Jim Bob (Carter USM) - May 11th

‘Storage Stories’ is a darkly comic fictional autobiographical novel and collection of short stories told in words and pictures that, if nothing else finally solves the mystery of what happened to all the missing boybands.

‘Storage Stories – Storage Songs’. To coincide with the book Jim Bob begins a UK reading and music tour, where he’ll read from the novel and perform songs from his back catalogue: both Carter USM and solo. He promises a slide show and bubble machines.

The Bury Fringe proudly welcomes Jim Bob for the opening night of his tour, performing at 'The Attic', Benson Blakes.

We are thrilled to announce Chris T-T will be performing as support for Jim Bob.

Chris T-T is an English songwriter who has released six albums to date and will be performing songs from his latest album 'Love Is Not Rescue' released on the 15th of March 2010.

His resumé includes shows with: Ben Folds, British Sea Power, The Divine Comedy, Elbow, Bellowhead, The National, The Walkmen, Quasi, Tom Robinson, Brakes, Frank Turner, Electric Soft Parade, KT Tunstall, Emma Pollock (Delgados), Carter USM, The Broken Family Band, Jim Bob, author Iain Sinclair, Madrugada, Hefner, Robyn Hitchcock, Ricky Ross (Deacon Blue) and many others.

£7 (+2.5% handling fee) advance - £8 on door (Subject to availability)

John Otway - May 12th

John Otway was born in Aylesbury, learned to play the violin at school and got an early taste of performing in the Aylesbury Youth Orchestra. Otway got together with Wild Willy Barrett in the seventies and they had one big hit 'Really Free' which reached number 27 in the charts in 1977. Otway and Barrett went their separate ways after a few years and Otway went on the road with many others including a band called The Europeans, Ollie Halsall, and Attila The Stockbroker.

In 1999 the BBC ran a poll to find the greatest lyrics of the millenium, and Otway was a surprise entry at number 7 with his song 'Beware of the Flowers', which came above artists like Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon and even Bob Dylan.

John Otway currently tours as a solo act; as a duo with Richard Holgarth (also of Eddie and the Hot Rods; and often with his Big Band which includes Murray Torkildsen, Seymour, Adam Batterbee and guest keyboard player Barry Upton. Throughout 2005 and 2006 Otway teamed up with The Hamsters and Wilko Johnson as part of The Mad, The Bad & The Dangerous Tour. A DVD of the tour was released in 2007.

John will be performing at the Bury Fringe Festival as part of his 'I Did It Otway' book launch tour, with a signing session at the Buttermarket branch of Waterstones from 5.30pm prior to the live performance at the Constitutional Club from 7.30pm.

£10 (+2.5% handling fee) advance - £12 on door (Subject to availability)