Suddenly the world’s awash with things going on about our friend,
the late lamented Hovis Presley (Richard McFarlane). Earlier this
month Elvis McGonagall won a “Dead Poet’s slam” with some of
Hovis’s material and now…. There’s a Radio Four programme
about him, new live dates for Dave Morgan’s “Hovis in Wonderland”
plus a CD by the original cast, full details below.
Hovis on 4
On Tuesday 18 March at 11.30am BBC Radio Four presents,
“Hovis has left the Building”. The brainchild of Mark Radcliffe, this
affectionate tribute will be a must for all Hovis fans. In this tribute
programme, with generous archive material featuring Hovis
performing his work, Mark, a fellow Boltonian, looks back at the career
and personality of a talented individual who took the rare step of rejecting fame
and fortune when it came his way. The programme features interviews with fellow
performers such as Johnny Vegas, John Cooper Clarke, John Hegley, Lucy
Porter and Badly Drawn Boy, alongside many friends and admirers of Hovis and
his legacy. (Source BBC Press Office)
Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/Paul Bajoria
Hovis wins slam
In February in deepest Devon, Hovis Presley saw off Allen Ginsberg, TS Elliot, WH Auden
and Thomas Hardy in the Totnes Dead Poets Slam. Represented by Elvis McGonagall,
national slam champ, Hovis fan, and Radio 4 favourite, a short selection of gems from Poetic
off Licence led the audience to vote overwhelmingly for Hovis. Elvis confessed that no-one in
Totnes knew of Hovis before the slam “but they do now!”
Hovis Tribute Dates
Hovis in Wonderland, Dave Morgan’s adaptation of Poetic off Licence, will be playing at the
following venues in 2008:
Friday 28 March, Bolton Little Theatre, Hanover Street, Bolton, 8.00pm,
Friday 04 April, Manchester Royal Exchange, St Anne’s Square, 6.00pm
Wednesday 21 May, Forum 28 Arts Theatre, Barrow in Furness, 7.30pm
For further information contact Dave Morgan on 01204 382440 or thisisnotparis@ntlworld.com
Studio Recording
A studio recording of Hovis in Wonderland by the original cast has just been produced. Priced
at £5, the Hovis Presley Memorial Fund will receive £1 for each copy sold. Details from Dave
Morgan thisisnotparis@ntlworld.com or www.hovispresley.co.uk
