Cask Strength

Stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster, armchair revolutionary and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall resides at the Graceland Caravan Park just outside Brigadoon where he scribbles satirical verse while drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash.Two series of his sitcom Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, where he appears regularly as well as popping up now and then on the telly. Elvis is the 2006 World Slam champion, the compère of the Blue Suede Sporran Club and performs at literary and music festivals, comedy and cabaret clubs, pubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad. He also gigs and records with his band The Resurrectors, "an unholy marriage of whisky-soaked, radical, stand-up poetry and Caledonian punkabilly rock 'n' roll" and occasionally moonlights as Chairman Wow, chief word-slinger and vocalist with funk collective The People's Republic of Groove.A deftly witty wordsmith, sharp and subversive but not afraid to be plain daft, Elvis has been kicking down the rotting doors of power since 2003. And look at the state of the world now. So that's 23 years of ruined footwear and not the slightest hint of a glorious revolution to show for it.Two previous collections of his poems have been published by Burning Eye Books - Viva Loch Lomond! (poems from 2003 to 2017) and Complete & Utter Cult! (poems from 2017 to 2020). With this third volume Elvis McGonagall continues his journey along the long, winding, potholed road from the Slough of Despond to showbiz El Dorado. Without a Sat-Nav. Or map. Or even a shoogly walking stick.www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk