WELCOME TO SUGG'S MY LIFE STORY IN WORDS AND MUSIC WEBSITE

Written by Graham McPherson and Toby Follett
Directed by Owen Lewis

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Is the theatre world ready for the pandemonium, the one man carnival, that is...Suggs? Get up close and personal with the Madness frontman on an emotional rollercoaster that’s part music, part personal vision, part music hall extravaganza.

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Join him in the front seat on a unique journey through the ups and downs of an astonishing thirty-year career spanning pop music, radio television, film and the meat processing industry..

Witness Suggs cannon ball to the heights of pop success, stumble and plummet down through the trap-door of failure and then trampoline back up to catch the passing trapeze of showbusiness success. A hilarious (and sometimes sad) story of a life he can still not quite believe is happening

WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT AND UNCALLED-FOR INTERJECTRION FROM HIS LOYAL PIANIST-CUM-MANSERVANT.

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Suggs: the Tommy Cooper of pop

Madness frontman Suggs tells Neil McCormick how the death of his cat inspired his first stand-up tour.

some_text   “Every time I have to fill out a form where it asks your occupation, I never know what to write,” confesses Graham “Suggs” McPherson. “I’ve never felt comfortable being described as a songwriter or a singer. But I’m a performer, for sure.” The lead singer with much-loved seven-piece ska pop band Madness sometime radio DJ and television host is about to embark on a solo theatrical one-man show, Live Suggs, in which..." read more
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REVIEW SECTION

See what the press think of Suggs My Life Story in Words and Music

 

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Dominic Maxwell  The Times

“Suggs has natural comic timing and tells his story with wit and grace in this hugely enjoyable evening” .

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Jessica Hayes - Time Out

"It is impossible not to be charmed by this one man show."

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Live Suggs, Milton Keynes Theatre, review

Suggs has a crack at stand-up? That’s been the arresting suggestion floated ahead of this brief, toe-in-the-water tour by the Madness front-man - and it sounded eminently plausible. Madness were the music-hall joker read more

 

 

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