Murray Lachlan Young
Murray Lachlan Young 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. 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.
Personal life
Young graduated from University of Salford. In 1998, he married singer Zoë Pollock; they have two children.Performances
Live solo shows include:- UK solo headline tours
- Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts
- MTV Music Awards, US
- T in the Park Festival
- Port Elliot Festival
- Latitude Festival
- Goodlife Festival
- Brighton Festival
- The Wilderness Festival
- 6 Music Festival
- Festival No 6
- Poet in residence at The Union Club, Soho, London
- Poet in residence at The Arts Club, Mayfair, London
Books
- Vice & Verse
- Casual Sex and Other Verse
- How Freakin' Zeitgeist Are You?
- The Nine Dead Williams
- ''The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps''
Stage, film, dance and audio recordings
;Stage- A Captive Audience
- The Fabulous Twister Brothers
- Modern Cautionary Tales for Children
- The Incomers
- Rehab
Features:
- Under Milk Wood
- God’s Work
- The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps
- Summerset
- Desideratum
- Little Sucker Thumb
- Plunkett and McClean
- Annie McClue
- The Story of Martin
- Lycra Dad
- Enjoy Your Stay
- Taste
- Live at Ronnie Scotts
- The Lost Album
- Simply Everyone’s Taking Cocaine
- Vice & Verse
- Casual Sex
- Murray Lachlan Young - Live
- ''The Alien Balladeer''
Broadcasting
;Radio- Poet in residence, The Breakfast Show, LBC
- Poet in residence, BBC 6 Music
- Poet in residence, Saturday Live, BBC Radio 4
- Regular contributor to Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4
- Regular contributor to Kaleidescope, BBC Radio 4
- Regular contributor to The Arts Show, BBC Radio 2
- Regular contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live, including special commissions for Test Match Special, Cheltenham Gold Cup and City v United
- Scotland meet Murray Lachlan Young, BBC Radio 4
- Alien Balladeer, BBC Radio 4 series
- The Symphony of Medinah, Narrator, BBC Radio 5 Live
- Cern, BBC World Service
- Murray Lachlan Young, MTV USA, series
- Vice Versa, BBC 2 television special
- Regular contributor, The Wright Stuff, Channel
- Contributor, Newsnight, BBC 2,