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Patti Smith Visits The Valleys!

12:20 PM GMT 27/02/2008

Patti Smith Visits The Valleys!

THE AUTHOR OF PISS Factory pays tribute the author of The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower, as Patti Smith plays the second Laugharne Weekend festival, held in Laugharne, West Wales on March 28th to 30th.

Dylan Thomas – an abiding inspiration to maverick characters and rock’n’roll voices (Robert Zimmerman’s nom de rock is famously indebted) spent the last four years of his life in the Laugharne boathouse, and he’s buried in the village’s graveyard. His deathless play-poem Under Milk Wood has inspired musicians as diverse as Stan Tracey (viz. his Britjazz opus from 1965) and King Crimson (providing the title for 1974’s Starless & Bible Black) and was reputedly based on Laugharne.

The festival celebrates Welsh literature as well as what it calls “outlaw voices”. This year, Patti Smith and Roger McGough make appearances in the boathouse itself (which holds only 24 people) as well as in the main venue. They will be joined by Will Self, Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre, actor Keith Allen, Howard Marks and Lionel Shriver plus musicians including Gorky’s’ Richard James and Patrick Wolf.

All the venues are intimate and range from a capacity of 65 to 200 people at the Millennium Hall. Weekend tickets are available priced at £50.00 but these will be limited in number. Tickets will also be available for individual performances, priced between £5 and £12. All tickets will be available in advance from www.ticketweb.co.uk.

Visit www.thelaugharneweekend.com for further details about bookings, the location and accommodation.

And here’s the kind of thing to expect from a Patti Smith poetry reading – a poignant story about the Dodo (eventually) from an Oxford gig last year.

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:20 PM GMT 27/02/2008

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  • Which valley is she visiting!?

    I knew she was coming to Laugharne, but does she have another date set for Wales, you know, actually IN a valley?

    Posted by NotAllOfWalesIsAValley at 4:36 PM GMT 27/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • RE: NotAllOfWalesIsAValley

    Right on sister. Perhaps a map of Wales would help?

    Posted by Laugharneisnotinthevalleys at 4:39 PM GMT 27/02/2008 Report Abuse

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  • Laugharne is nowhere near the reality of the valleys. It's now more of a tourist dominated, "Dylan Thomas world". A poetry themepark. Nice for the Americans though they should feel at home ;)

    An event at a venue with a capacity of 24!?

    Sounds like a nice intimate jolly for the great and the good...wonder who's paying for this cosy performance?...the good ol' general public I expect.

    Not much of a weekend of events for "oulaw voices"

    Posted by Anonymous at 6:37 PM GMT 29/02/2008 Report Abuse

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