Songs & Poems by Julia Darling and Tim Dalling
Tim Dalling's collaboration with Julia Darling provided the music for The Waiting Room, an Afternoon Play broadcast by Radio 4 in January. Extracts from Julia's web diary were edited by Jackie Kay and performed by actor Charlie Hardwick, who also sang some of Julia's poems, using Tim's settings and with his musical accompaniment.
The Rendezvous CD features eleven settings of Julia's words by Tim, interspersed with Julia reading six of her poems.
Here's more information, including a track list, audio clips and information about how you can order the CD.
Mr. Dalling would like to sing you some songs. Some he will sing unaccompanied, but for most he will use the assistance of his piano accordion.
He has been entertaining audiences for many years as a musician, a clown and as an actor. His main rôle for the last decade has been, and still is, the kilted fall-guy in the internationally renowned comedy-folk trio The Old Rope String Band.
Although Tim Dalling has worked tirelessly, in his career, to reduce audiences to helpless laughter, over the last few years he has been composing a body of serious songs that encompass a whole range of other emotions. Inspired by the suggestion of a friend, he started turning the moving and lyrical poems of Louis MacNeice into songs. This led to more lyrics and songs of his own, and a commission to turn poems by Sean O'Brien into songs for a Radio 3 play, The Black Path.
Ever committed to live entertainment, he is now searching for venues where he can let his songs come to life in the ears of an audience. The combination of his soulful voice, funky accordion, years of experience entertaining, and a batch of exciting, moving and original songs will make for a good night.
Why not take the plunge?
