Mark Thomas presents his new show Red Shed at The Stables this Thursday evening (September 29), which is the third part in a trilogy also featuring the multi-award winning shows Brave Figaro and Cuckooed.
The comedian and campaigner goes back to where he did his earliest public performances – in a red wooden shed in Wakefield, the Labour Club, to celebrate the club's 50th birthday.
He interviews old friends and comrades, piecing together the club's history and working with it to campaign with some of the poorest working sin the country for their rights.
What you get is a story of the battle for hope and the survival of a community in a small wooden shed.
It's part theatre, part stand-up, part journalism and part activism, which will come as no surprise at all to those familiar with Mark.
Some audience participation will figure as Mark's obsessions of community and struggle come to the fore once more.
Jane Siberry will hold court over on Stage 2, and with 14 studio albums to pluck songs from, we won't hazard a guess at the set-list, except to say we reckon material from the current album Ulysses' Purse will have scope in this live show.
Les McKeown's Bay City Rollers will play for you on Friday night (September 30) as part of his Rollermania 2016 tour which will take you on a voyage back to the '70s when Les and his music-making pack ruled the charts and they became the soundtrack for a generation of teenagers.
A crowd-pleasing performance will definitely feature Bye Bye Baby, Shang-a-Lang, Remember and Summerlove Sensation.
New material will come too, seriously. A new BCR album is on the cards...
The Stables will be Puttin' on the Ritz on Saturday evening (October 1) with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra delivering from the Great American Songbook.
We are talking timeless classics that had the power to lift people's spirits during the Depression era. Special songs for special times, and vocally suss aces like Bing Crosby, Al Bowlly and Fred Astaire.
Stage 2 will be manned by Finland's Erja Lyytinen who is as happy inhabiting the traditional blues as she is in the modern side, and she's happy to bring jazz, pop and soul to play for you too.
Legend present a Tribute to Bob Marley on Sunday (October 2), so while there is no shortage of surprises there, you will get a timeless classics in abundance.
For the second time in as many weeks, the venue will be closed on Monday night, but Tuesday (October 4) will be given over to the world of Irish traditional music with Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill.
Hayes is an extraordinary talent with a unique sound and a real mastery of the fiddle.
And speaking of masters, Cahill is very much the man when it comes to the guitar.
The two players, both members of the band Gloaming, will wow you from 8pm.
Angus Bayley's Scrapbook will be live in Stage 2.
The 26-year-old studied as a scientist, but was an active pianist the whole time, and a prolific composer to boot.
His music for Scrapbook 'is both pensive and poignant, clad in a delicate timbre of horns and strings, with each tune sitting somewhere between jazz, folk and rock, underpinned by chord sequences that tell a story in their own right.'
If it's a special as it will be intimate, great times are ahead...
Visit www.stables.org to make a booking.
