Name: Ten Plagues
Brand: Marc Almond

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

sfe034d

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

CD & DVD

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-07-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929844421

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Marc Almond

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Cherry Red

<p>Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.</p>

<p>Marc Almond is a UK singer, songwriter and performer. He was born on 9 July 1957 in Southport, Lancashire. In recognition of his contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service, he was awarded an OBE (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours list in 2018.</p>

'Ten Plagues' is an award winning one-man song cycle written especially for Marc Almond by celebrated playwright Mark Ravenhill ('Shopping And F**king', 'Mother Clap's Molly House' and 'The Cut') with the accomplished musical dramatist Conor Mitchell. 'Ten Plagues' is presented here in a special 2-disc package including an all new studio recording of the complete work as well as a DVD of the live stage show filmed at the historic Wilton's Music Hall in East London. 'Ten Plagues' tells the intense story of one man's survival through the great plague of London in 1665 whilst drawing poetic parallels to more modern epidemics. Marc Almond plays a character wracked by the loss of friends, lovers, family and sanity in a city in the midst of crisis and disease. He tries to hold on to his humanity despite mourning, grief, despair and the physical isolation that the plague necessitates. 'Ten Plagues' in turn conjures up our reactions to more contemporary pandemics: for example, the fear, hysteria and prejudice about the first victims of AIDS, at the outset referred to as a 'gay plague'; those who suffered were afraid, isolated and made to feel outcasts of society.

Ten Plagues

Music GB