BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aa52efc3-673a-413d-94ae-2c7082fb03b4@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260815T162438 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270129T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270129T203000 SUMMARY:Future Transmissions Robb Johnson LOCATION:Reading Rising Sun Arts Centre DESCRIPTION:- Robb Johnson is now widely recognised as one of the finest s ongwriters working in the UK today. “An English original”\,(Robin Dens elow\, the Guardian) … “one of our best singer-songwriters ever” (Mi ke Harding)… a “renowned folk-punk”(Time Out). His songs feature in the repertoires of a wide variety of musicians\, from folk legend Roy Bail ey to cabaret chanteuse Barb Jungr\, and he enjoys a similarly diverse spe ctrum of critical acclaim – “a modern-day Dostoyevsky” said the US ’s Dirty Linen\, Mojo made the double CD Gentle Men\, a song suite famil y history of the First World War and its consequences\, Album Of The Month \, while The Daily Telegraph made it their Folk Album Of 1998. A revised v ersion was recorded in 2013 to coincide with the centenary of the First Wo rld War featuring Roy Bailey Barb Jungr\, and was again greeted with wides pread critical acclaim. Tony Benn said Johnson’s “Winter Turns To Spri ng” is his favourite song\, while Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite is “Bob Crow”.He has played pubs\, clubs\, pavements\, pickets and benefits\, ar ts centres and festivals\, local radio\, BBC Radio 3 and 4\, Belgian Radio 1\, Nicaraguan TV and Channel 4\, the Albert Hole in Bristol and\, as par t of Roy Bailey’s 1998 concert\, the Albert Hall in London. In February 2006 Robb appeared at the Barbican as part of the prestigious BBC Folk Bri tannia series\, where “for the encore\, Robb Johnson leads all the artis ts (and the audience) in the World War I song (‘Hanging On The Old Barbe d Wire’)” (BBC Folk Britannia website) in a concert that was screened later that month on BBC4.Robb also plays extensively in Belgium\, Holland and Germany\, and he has toured Britain supporting Chumbawamba\, and the U S with David Rovics. For several years\, Robb has also been a regular feat ure of the Tolpuddle Festival\, where he comperes the main stage on Sunday . This led to him doing the same job at the Labour Live festival in June 2 018.Robb is a regular contributor to RNR magazine: he co-wrote Woman\, a b iography of Yoko Ono\, with Alan Clayson and Barb Jungr\, published by Chr ome Dreams\, and The People’s Republic Of Neverland: the Child versus th e State\, based on his experience of working as a teacher\, to be publishe d by PM Press in 2020.He has worked with a variety of bands\, with friend and fellow songwriter Leon Rosselson\, as a member of the Anti-Capitalist Roadshow\, as well as solo. Robb’s album Metro (released in September 20 05) featured piano accompaniment by the late Russell Churney\, who had pre viously worked with Julian Clary\, Barb Jungr and Fascinating Aida). Again \, the album received widespread praise in both music and national press: “unquestionably classy… excellent songs (that) show again what a fine\ , if provocative writer Johnson is” (The Daily Telegraph). Robb has also enjoyed working and recording with Brighton’s Hullabaloo Choir. His ele ctric band The Irregulars gigs on an irregular basis\, and generally featu res long-time friend and Irregular Records recording artiste John Forreste r on bass and Robb’s Son Arvin Johnson on drums.In 2016\, PM Press in th e US released A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands\, a 5-CD career-r etrospective\, to widespread critical acclaim – reviewing it\, the magaz ine fRoots said Robb is “one of this country’s most important songwrit ers (no argument!)”. In September My Best Regards\, was released\, again to widespread critical acclaim\, with some reviewers suggesting it was hi s best album to date. That Christmas Robb released a festive Christmas sin gle “JC4PM for me” that resulted in TV appearances on The Daily Politi cs Show and Russia Today. 2017 saw the release of Songs From the Last Seve n Years\, a collection of unreleased songs chronicling events since the el ection of the ConDem government in 2010.In November 2018 Robb released Ord inary Giants\, a 3-CD song suite based on his father’s life and times. T he album features contributions from over 30 performers\, including award- winning Jazz legend Claire Martin\, Justin Sullivan from New Model Army\, Tom Robinson\, and TUC General secretary Frances O’Grady\, with Phil Odg ers (from The Men They Couldn’t Hang) and Miranda Sykes as his mum and d ad.Robb’s label Irregular Records has facilitated releases by a variety of song-orientated artists\, including Maggie Holland\, The Men They Could n’t Hang\, Barb Jungr and Philip Jeays. He coordinated an album celebrat ing the work of Jacques Brel Ne Me Quitte Pas that has done much to focus a renewed interest in the chanson genre. He has translated several of Brel ’s songs into English and performed concerts celebrating Brel’s life a nd work.\n\nBoletos: https://wegottickets.com/event/710153 URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/aa52efc3-673a-413d-94ae-2c7082fb03 b4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR