BREAKING NEWS...
28th March, 2010, 1-4pm, Fran performs her stunning full length show with guests Simon Wallace and Sarah Moule and Miles Landesman, at the 606 Club 90 Lots Rd., Chelsea, SW10, tel 0207 352 5953 (www.606club.co.uk).
26th May 2010, The Southbank Centre, London presents
A NIGHT OUT WITH FRAN LANDESMAN. At this celebration of her career Fran is joined by longtime friends and collaborators Simon Wallace and Sarah Moule, Bob Dorough in a rare appearance from America, Lemn sissay and actors Imelda Staunton and Phil Daniels. Interspersed among the songs and poems is colourful conversation about Fran's life, with photos and film capturing the London scene from the 1960s to the present day. Tickets are £10 (www.southbankcentre.co.uk).
9th October, 2009, AT 4.45pm: London Screening of documentary film about Fran 'ALMOST A LEGEND', Apollo, Piccadilly, 19 Lower Regent Street., London W1. Book Tickets
Catch Fran's stunning live set at the 606 Club 90 Lots Rd., Chelsea on Sunday lunchtime, 18th October, 1-4pm, tel 0207 352 5953. Read more..
Fran Landesman is still the poet laureate of lovers and losers:
her songs are the secret diaries of the desperate and the
decadent. No one can convey the bitter-sweet joys of melancholy
or the exhilaration of living on the edge like Fran.
The
jazz world's answer to Dorothy Parker, New York born lyricist
Fran Landesman's acid wit and penetrating insights first emerged
in her 1950s collaborations with composer Tommy
Wolf. Songs such as “Spring
Can Hang You Up The Most” and “The
Ballad Of The Sad Young Men” were picked up
by Jackie and Roy and soon became
standards boasting recordings by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald,
Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan and Bette Midler. Nearly half a century later
Fran's lyrics are sharper and more perceptive than ever. She
now lives in London and for the past 15 years has been writing
superbly crafted songs with the eclectic, Welsh born, world
travelled composer Simon Wallace.
Music and lyrics work together to create a tough, witty, ironic
expression of contemporary love and life in songs that caress
the heart and remain in the head long after the music is over. |
