Stand- up Janey is new sensation
If you’re looking for a thoughtful Christmas present, then tickets for some laughter might fit the bill.
And at £ 18 a ticket it is not going to break the bank. The Glasgow comedian Janey Godley brings her “Soup Pot Tour” to the Palace Theatre in Kilmarnock on Thursday March 5.
As Janey says: “So, tell all the Sandra’s, Big Frank and all the lassies fresh from Zumba to grab the soup pot and get ready - the queen of Scottish comedy” is coming.”
There are live voice over’s and stand up like you’ve never seen before. Check out some hilarious patter from Big Tereeza in Torremolinos, Boris and his bawjaws and see Nicola up on the big screen with all the latest patter.
Hot from her recent appearance’s on BBC’s ‘ Have I Got News for You’ and BBC Scotland’s ‘ Breaking the News’, Fringe Festival sell out and with over 20 years of performing award winning comedy around the world from Newcastle to New Zealand. Janey brings her 2020 show. Billy Connolly reckons Janey is a great comedian. She was brought up in Glasgow’s east end and married into a gangster family.
For 14 years, she and her husband ran a pub in the Calton - enough to give anyone some material. Since 1994 she has played venues from Glastonbury to Scottish prisons, where the audience was literally held captive.
The conductor will be Martyn Brabbins who will conduct Brahms’ variations on the St Anthony Chorale followed by Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings with soloists Stuart Jackson, tenor, and Alberto Menéndez Escribano, horn. After the interval the orchestra will play Dvorák’s Serenade for wind instruments and his Symphonic Variations.
Va r iat i o n s a re simple. A composer takes a favourite tune ( or makes one up) and then lets their imagination get to work. With each repetition, the tune evolves and transforms, until we’re listening to something completely new - and that’s where the magic happens. Brahms’s chosen tune wasn’t really by Haydn at all, but he didn’t know that, and filled his ‘ Haydn Variations’ with all the wit and fantasy of his favourite classical master. His friend Dvorák invented his own melody, and let it grow into a masterpiece as characterful as any of his symphonies. As a contrast, young British tenor Stuart Jackson and BBC SSO principal horn Alberto Menéndez Escribano dive deep into Britten’s Serenade – great poetry meets incandescent music, united by an unspoken theme of its own: the timeless magic of night.
It will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
To make sure of your seat, buy a ticket without delay. Other dates are selling fast: Thursday December 19- A Very Merry Christmas with the BBC SSO .
Saturday January 4, SCO New Year Gala Concert.
Friday January 24 BBC SSO; Friday February 7 The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and Friday March 27 The Chamber Philharmonic Europe from Cologne.
Full details of the live classical orchestral music to be played in Ayr are in the brochure from Ayr Gaiety or Ayr Town Hall.
Single tickets cost: Adults £ 25 Circle, £ 20 Stalls; Students £ 5 Stalls and School Pupils £ 3 Stalls in advance from Ayr Gaiety Box Office, 01292 288 235 or, subject to availability, at the door on the night.