The Ian McMillan Orchestra

Astonishing, awesome
& beautiful songs presented by the Bard of Barnsley, Ian McMillan and composer Luke Carver Goss, with a jaw-dropping band of ensemble players.

Featured on The South Bank Show, Loose Ends, Late Junction, The Mike Harding Show, BBC Proms Plus…

Powerful, echoing tales of iPod’s, dads, voices found, death by shanty, industrial manoeuvres, 9/11, mining and the late great Ronnie Barker.. For audiences, 7 to 107. A scintillating night of poems, music, comedy & improv - like nothing you’ve ever seen before! www.theianmcmillanorchestra.com

click here for new CD 'Homing In', now in stock!

Ian McMillan voice

Luke Carver Goss accordion / guitar

Dylan Fowler guitar / mandocello

Clare Salaman nyckelharpa / hurdy-gurdy / violin

Nathan Thomson double bass / kalimba

Oli Wilson Dickson violin / percussion

CD Sharp Stories out Apr'07

Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb . He's Poet-in-Residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, Humberside Police's Beat Poet, Yorkshire TV's Investigative Poet and a regular on Newsnight Review, The Mark Radcliffe Show , The Today Programme, You & Yours, The Culture Show, Never Mind The Full Stops… and Have I Got News For You? His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze.

Luke Carver Goss's music includes commissions for symphony orchestras, rock bands, musicals, theatres and dance ensembles. He has arranged music for choirs, song-writers, bands and theatres. He works both on his own and in collaboration with composers, writers, dancers, artists and a dazzlingly good band called Szapora .