What’s on in Malton:

Time Out: 1000 things to do in Britain.

“Catch a performance in The Shed…”

“Near the market town of Malton on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, The Shed is one of few venues in the country with a location as inspiring as its programme of live music and performance art. The latter’s affinity with the surreal end of the creative spectrum is largely thanks to the boundless imagination of its creator, Simon Thackray, whose ideas are often too large to be limited to his makeshift stage: in 2004, for example, he had jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill touring North Yorkshire market towns in a skip; one year earlier, improvising trombonist Alan Tomlinson did likewise in a fish and chip van, serenading customers as they queued for portions of battered cod. Other weird and wonderful outings have involved everything from knitted Elvis wigs to rowing down the river in over-sized Yorkshire puddings, although of course there’s plenty making more conventional use of the 100-capacity Shed’s candlelit interior – from the live comedy of Stewart Lee and the spoken word poetry of regular collaborator Ian McMillan to all manner of world, classical, jazz, blues and folk music.”

Simon Thackray art events – ‘the essence of Shedness’:

Sebastian Rochford’s VAN GIG

Art event copyright Simon Thackray. Photo: Kippa Matthews

Sebastian Rochford drumming in the back of a white van in Leeds, York, Malton, Pickering, Kirkbymoorside and Helmsley. “Everywhere you look people have got smiles on their faces…”. Jules Bellerby, Jonathan Cowap Show, BBC Radio York. Read Charles Hutchinson’s review:

Alan Tomlinson and the River Seven.

Art event copyright Simon Thackray. Photo: Tony Bartholomew

“HOW did you spend your Sunday? How about driving for an hour into ever hardier Yorkshire country; following intermittent improvised signs to the River Seven, down the narrowest of moorland lanes; then watching cars being pushed up a muddy incline to park in a field, before a cross-country trek to a babbling brook.” Read the review:

Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race ®

“I muse on the idea of future cultural historians citing a shed door as the fulcrum of a rural arts renaissance” Ian McMillan