Others may tell stories and play guitar but they probably haven't performed with Steve Martin and Robin Williams or played guitar with Brian May of Queen, Status Quo or Joni Mitchell
Richard Digance has performed to an audience of eight in The Falklands and to half a million at Knebworth with The Beach Boys and Dire Straits. He's done lots in between too that's led him to a BAFTA Nomination and a Gold Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. He also finds nine letter words on Countdown. He has survived all trends in comedy and music and remains one of Britain's most unique entertainers performing his songs, rhymes and stories like nobody else.
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Richard's personal Blog
Hi everyone and welcome to the official website of yours truly. As you see from the dates page I've been on tour
since the end of January with a comprehensive set of dates that exceeds my work schedule in previous years.
It's been great to meet so many people after shows who found out where I was playing via this site.
I always get to a theatre foyer after a show to sign CD's etc and I'm really pleased everyone is enjoying the new songs
in the show for this year. There's nothing worse than going to see someone a second time and they just repeat what
they did the previous time they were in town and so I've made a huge effort to break the show into new material in
the first half and golden oldies in the second. It seems to work.
I've broken new ground this year with a few shows in the North East, Billingham, Stockton and Darlington and I'm so
pleased we managed to complete our assault on this new area with a sell-out at Darlington Arts Centre.We tour right
through this year without stopping, trying new venues as well as tried and tested theatres in strong areas and I'm
really enjoying the challenege of breaking new ground with Newcatle being the only casualty so far.Peebles up in
Scotland was a total joy and a beautiful drive along the River Tweed, right up my street, even if we did drive back
in a raging blizzard.
The other addition to my dates this year are acoustic duo gigs with my folky mate Arnie Cotterell. We go back 30 years
and I so look forward to sitting down and just playing my guitar with my mate. The gigs are small and all are invited
but be warned it won't be the comedy stuff people expect from me normally. It's just two mates playing their guitars
and singing their favourite songs.
Alderney, my third visit in four years, was a huge success and I love visiting that part of The Channel islands.
In two nights I probably played to most of the island's population who weren't too young or too old to turn out.Back in
England now I'm preparing to go away for another week as I do more gigs and record five Countdowns. Then in May I'm
in the recording studio to do my next CD which we shall have available by September.
That's it for now, keep the emails coming or visit My Space and will post another update in a few weeks when my feet
touch the floor once again.
Best wishes to you all. Richard Digance
MYSPACE
Richard now has a MySpace Music profile which was set up with help from Caroline Thomas. Give it a visit and 'give him an add!' Our thanks to Caroline for her dedication in creating the site and the forum facility on which you have access to join in the chats with members of The Richard Digance Appreciation Society by clicking the groups icon and then the pic of Richard
www.myspace.com/richarddigance
LATEST NEWS
Quote from Belper Folk Club website - February 2008
'The club record for a guest night was broken on 12th February when 100 ticket holders plus committee members and performers witnessed a brilliantly entertaining evening with Richard Digance. Radio Derby was also there to do an interview and "Belper TV" did some filming for their new DVD magazine.'
Despite his heavy tour schedule Richard as always has some dates available for the smaller folk venues. If you want Richard to appear at your folk club email tour manager Matt Hampton at matt@richarddigance.com
BACK ON TV
Richard has filmed programmes for The World Stands Up for the Paramount Channel as well as his continued Countdown appearances for Channel 4
NEW BOOK
Richard has finally completed his new novel Guppy Swamp, his third novel. It's a fun story about a tramp. Time to do the usual rounds of publishing houses to get the thing out, unless you happen to be a book publisher and read this!!
Richard sends his best wishes to everyone he met on The Great North Run on September 30th last year with Carol Vorderman. He finished 35,615 out of 50,000, 562 places better than last year and 6 min 36 secs faster. For those interested in statistics he finished behind Paula Radcliffe. See Richard’s blog on the great day
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www.yourrhymes.com www.professorsport.com www.funnytothink.com www.footballtriv.com
