Author and storyteller Mishka Shubaly comes to Plymouth

In November 2016, musician, best-selling author and storyteller Mishka Shubaly will embark on a tour of the UK, including a show at Plymouth's Underground on 21st, showcasing tracks from his well-received ‘Cowards Path’ album released through Invisible Hands Music. He was described by Johnny Depp as “Forever a favourite – sublime!” and by Doug Stanhope as “My personal hero!” Shubaly himself calls his work a “collection of depressing, alcoholic, nihilistic songs” and, whilst he’s correct, there’s hope here too amongst the piles of broken bottles, promises, dreams and bones. As Classic Rock Blues observed, “His brand of self-loathing bar-floor blues is about truths that are never pure, rarely simple, and often darkly amusing”.  Blues In Britain hailed his “Brutally frank dispatches from the gutter”.

Shubaly himself is a fully paid-up Anglophile and looking forward to the tour.  “I feel an unusual kinship with the English. Like you, I find Donald Trump terrifying and America worth mocking, even on a good day. I enjoy the fine foods available at your Tesco Express restaurants. And I feel so well-loved there, it's almost like the English have an intimate familiarity with drinking problems, depression, and a pervasive sense of personal failure. Plus, you guys call salad ‘rocket’! That's fucking awesome!”

A celebrated best-selling author with six No.1 Kindle ‘Singles’, having been translated into four languages and nearly 200,000 units sold, Shubaly’s last collection had a foreword by Jeff Bezos.  His new book, ‘I Swear I'll Make It Up to You’, described by The Guardian as “a great book with a great title” is out now.  Now clean and sober, and teaching at Yale Summer Session, Shubaly has replaced self-destruction with extreme marathon running [100 kilometre races]. As he says, “I am not a role model”, but, by documenting his time spent at the bottom of a bottle, with courage, wit and élan, Shubaly proves finally that the ‘Cowards Path’ is, in fact, anything but. Big Cheese praised him as “Honest, unique and absorbing… An incredible life and voice”.  Don’t miss these live dates.