Murray Lachlan Young | |
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 Murray Lachlan Young, Glastonbury Festival, 2019 | |
| Born | 14 March 1969 United States |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | British |
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Murray Lachlan Young (born 14 March 1969) is a British poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and children's author. He came to prominence during the Britpop era of the mid-1990s, when he became the only poet to sign a recording contract worth £1m.
Murray Lachlan Young was born the youngest of two boys in Washington DC, to a Scottish father and an English mother.[citation needed]
He was brought up in Sevenoaks, Kent, where he attended Wildernesse School, graduating from Salford University with a degree in media performance.[citation needed]
In 1998, he married singer Zoë Pollock and after moving to a smallholding near St Leonards-on-Sea, they had two children.[1] They moved to St Levan, Cornwall later in 2004, but separated in 2009.[citation needed]
In 2014, he married singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cavendish and set up home in Dalston, London, before separating in 2016.[citation needed]
Young lives in London.[1]
Since Young's early shows supporting such acts as Julian Cope, the Pretenders and Dita von Teese on the music and cabaret circuit in London, live stand-up poetry has been a key part of his career.[citation needed]
Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler magazine, writes "Murray is both an actor and a wit, a poet who can perform and a performer who can write poetry, rolled into one."[citation needed]
Live solo shows include:
Features:
Shorts:
In 2021, Murray Lachlan Young teamed up with Orbital's Paul Hartnoll for a lockdown inspired album called The Virus Diaries under the name Hartnoll & Young.[3][4][5] In June 2021, the pair released a single from the album called "Garden Centre (Push the Trolley)"[6][7] as a follow-up to "I Need a Haircut".
