NEWS

27th June 2023
The BARD COMPANY gig at Queen St Mill textile museum in Burnley on 1st July has been rescheduled for Saturday 23rd September 2023 (6.30pm) due to a licensing issue

19th January 2023
Bard Company have announced a host of festival dates for 2023 including The 0161 Festival in Manchester, The May Day Festival Of Solidarity in Barnsley, The With Banners Held High Festival in Wakefield, The Tribal Gathering in Warrington and The Diggers Festival in Wigan - there are a number of other festivals being added shortly - check out the GIG GUIDE for more details

5th January 2023
Ian has given up hosting duties at the open mic poetry event 'Getting Gobby in The Lobby' which he set up in 2018. The event is hopefully going to continue with new hosts in March 2023

28th July 2022
Bard Company have released their latest album 'Northern Powerhouse' co-written and produced by John Kettle at The Music Projects in Wigan. See details on the SHOP MUSIC PAGE

27th February 2022
Ian is working on the production of his next poetry collection, tentatively titled 'Denim Genes', which will be launched in 2023

1st November 2021
Ian has produced a new 54 page illustrated book of poetry entitled 'Crow Lore' which features the original poems that were used on The Crows Of Albion 'Crow Lore' album - details on the SHOP POETRY PAGE

15th September 2021
Ian has restarted host duties for all the open mic events he ran pre-Covid. These will be as follows:
2nd Thursday of the month - Write Out Loud at The Old Courts (Bailiff Bar) in Wigan
4th Thursday of the month - Write Out Loud/Old Courts online event via Zoom
Check the GIG GUIDE for dates and times

13th May 2021
Cheezy Bard (Gordon Zola) has decided to leave BARD COMPANY and they will continue, in future, as a 3-piece
 
1st January 2021
The Crows Of Albion release a new album called 'FolkLore' see details on the SHOP MUSIC PAGE
 
28th June 2020
Bard Company have released a new 64 page book of poetry, comedy, satire, images and articles entitled ' Bard Company's Little Read Book'. Details are on the BARD COMPANY PAGE
 
11th November 2019
New BARD COMPANY album was released on November 11th 2019. Titled 'Raising The Standards' - the boys have written all but one of the 11 tracks in collaboration with John Kettle (Merry Hell) - which pay homage to Socialist heroes as well as criticising misuse of power and the rise of Fascism. See the BARD COMPANY PAGE for more details.

15th March 2019
New 110 page book of poetry launched entitled 'There Are No Angels Here' - more details on the SHOP POETRY PAGE
 
1st January 2019
BLACK & WHITE & READ ALL OVER - New 44 Track spoken word/Poetry album launched - details on the SHOP POETRY PAGE

28th September 2018
SCREAMING BLUE MURDER - CROWS OF ALBION 16 Track album released - see details on the SHOP MUSIC PAGE