Is one of the UK’s
best known live/performance poets.
His career as a live poet over 19 years has spanned the worlds
of rock-n-roll, publishing, feature film, Theatre, TV and
Radio.
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Commissions from: News
Night, The Today programme and the Guardian newspaper.
Radio 4 Pick of the Week success with: Ladbroke productions
commission for a new folk ballad in The Loneliness of the
Goal-keeper and The Thong, performed on Radio 4’s
Bespoken Word.
Continuing success with his live shows including two runs
at the Soho Theatre and a rolling regional tour of Modern
Cautionary Tales for Children.
Repeated Radio 2 broadcasts (Radcliff and McCone) of his
poem for Keith Richards- If Your Gonna Go Keith, Don’t
Do It Like That.
Sony Gold award success with BBC Radio 4's Saturday live
You Tube ratings as top ten highest rated comedy performer
for twenty weeks in UK. With over 100,000 hits on his you
tube site.
UK release, of Roland Joffe’s 2000 Film. Vatel with
Murray in a lead role Opposite Gerrard Depardue.
*Murray Lachlan Young
Made his name on
the underground music and Cabaret scene in the mid-nineties in London.
His first proper gig was a residency on Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope.
His live style as a stand-up poet capable of transfixing audiences
with a unique stage presence and a satirical angle on the pop zeitgeist
brought him to the attention of the music industry.
His
first project after signing a deal in 1995 with Herb Albert and
Jerry Moss’s new label ALMO SOUNDS, Murray was put together
with the unsigned band Morcheeba to record the now legendary Trip
hop version of Simply Everyone’s Taking Cocaine. After this
he worked on his first studio Album with Electro punk outfit Shriekback
producer Marcus Dravs. Soon after this, Murray was given his own
series on MTV USA recording a series of short films for the American
market.
Success in the BBC2 coverage of Glastonbury moved his profile
higher and as the press caught wind that he had signed an unprecedented
million pound plus record deal with EMI UK he became a headline
international media story.
Murray was given a BBC two special with Vice and
Verse plus a deal for publication of his collection of poets entitled
Casual Sex and Other Verse by Transworld Books. A writer performer
role in a high budget advertising campaign for Virgin Atlantic
and as Gallows poet in the cult classic movie Plunkett and McClain.
He toured with the pet shop boys, The Pretenders, Julian Cope
and Morcheeba.Released three studio albums working with Shriek
back, Brix Smith, Martin Chambers (Pretenders), Jonathan Perkins
(Spiritual Cowboys) and multi-platinum producer Chris Thomas and
Jools Holland. Played the main stages of numerous pop festivals
including Glastonbury, Phoenix and ‘T’ in the park.
His work has been released in: Italy, Holland, Germany and USA.
Other work includes, Commissions
from:
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre,London - to write and perform
various pieces including a prologue to the Golden Ass.
Brunell University - for a series of poems to be performed to
music composed by Peter Wiegold based around the work of William
Blake.
Murray is currently a resident poet on the
Sony Gold award winning radio 4 Saturday live program.
He is touring a triple five star-reviewed family show Modern Cautionary
Tales For Children.
Writer of C’scape Dance Company’s current touring
show. The highly acclaimed dark, Cornish dance comedy- Enjoy Your
Stay
Writing a memoir- the strange case of the million pound poet.
Releasing his children’s comedy poem book The Nine Dead
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*Tabloid headline
poems x2
Debonair debaucher dead in defunct
Didcott disco
Garrotted Gastronome with Gibbon gland in glass gazebo
