PUNK musician turned writer Clive Parker brings his debut theatre show to Bournemouth Library next month.
His career has seen him share stages with the likes of The Clash, Human League and Nik Kershaw.
He was also a founding member of Scottish folk-rock band Big Country.
Now Parker is bringing his free show, Sex, Drugs And Music Hall to Bournemouth on August 9 at 2pm and August 10 at 1pm.
The show is adapted from Parker's book, The Box, a racy, glamorised telling of the story of Thomas Brem-Wilson, a real-life Ghanaian Victorian Pentecostal preacher who moved to London in 1901.
Brem-Wilson is an intriguing character, a founder of the UK's first African Pentecostal Church and something of a dandy. Brem-Wilson married Jewish music hall star Ettie Cinders and Parker describes the book as an often-literal trawl through three generations of the family's “dirty laundry” that resulted from the union.
The Brem-Wilsons became entwined with the music and bingo hall scene in the Victorian era and travailed through its ups and downs. Sex, Drugs And Music Hall is a two-man production, toned down for wider audiences from The Box.
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