Hovis in Wonderland will be performed at Matt and Phred's Jazz Club, Oldham Street/Tib Street Manchester at 7.00pm on Tuesday 8 July as part of the "Not Part of the Manchester Festival" Alternative Festival. Further information including ticket prices available from Dave Morgan at thisisnotparis@ntlworld.com from Monday 9 June.

Hovis on 4

On Tuesday 18 March at 11.30am BBC Radio Four presented, “Hovis has left the Building”. The brainchild of Mark Radcliffe, this affectionate tribute will be a must for all Hovis fans.

In this tribute programme, with generous archive material featuring Hovis performing his work, Mark, a fellow Boltonian, looks back at the career and personality of a talented individual who took the rare step of rejecting fame and fortune when it came his way. The programme features interviews with fellow performers such as Johnny Vegas, John Cooper Clarke, John Hegley, Lucy Porter and Badly Drawn Boy, alongside many friends and admirers of Hovis and his legacy. (Source BBC Press Office)
 
Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/Paul Bajoria

Hovis wins slam

In February in deepest Devon, Hovis Presley saw off Allen Ginsberg, TS Elliot, WH Auden and Thomas Hardy in the Totnes Dead Poets Slam. Represented by Elvis McGonagall, national slam champ, Hovis fan, and Radio 4 favourite, a short selection of gems led the audience to vote overwhelmingly for Hovis. Elvis confessed that no-one in Totnes knew of Hovis before the slam “but they do now!”

Hovis tribute dates

Hovis in Wonderland, Dave Morgan’s tribute to Hovis, will be playing at the following venues in 2008

Friday 28 March, Bolton Little Theatre, Hanover Street, Bolton, 8.00pm,

Friday 04 April, Manchester Royal Exchange, St Anne’s Square, 6.00pm

Wednesday 21 May, Forum 28 Arts Theatre, Barrow in Furness, 7.30pm  

A studio recording of Hovis in Wonderland has just been produced. Priced £5, the Hovis Presley Memorial Fund will receive £1 for each copy sold.