Mike Hatchard’sFacing Up
A new concept for a regularly monthly event on the first Thursday of every month at CROWN HOUSE, St Leonards – music, chat, comedy and more.
Some years ago local musician Mike Hatchard made a six-part series for CTV in which he caricatured his guests as he interviewed them. The show was nearly taken up by Channel 4 but in the end they declined and Mike shelved the idea – until now.
At Crown House on 1 February Mike’s guests will include Black Crows producer and guitarist Paul Stacey (who toured the world with Oasis as well as appearing in Four Weddings and a Funeral), local film-maker and celebrity bricklayer Glen Veness (how many celebrity bricklayers are there?), local poet/singer Emma Silvester, an award-winning cartoonist/jazz singer (Sally Jane Hurst) and, perhaps most remarkably of all…
…a violinist who plays upside down. Mike recently appeared on national BBC Children in Need doing just that and, after much searching discovered that there IS somebody who plays violin inverted. And what are the odds that such a person ALSO lives in St Leonards? Daria Fisher started playing on the streets of Russia at the age of six, became a well-known child prodigy and…well, come and hear her story on 1 February when her fellow practitioner of inverted violinistics interviews her. (For those who want to whet their appetite, you can read about her in the Winter edition of Get Hastings.)
Tickets are £15
(£10 with concessions)
available from Ticketmaster
or on the door.
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