Arts writer
MR GEE, declared a “charming and politically articulate street poet” by London’s The Times, will be the supporting artist for superstar comedian, actor and author Russell Brand’s forthcoming SA shows as part of his Trew World Order Tour presented by Showtime Management in association with Phil McIntyre Entertainment, Radio 94.7 and Comedy Central. The production will travel to Montecasino, followed by the Grand Arena, GrandWest on Saturday, October 3 at 8pm
Mr Gee previously toured with Brand on the Messiah Complex Tour and he was the “poet laureate” for Brand's Sony Award-winning Radio 2 show. Fast becoming a household name in the UK, Mr Gee presents the BBC Radio 4’s Rhyme & Reason, Bespoken Word for which he received a Sony Award nomination, and Poetic Justice.
He is one of the current poets on Radio 4's Saturday Live, as well as the writer of current affairs poems for BBC regional radio.
On the musical front, Mr Gee won the 2014 Independent Music Award for best Spoken Word Song, Salvation by Fold. While Brand has been dubbed ‘the most exciting comedian of his generation’ by Time Out Magazine.
Brand began his career as a stand-up comedian, rising to fame in 2003 for his appearances on MTV and on Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother’s Big Mouth. His career really took off with his first nationwide stand-up tour, Shame, in 2006; which was released on DVD as Russell Brand: Live.
Brand launched his second nationwide tour in 2007, Russell Brand: Only Joking; released on DVD as Russell Brand: Doin Life’ and in 2009 he brought his stand-up comedy tour to the United States with Russell Brand: Scandalou s.
At this time, he also hosted countless award shows including the 2006 NME Awards, 2007 Brit Awards and he has hosted the MTV Video Music Awards three times in 2008, 2009 and 2012.
After his phenomenal success as a standup Brand turned his attentions to Hollywood where in 2008 he was seen as rocker Aldous Snow in the Judd Apatow-produced box office hit comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Since then he has starred in several films including Rock Of Ages, Arthur, Hop, Get Him To The Greek, Bedtime Stories, The Tempest, Paradise and the voice of Dr. Nefario in the hugely successful Despicable Me series.
Brand is also an acclaimed author, and has written two books, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs and Stand-Up, and the follow up, Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal. Another stand-up show was the critically acclaimed Messiah Complex, a DVD of which was released in December 2013.
Last October his best selling book Revolution was published.
This February Russell launched a YouTube series, The Trews, offering his own unique take on current affairs, which has rapidly grown to a million subscribers.
He also started a twice-weekly podcast, The Russell Brand Podcast, where he was reunited with his former radio partners Matt Morgan and poet Mr. Gee.
Russell opened The Trew Era Café in March 2015 on the New Era estate, a social enterprise community project funded by his profits from his Revolution book.
Note: The GrandWest show may contain course language and adult themes and is not recommended for children under the age of 12. PG advised.
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