live appearances

Picture

“David Gaffney is a lovely, unselfconscious performer with a great artistic vision”
The Scotsman

upcoming performances
19 May Lass O' Gowrie with Les Malheureux
29 May Nottingham Contemporary, with Les Malheureux
26 May Chorlton Cricket Club, with Les Malheureux
27 May Chorlton Arts Festival 
14 August The Other Room, Manchester
29 September Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, with Les Malheureux

Check out my live literature and organ combo Les Malheureux


recent performances

6 May 2012: Sounds From The Other City Festival, Salford with Les Malheureux28 March 2012: Not The Oxford Literary Festival, Albion Beatnik, Oxford
17 February 2012: TV 21, Thomas Street, Manchester - with live organ music
6 February 2012: Cleator Moor Library

4 February 2012: Oldham Library
30 January 2012: Spellow Library, Liverpool

30 November 2011: Bad Language, The Castle, Manchester
19 November 2011: The Writer's Toolkit,
South Birmingham College
27 October 2011: Live Literature, Bolton Octagon
19 October 2011: Chester Literature Festival
16 October 2011: West Port Book Festival, Edinburgh
Read a review of David's Edinburgh reading here
6-12 October 2011: Birmingham Book Festival 
Sound installation Boy You Turn Me

28 September 2011: Quickies Smut Night at Didsbury Arts Festival
An evening of dirty stories at the Tennis Club

David has performed on BBC Radio Three and GM Radio, at a number of festivals (including Edinburgh Festival, Manchester Literature Festival, West Port Book Festival, Birmingham Book Festival, Chester Literature Festival, Wigan Literature Festival, Sefton Literature Festival and Lancaster Litfest), and at various venues, including: Chelsea Arts Club and Foyles in London; Royal Exchange Theatre, The Anthony Burgess Foundation, Whitworth Art Gallery, Urbis, Manchester Art Gallery and Central Library in Manchester; FACT, Whitechapel Gallery and Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool; Birmingham Conservatoire; Dukes Theatre and The Storey Institute in Lancaster, and The Continental in Preston.

David has also performed at… London: Bath House, Bountiful Cow, The Owl Book Shop and Reliance pub; Manchester: Britons Protection, Circle Club, Manchester Metropolitan University, Triangle Shopping Centre, Urban Folk Festival and Waterstone's; Bury: Waterstone's; Formby: Left Bank; Grasmere: Wordsworth Trust; Hull: Artlink Gallery; Leigh: Turnpike Gallery; Poole: Lighthouse Arts Centre; Rochdale: Town Hall; Walsall: Art College; Whitehaven: Rosehill Theatre.


To book David for performances, contact him here.

“Immediately engaging with his audience as he read from Sawn-off Tales, David Gaffney showed why he is an expert at delivering great live readings to back up the excellent books he writes”
The (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog

Home


  • Organ and drums
  • Les malheureux