Friday 11th April 2008

Ian McNabb + Special Guests
Ian McNabb is officially, according to the Liverpool Echo: “One of the people who make Merseyside great”
In good company, as ever… and as usual, Ian wears his star status with understated ease.
McNabb rose to prominence in the mid 80’s fronting the hugely successful ‘Icicle Works’. After two major hit singles and four top 40 albums on both sides of the Atlantic, the band split. His first solo release ‘This Way Up’ (1993) was rapturously received, and voted by Q readers as one of the best albums released during the magazines lifetime!

For his next album ‘Head Like A Rock, ‘ Ian famously teamed up with Neil Young’s backing band Crazy Horse to produce another top 40 hit and a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize.
In the 90’s, Ian toured with The Waterboys, and worked with the likes of Mike Scott, Anthony Thistleswaite (The Waterboys) and Danny Thompson (Pentangle). He released three more albums, including a solo acoustic offering ‘Live at Life’ (1999) and a eponymously titled collection of‘no-holds-barred’ rocking numbers.
Five more releases since 2000 has seen the McNabb army of dedicated fans increase continually, demonstrating the man’s uncanny ability to craft winning songs, a knack for melody, and a pop sensibility that always shines through. The last album ‘Before All Of This’ was previewed by a top 40 single and a new release ’How We Live’ was recorded live in 2007 over two sold out nights at the Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool)
2008 began at a pace with a performance at the biggest charity event of the year ‘The Number One Project’ celebrating the 56 number one hits by Liverpool artists. Ian also appears on the album with a cover of John Lennon’s ‘Woman’. There is a new album in the making, and an autobiography! Which promises to be a ‘warts-and-all expose of his 30 years (and counting) passage aboard ‘The Good Ship Rock n’ Roll.’
We have it on good authority that ‘the innocent will be treated fairly and the guilty will be charged!’ ….. Fear not the innocent.
Ian McNabb has to be seen to be believed. He is an original and one of the very best.
“The sweetest guy in rock n’ roll. A legend as far as I am concerned”
Alan McGee
www.ianmcnabb.com www.myspace.com/ianmcnabbtheicicleworks

Quality music & performance in one of the best, most intimate venues in the UK

Acoustica is an all seated venue www.acoustica-guildhall.co.uk
Tickets £10 advance/ £11 on the door
Box Office 01452 503050
Book online www.gloucester.gov.uk/guildhall