Murray Lachlan Young is one of the UK’s best-known performance poets, and will be familiar to Radio 4 listeners through his regular appearances as studio poet on Saturday Live.
He made his name as a writer and performer in rock clubs and underground cabaret venues in London in the 1990s before signing to EMI in 1997, releasing the album Vice and Verse.
He has appeared in several films: as the Gallows Poet in Plunkett and Macleane and also as the brother of Louis XIV in the film Vatel.
Murray lives in Cornwall, working on various projects including Modern Cautionary Tales for Children, a new poetry cycle for children, and on a live touring show.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.
Mister Gee is a co-winner of a Sony Gold Award for Radio as the resident poet on the Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2, and is the resident poet of the hit West-End musical Into The Hoods.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.