The 11-night event, which runs from
July 18-28, also features former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion and Ian Dury’s
backing band The Blockheads.
He was a central part of the
alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s.
He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up
comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007.
Sir Andrew Motion is a
poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
During the period of his laureateship, Motion (pictured right) founded the
Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets
reading their own work. In 2012, Sir Andrew became President of the Campaign to
Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.
The Blockheads are a rock and roll
band who were originally fronted by vocalist Ian Dury as Ian Dury and the
Blockheads.
The band (pictured below) has continued to perform
since Dury's death in 2000.r
A complete event ticket is priced at £50. Individual event advance tickets
are also available, the prices vary from £7 to £16.50.
+ For more details, email: contact@llangollenfringe.co.uk,
or call 0800 1455 779.0
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