Ever wanted to know what the veg get up to when your back is turned?

Our Little Bit of Country in the Town

The delights of the allotment shed, how scrap is magicked into paradise, and just what the vegetables get up to when your back is turned...

Writer and singer Sally Goldsmith spent a growing season with Sheffield's own urban peasants ? admiring giant onions, chooking hens, scribbling down recipes for roast beetroot, rooting around among scrap wood and old window frames, and finding out just why allotments are so addictive. Out of this she put together Plotters, a touring show and CD of 12 new songs. Premiered to sell-out audiences in Sheffield and Doncaster in October, the show is now touring the country.

The songs range in style from steamy tango to driving blues and include stories of sexy potatoes, uses for your unwanted stair carpet, and a hymn to the allotment shed.

"There is a stereotype of an allotment holder as an old man in a cap who shouts at you." says Sally, "but I met all sorts of people all using their allotments in extraordinary ways. I found artists, community campaigners, organic prophets, pigeon fanciers, women, children, therapeutic groups, old men of course, and some fantastic stories."

"Allotments are a world apart, away from the daily grind, the tax man, the TV, the Leisure Park. The people I met derived deep satisfaction from having their bit of land, putting their stamp on it, making it their own, protecting it - being urban peasants."

Plotters celebrates a special world ? from growing to gathering, from sprouts to slugs, from chemicals to compost. Stories, readings and projected images form a backdrop to the evening. Sally is accompanied by guitarist and singer Chris Foster and guest musicians. The project has received funding from the Arts Council in Yorkshire.

The "Plotters" CD can be purchased at the shows and online for £10 (including P+P in the UK) from

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To find out more about "Plotters", please contact

Musoswire PO Box 100 Gainsborough DN21 3XH UK

Tel 01427 628826 Email snipped-for-privacy@musoswire.com Web

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