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A SPOOF band and a comedian should bring some fun into the year’s most miserable month ... January.

For spoof-band Mundo Jazz and Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee Seymour Mace form the line-up for the Lawrence Batley Theatre’s Comedy Cellar in January.

Mundo Jazz have been hailed as a live Latino Spinal Tap. With subtle satire on the likes of Bono and Bob Geldof, their character comedy creations are “worthy of Coogan or Kay” (BBC).

Preaching peace, love and understanding with all the subtlety of a brick hitting butter through their ridiculously catchy songs, awful dancing and thunderously crass philosophising, Mundo Jazz are also superb musical and comic improvisers, frequently creating songs on the spot and veering off into spontaneous chaos.

Having worked as a clown prior to becoming a stand-up comedian, Seymour has achieved nominations for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show 2015 and was also a finalist for the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? award.

Best known for his part in the BBC sitcom Ideal and appearances on Dave’s One Night Stand, The Weird World of Russell Brand and The Stand-Up Show, Seymour brings his “manic and gripping” style of comedy to Huddersfield.

Intimate, atmospheric and relaxed, the LBT’s monthly Comedy Cellars are the perfect way to experience stand-up in all its spontaneous, electrifying glory.

Tickets for the January Comedy Cellar on Thursday January 18 at 7.45pm are priced at £10 with Under 26s £8 and Kirklees Passport holders £3 off.

They can be bought via the box office on 01484 430528 or online at www.thelbt.org

For the event, Revolt and Revolution, looks at how art and music has long been associated with vanguard ideas.

It starts tomorrow, January 6, and runs until April 15 in the Bothy Gallery.

Drawn primarily from the Arts Council Collection, it gives an insight into counterculture and anti-establishment movements and shows the work of artists who seek to make a difference – helping to suggest ways that we might contribute to change on an individual, community and even global level.

The exhibition is announced by Susan Philipsz’s tentative version of The Internationale (1999) broadcast across the landscape, drawing visitors into the Bothy Gallery. Inside, Ruth Ewan’s A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World (2003) invites you to select from an ever-growing archive of protest songs, recently updated to include the Trump era.

A series of sculptures and prints from the mid 1970s, around the time of YSP’s inception, highlight the volatile environment of the era and the rise of anti-capitalist, punk and do-it-yourself movements.

Christiania (1977) by Mark Edwards captures the Danish anarchist commune that emerged from the squatting of an abandoned military barracks in Copenhagen; Andrew Logan’s Homage to the New Wave (1977), a large mirrored mosaic safety pin, appropriates the symbol that came to represent punk culture and ethos and Victor Burgin’s Possession (1976) questions the fairness of wealth distribution.

In Peter Kennard’s subversive photomontage Hay Wain, Constable (1821) Cruise Missiles USA (1981), three nuclear warheads are inserted into the idyllic East Anglian countryside of John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain.

Shown alongside Marcus Lyon’s Greenham Women to be Evicted (1992) and Nightguard, Stonehenge (from our Forbidden Land) (1988) by Fay Godwin, the works highlight a shift towards anti-war and land access activism in the 1980s and 1990s. Helmet Head No.3 (1960) by Henry Moore, a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also features.

The final room premieres a new episode of Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s FF Gaiden series. The video, which uses the virtual landscape of Grand Theft Auto V as its backdrop, shares the story of Alison Catherall, a local resident who has long championed social justice at a grass roots level.

Coinciding with Alfredo Jaar’s major YSP exhibition The Garden of Good and Evil (until April 8, 2018) a poetic interrogation of humanitarian issues and human and civil rights abuse, Revolt & Revolutions continues a strand of YSP programming that encourages debate and presents issues relevant to contemporary society.

Exhibition-inspired events include Do You Want to Change the World? (February 20, 2018) on the evening of the United Nation’s World Day of Social Justice. Let’s Play Vinyl: Heritage HiFi (March 3, 2018) celebrates the fact that the first independent English record label was started by Mike Levon, a student of Bretton Hall – bring your vintage dub and vinyl records and join Let’s Go Yorkshire and selector Paul Huxtable for an afternoon of music.

Visitors are invited to share how they would change the world using #60SecondSoapBox