Richard Strange has knocked out a London Showbiz journalist with a single blow, and been rewarded with a bottle of champagne
Richard Strange has sold dirty videos to Bob Hoskins
Richard Strange has paid Depeche Mode £15 to play a half hour set
Richard Strange has asked John Lennon to do him a favour
Richard Strange has cooked shepherd’s pie for Mariella Frostrup and spaghetti with Sophia Loren
Richard Strange has had a song on Plastic Bertrand’s Greatest Hits album
What they say about Richard Strange:
Paul Morley (Broadcaster): “In my Version of Rock History, Richard Strange looms a lot larger than Pete Townsend”
Joe Elliott (Musician, Def Leppard): “The Doctors of Madness were the best! Blue hair, sequinned eyelids, a guitar that spelled out “KID”, space-age vaudeville that tipped this 16-year old kid over the edge! One of the most original songwriters & performers of my generation.”
James Nesbitt (Actor): “12 years after first meeting him, just thinking about Richard still reduces me to a state of near hysteria…and terror. He restores one’s faith in the ability of the human spirit to soar.”
Vic Reeves (Comedian) “If you have never heard (Richard Strange’s band) the Doctors of Madness, you should. Musically they are the Velvet Underground, New York Dolls with shades of glam, hippie, prog and punk all rolled into one, yet are still totally original. Vastly underrated, they should have been huge. Pure genius”
Damien Hirst (Artist): “It’s a Strange world”
Shane McGowan (Musician): “Richard Strange is a diamond geezer”
Simple Minds (Band): “The Doctors of Madness-Now There was a Band”
Jay Jopling (Art Dealer): “Richard –Stranger than Fiction”
Depeche Mode (Band): “What’s really looking forward is what’s happening at Richard Strange’s Cabaret Futura, not us.”
Sam Taylor-Wood (Artist and film director): “Richard is the best gargoyle in town”
Julian Cope (Musician and writer): “When Ziggy shagged all of Amon Duul 2 at the Berlin premiere of “A Clockwork Orange”, their divine progeny was undoubtedly Richard “Kid” Strange’
James Fox (Writer): “Richard Strange can do most things with a maniacal twist, and most cleverly, with unmatched originality: he can sing, write songs, he can act, he can show off like a six year old and he has the most dangerous sense of hilarity, sustainable in moments of deepest solemnity.”
Adrian Dannatt (Critic): “Strange must surely be the funniest man in London…It is impossible to spend any time within his looming majesty without being engulfed in gales of health-inducing mirth and a sense of fraternal bohemian bonhomie long lost to our ambitious and crassly commercial times.”
“Smoke and Noise”
Tuesday 17 May, The Pheansantry- 7.30pm
The Hay Festival
Saturday May 28th
Sky Arts Studio 10pm
Book Here http://www.hayfestival.com/p-3442-melinda-hughes-and-jeremy-limb.aspx
Intelligence Squared comedy
CADOGAN HALL
Monday 13 June
Book Here http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/maz-jobrani
Private Party Sutton Golf Course
Wednesday 22nd June
The Pheasantry, Kings Road, Wednesday 26 Jan 2011
Cabaret dinner Elcot Park Hotel, Newbury 21 January 2011
Private Party Theo Fennell 16 Dec 2010
Private party: Theo Fennell 9 Dec 2010
Private Party: Chelsea 3 Dec 2010
Kings Head 10-13 November 2010
40th Birthday Party, Dorset, 30 October 2010
Pizza on the Park,
Launch of 11 Cadogan Gardens, Boutique Hotel, London
Opening Party, Antique & Fine Art Fair, Olympia
Ballymaloe Hotel, Cork (private Party)
Calvert 22 Gallery
The Chelsea Arts Club for The London Festival of Architecture 2008
The Jazz Cafe, Sandbanks 2008,
The City Wealth Awards 2008,
The Al Bustan Festival, Beirut 2008,
Volstead, Theo Fennel as well as many private parties 2007.
Salon Pushkine, Pushkin House