Poems, classic and obscure, are given a new voice in songs crafted by South London band LiTTLe MACHiNe: Walter Wray, Steve Halliwell and Chris Hardy. Acoustic instruments, strong melodies and watertight harmonies create songs that draw on a thousand years of poetry from the Medieval to the Metaphysicals, the Romantics to the modern. William Carlos Williams, Blake, Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy…all get the treatment. Poetry is the best words in the best order and LiTTLe MACHiNe have been just as careful in creating new music that can move the feet for words that move the soul.

Walter Wray has spent a lifetime hollering the blues, crooning tunes as a solo artist and in bands such as Junk from Sheffield and 90s stadium rock poseurs King Swamp.

Steve Halliwell also played in King Swamp and was a session musician in the post punk world of Shriekback and other arthouse denizens.

Chris Hardy is a prize-winning poet and experienced folk-blues guitarist and song-writer. He has performed in every sort of venue from the Peel show via the Colston Hall to a pub near you.

 

Our Repertoire

ADAM LAY A’BOUNDEN (Anon)
AH SUNFLOWER (Blake)
A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER (Donne) – listen or download
ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH (Owen)
AS I WALKED OUT ONE EVENING (Auden) – listen or download
BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS (Houseman)
BRIGHT STAR (Keats)
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT (D. Thomas)
FEAR NO MORE THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Shakespeare)
KUBLA KHAN (Coleridge)
LONDON (Blake) – listen or download
MADAM LIFE’S A PIECE IN BLOOM (W.E.Henley)
MEANTIME (Carol-Ann Duffy) – listen
MEDIOCRITIE IN LOVE REJECTED (Carew) – listen or download
OZYMANDIAS (Shelley) listen or download
RED WHEEL BARROW (W. Carlos-Williams) listen
SANTA FE (Kavita Jindal) listen or download
SO WE’LL GO NO MORE A’ROVING (Byron) listen or download
SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES (Dylan)
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE (Yeats) listen or download
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK (Eliot)
THE MOON AND PLEIADES (Sappho)
THE POET OFFERS HIS WARES (John Rety)
THE RAIN IT RAINETH EVERYDAY (Shakespeare) listen or download
THIS BE THE VERSE + HIGH WINDOWS (Larkin) listen
WESTERN WIND (Anon) listen or download