Please note - The bar will be open until 2:30am for drinks, despite any previous suggestions to the contrary. Musical acts will START onstage at 7:30pm sharp!

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6pm Bar/Foyer open to public

7.00pm House/Theatre Open

Ushers do CD Giveaways on Entry

7.30pm ACT ONE
7:30 Sid is onstage opening
7:35 Pat comes on
7:40 Andy Steele joins Pat & Sid
7:45 Pat Sid Wes McGhee preview Sid's new
solo CD "As Certain As Sunrise"
8:15 Wes performs solo
8:30 Robyn Hitchcock performs solo
8:45 Chip Hamer comes on to "read" rap poetry
9pm John Etheridge performs jazz guitar

9.20pm INTERMISSION

9.45pm ACT TWO
The Coal Porters play a 45 minute set
10.45pm ENDS

11.00pm onwards Live music in the bar provided
by Sid Griffin & his merry friends...

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>>>> The Coal Porters will be joining Janice Long on BBC Radio 2 live for a chat and a couple of tracks late Sunday 10th April (so on air during the first few minutes of Monday morning - scheduled time: 12:25am)! The session will be available to listen to online for 7 days afterwards.

Submit your questions for Janice to ask the Coal Porters at: janicelong.livemusic@bbc.co.uk. Listen here.

>>>> Tune into 104.4 Resonance FM between 7and 8pm on Thursday March 17th to hear live tracks and an interview with London's most popular suit wearing, banjo picking, a-fiddling 5 piece, the Coal Porters.

Sid has two upcoming BBC radio shows:
The first is Boxing Day 6pm to 9pm UK time and then January 2nd Sid is on again 6pm to 9pm playing bluegrass and acoustic sounds. The shows are found on BBC local radio in the eastern counties which are BBC Radio Northampton, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, BBC Essex and BBC Three Counties Radio (Beds, Herts and Bucks).

If the BBC receives emails, phone calls, faxes and letters saying 'more of this, please!' then Sid will have a permanent radio show once again so please tune in, get turned on and drop the BBC a missive saying you dug it.

The email address to write in and say 'wasn't that Sid Griffin's show ace!!! More of this, please!' is: 3cr@bbc.co.uk

Click here for more information on Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel (from BBC Four website)

Also featured on the BBC Four website and archived here: Interview with Sid Griffin

Flyin Shoes interview - Click here to read the Flyin Shoes Long Ryders/Sid Griffin interview "The Summer of the Long Ryders".

>>>> Please note revised date: On Friday 24th Sept at 11:35pm BBC Two will broadcast Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, the well-received documentary by producer/director Gandulf Hennig and writer Sid Griffin. This is the first broadcast of this 90 minute documentary on BBC Two and is not to be missed.

>>>> The Long Ryders will be featured on the Andy Kershaw Session Sept 12th on BBC Radio Three at 10:15pm (GMT). Listen online here.

The 'Sid Griffin & The Albanians' version of "When She Comes Around" is featured on From A Man Of Mysteries: A Steve Wynn Tribute. Click here for more info.

>>>> The first ever single CD Long Ryders collection, available worldwide on June 14, will feature tracks from across their entire career and from every label the band were on. Click here for further info and track listing.

At midnight on Sunday June 13 VH2's Americana cable TV show will start with the Byrds' performing "Turn, Turn, Turn" while the second song will be the Long Ryders legendary video of "Looking For Lewis & Clark". This program is repeated on Wednesday June 16 at midnight and VH2 say they plan to play the Long Ryders video on the show in the week after as well. Get your VCRs ready to tape!

A Long Ryders tour of Europe - THE STATE OF THE REUNION - their first gigs in seventeen years, is scheduled for June 25 to July 10. This is with the exact 1984-1987 lineup of the band.

Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel will also be shown on April 29 and May 2 at the Nashville Film Festival in Tennessee.

March 5, 2004 saw the initial BBC showing of Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, the ninety minute documentary Sid has been working on for most of 2003. And the reviews have been incredible so far! A co-production between the German production company Spothouse and the BBC, this is the first of several planned film documentaries for Sid.

An extensive internet resource for alt-country music is http://www.insurgentcountry.com - click here for the Coal Porters page. {EDIT 01/06: Coal Porters link no longer works}

BBC4 is showing Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel again on Friday 9 April at 10:20pm GMT.

Sid spent a large part of 2003 working on a documentary with producer/director Gandulf Hennig about Gram Parsons. Entitled Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel it was shown on BBC Four to great reviews in March. Click here for more information on Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel. (From BBC Four website)

This Thursday March 4th tune in to BBC 6 at 9am (GMT) – Phil Jupitus show – and BBC Radio Two at 6:20pm (GMT) - Johnny Walker show - to hear what Sid has to say about the TV documentary Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel. Listen live over the net: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio

Prima mail order now has copies of the Italian El Mucchio live CD for sale (without the magazine).

The bluegrass Coal Porters recently recorded a cover of Bruce Springsteen's Highway Patrolman for a new charity tribute album. The album is called From Small Things Big Things Come: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen and will be released in May (Spain) and July (USA) on Buffalo Records.