Murray Lachlan Young

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Murray Lachlan Young
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Murray Lachlan Young, Glastonbury Festival, 2019
Born (1969-03-14) 14 March 1969 (age 56)
United States
OccupationPoet
NationalityBritish
Website
www.murraylachlanyoung.co.uk

Murray Lachlan Young (born 14 March 1969) is a British poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright and screenwriter, and he is also a children's author who has worked extensively in schools. [1] He came to prominence during the Britpop era of the mid-1990s, when he became the only poet to sign a recording contract worth £1m. [2]

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Personal life

Young graduated from University of Salford. [3] In 1998, he married singer Zoë Pollock; they have two children. [4]

Performances

Live solo shows include:

Books

Stage, film, dance and audio recordings

Stage
Film

Features:

Shorts:

Dance
Audio recordings

Broadcasting

Radio
Television

Hartnoll & Young

In 2021, Murray Lachlan Young teamed up with Orbital's Paul Hartnoll for a lockdown inspired album called The Virus Diaries under the name Hartnoll & Young. [7] [8] [9] In June 2021, the pair released a single from the album called "Garden Centre (Push the Trolley)" [10] [11] as a follow-up to "I Need a Haircut".

References

  1. "Murray Lachlan Young: Interview with Funnelwick Limb's Murray Lachlan Young". Archived from the original on 14 September 2024.
  2. "An Evening with Murray Lachlan Young: Thursday 9th November 2017; Lasalle College of the Arts (University of the Arts, Singapore)". Archived from the original on 23 April 2024.
  3. "Murray Lachlan Young on giving two fingers to the zeitgeist". Manchester Evening News . 7 September 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  4. "Life after million pound poetry". BBC News Online. 13 January 2006.
  5. "Scotland Street Press | Bookstore | Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps". www.scotlandstreetpress.com. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  6. 1 2 "Radio review: The Alien Balladeer - The naked truth about poetry and cheap food". The Independent . 27 January 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  7. "Orbital's PAUL HARTNOLL and controversial poet and performance artist MURRAY LACHLAN YOUNG announce lockdown inspired album 'The Virus Diaries' | XS Noize | Online Music Magazine". www.xsnoize.com.
  8. "Hartnoll & Young - The Virus Diaries - OUT NOW - News". 27 May 2021.
  9. "Murray Lachlan Young". www.murraylachlanyoung.co.uk.
  10. "BBC Radio 6 Music - Chris Hawkins, Manchester International Festival: Festival Square". BBC.
  11. "Orbital's Paul Hartnoll & Poet Murray Lachlan Young release new single 'Garden Centre' | XS Noize | Online Music Magazine". www.xsnoize.com.