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Ed Gaughan. Nationality. British. Occupation. Actor. Years active. 2004-present. Ed Gaughan is an English actor, director, [1] comedian, [2] voice actor and jazz musician. [3] He is best known for his starring role in the BAFTA-nominated 2010 film Skeletons and for voicing Baron von Greenback in Danger Mouse [4] and Q Pootle 5 in Q Pootle 5.
- Actor
- British
- 2004-present
Paul Gauguin. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin ( UK: / ˈɡoʊɡæ̃ /, US: / ɡoʊˈɡæ̃ /, French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential ...
- Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, 7 June 1848, Paris, French Second Republic
- 8 May 1903 (aged 54), Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
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Oct 21, 2010 · We are a writing-and-performing comedy double act who have been working together for the past 10 years. This year we found ourselves in the unexpected position of playing the lead roles in a film ...
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Gaughan was born in Glasgow's Royal Maternity Hospital while his father was working in Glasgow as an engine driver. He spent the first year-and-a-half of his life in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, after which the whole family moved to Leith, a port on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The eldest of three children, Gaughan grew up surrounded by the music ...
Gaughan's first album, No More Forever, was recorded in 1971. On it he sings and plays acoustic guitar, joined on some tracks by fiddler Aly Bain. All the songs except one are traditional, the exception being Hamish Henderson's "The John Maclean March", a tribute to the Glasgow socialist John Maclean and a foretaste of the many politically committe...
Gaughan resumed playing in 1980, collaborating with several other performers on the album Folk Friends 2 and with Andy Irvine on Parallel Lines(1982). His next solo album, Handful of Earth (1981) became, he said, his most successful in terms of acclaim and sales. It was Melody Maker's folk album of the year in 1981, and in 1989 was voted album of t...
By the early 90s Gaughan was again feeling the need to work regularly with others, so he invited seven other well-established Scots musicians to form a group called Clan Alba. The original line-up consisted of Gaughan, singer-guitarist Davy Steel, harpists Mary Macmaster and Patsy Seddon, multi-instrumentalist Brian McNeill, piper Gary West and per...
In the early 2000s Gaughan turned his hand to larger-scale composition and received two orchestral commissions from the Celtic Connections festival. The first, "Timewaves (Love Song to a People's Music)", mixed orchestral playing with folk singing and was performed at the 2004 festival by the Orchestra of Scottish Opera together with Gaughan and ot...
Gaughan sings in Scots (his first language), English and, occasionally, Gaelic. His voice has been described by some as "capable of turning from aching tenderness to the high dudgeon of political rage within the space of a line, or, on occasion, even in the turn of a single word". He plays guitar in a variety of tunings, using both flatpicking and ...
Gaughan has been the subject of three television documentaries in the UK: BBC Two's Spectrum (1982), Scottish Television's NB (1989) and BBC Four's Sessions(2008) (featuring a live performance and documentary footage). In December 2009 he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame and in February 2010 he received a Lifetime Achie...
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1. Kertalg '74(Barclay, 1974) (sings "Seven Yellow Gypsies", recorded live at the folk festival in Brittany (France) 1974). 2. The High Level Ranters: The Bonnie Pit Laddie (Topic, 1975) (sings "Bonnie Woodhaa" and "The Auchengeich Disaster"). These two tracks are also available on the CD versions of Gaughan (Topic, 1991) and The Iron Muse: A Panorama of Industrial Folk Song(Topic, 1993) 3. The Second Folk Review Record(Leader, 1976) (sings "Arthur McBride" and "The Rashie Moor") 4. Sandy Bel...
Ed Gaughan. Ed is a writer, actor, comedian, director and musician. He returns to Shakespeare’s Globe after composing the music for Hamlet (2022). He worked as a writer and starred in Nick Whitfield’s debut feature film Skeletons, which was nominated for a BAFTA, a BIFA and won The Michael Powell Award for Cinema at Edinburgh International ...
Dick Gaughan. Dick Gaughan is Scotland’s most passionate troubadour, a singer and guitarist whose performances both burn with a fierce conviction and smoulder with equally heartfelt compassion and invigorate audiences across the world with eloquently expressed conviction. Gaughan was born in Glasgow on May 17, 1948, while his father was ...
May 17, 2016 · DICK GAUGHAN (May 17, 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs. Gaughan took up the guitar at the age of seven. Although he later sang in Scottish Gaelic, he is not fluent in that language; he does, however, have a powerful command of Scots. Gaughan sang in Edinburgh folk clubs ...
