Murray Lachlan Young is one of the UK’s best known live/performance poets.

His career as a live poet over 19 years has spanned the worlds of rock-n-roll, publishing, feature film, Theatre, TV and Radio.

Recent Work:

• Commissions from: News Night, The Today programme and the Guardian newspaper.
• Radio 4 Pick of the Week success with: Ladbroke productions commission for a new folk ballad in The Loneliness of the Goal-keeper and The Thong, performed on Radio 4’s Bespoken Word.
• Continuing success with his live shows including two runs at the Soho Theatre and a rolling regional tour of Modern Cautionary Tales for Children.
• Repeated Radio 2 broadcasts (Radcliff and McCone) of his poem for Keith Richards- If Your Gonna Go Keith, Don’t Do It Like That.
• Sony Gold award success with BBC Radio 4's Saturday live
• You Tube ratings as top ten highest rated comedy performer for twenty weeks in UK. With over 100,000 hits on his you tube site.
• UK release, of Roland Joffe’s 2000 Film. Vatel with Murray in a lead role Opposite Gerrard Depardue.

Murray Lachlan Young made his name on the underground music and Cabaret scene in the mid-nineties in London. His first proper gig was a residency on Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope. His live style as a stand-up poet capable of transfixing audiences with a unique stage presence and a satirical angle on the pop zeitgeist brought him to the attention of the music industry.

His first project after signing a deal in 1995 with Herb Albert and Jerry Moss’s new label ALMO SOUNDS, Murray was put together with the unsigned band Morcheeba to record the now legendary Trip hop version of Simply Everyone’s Taking Cocaine. After this he worked on his first studio Album with Electro punk outfit Shriekback producer Marcus Dravs. Soon after this, Murray was given his own series on MTV USA recording a series of short films for the American market.

Success in the BBC2 coverage of Glastonbury moved his profile higher and as the press caught wind that he had signed an unprecedented million pound plus record deal with EMI UK he became a headline international media story.

Murray was given a BBC two special with Vice and Verse plus a deal for publication of his collection of poets entitled Casual Sex and Other Verse by Transworld Books. A writer performer role in a high budget advertising campaign for Virgin Atlantic and as Gallows poet in the cult classic movie Plunkett and McClain.

He toured with the pet shop boys, The Pretenders, Julian Cope and Morcheeba.Released three studio albums working with Shriek back, Brix Smith, Martin Chambers (Pretenders), Jonathan Perkins (Spiritual Cowboys) and multi-platinum producer Chris Thomas and Jools Holland. Played the main stages of numerous pop festivals including Glastonbury, Phoenix and ‘T’ in the park. His work has been released in: Italy, Holland, Germany and USA.

Other work includes, Commissions from:

• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre,London - to write and perform various pieces including a prologue to the Golden Ass.
• Brunell University - for a series of poems to be performed to music composed by Peter Wiegold based around the work of William Blake.
• Murray is currently a resident poet on the Sony Gold award winning radio 4 Saturday live program.
• He is touring a triple five star-reviewed family show Modern Cautionary Tales For Children.
• Writer of C’scape Dance Company’s current touring show. The highly acclaimed dark, Cornish dance comedy- Enjoy Your Stay
• Writing a memoir- the strange case of the million pound poet. Releasing his children’s comedy poem book The Nine Dead Williams