M19 Bar

• Starts at 7:30 pm
• Admission: FREE

Author Michael Madden www.michael-madden.co.uk launches his laugh out loud book Stags! "Drinking, Football, Women. A hilarious window into the world of blokes being blokes"...

The book launch forms part of the re-launch of m19’s infamous Open Mic night where anything can happen and often does! Levenshulme’s legendary Blues Guitarist – Zacc Rogers, fresh from his appearance at Colne’s Blues Festival will host the night and set the bar for the standard of entertainment on offer.

The night is open to any budding Comedian, Singer, Poet, Playwright, Author, Musician or Dancer to perform, to book at spot email your details to rockfest24@hotmail.com

Doors open 7.30pm, acts need to be registered by 9pm.

Open Mic starts at 8pm, Book Launch at 9pm followed by Open Mic

Stags! is a story that has been waiting to be told. Every year I organise a lads trip to somewhere, and the lads dont know where they are going until the morning of departure. This year it was Hamburg, last year Nice, and previously we have been to Riga, Krakow, Berlin, Cork, etc. What goes on tour stays on tour, except that most blokes cant resist talking about it.

Many years ago I read Frank Skinner's autobiography which I found to be hilarious. I looked in Waterstone's to find a suitable follow up, something light hearted to read on a beach, but the kind of humour I was looking for just didn't exist. "There is no market for it" was the claim of literary agents and publishers, but really there was no market for it because they didn't publish any books in that genre, therefore no market existed. A sort of vicious circle that I am determined to break. I have had great feedback, and the Kindle version has gained some good reviews, as well as appearing in Amazon's top 100 in the books, humour, fiction category, just below Roald Dahl and just above PG Wodehouse and Sue Margolis.

The finished article is a sort of "Nick Hornby meets Shameless", and I have already found that my readers are just as likely to be female as male (they cant resist the strap line - a hilarious window into the world of blokes being blokes).