T0599010175When 16 year old Janis Ian recorded the controversial hit Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) in 1967, few expected the subsequent eight year lull before the release of the platinum album Between the Lines. It featured the Grammy Award-winning single at At Seventeen plus the famed Watercolours and earned over 5 million dollars. Janis retired. Since that time, a chequered career has seen her writing for artists such as [Roberta Flack] and [Joan Baez] and developing a following amongst folk enthusiasts for her hard-hitting and forthright treatment of subjects such as wife-battering, eroticism and sixties nostalgia. | |
| 14 Nov 11 | City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds :: V973 listing details L2052324082 |
| 13 Nov 11 | Town Hall, Birmingham :: V803084951 listing details L1155272099 |
| 9 Nov 11 | Huntingdon Hall, Worcester :: V1402 listing details L172890986 |
| 5 Nov 11 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L1519201197 |
| 31 Oct 11 | The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead :: V1744216401 listing details L1711048277 |
| 30 Oct 11 | Queen's Hall, Edinburgh :: V603 listing details L2077487580 |
| 7 May 06 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L436926284 |
| 6 May 06 | The Coliseum, Aberdare :: V821 listing details L1796324924 |
| 2 May 06 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0414538047 |
| 13 Nov 04 | Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon :: V927 listing details L1835478803 |
| 1 Oct 04 | The Coliseum, Aberdare :: V821 listing details L887841500 |
| 1 Oct 04 | The Coliseum, Aberdare :: V821 listing details L0162815339 |
| 30 Sep 04 | Newark Palace, Newark :: V455 listing details L1258608997 |
| 28 Sep 04 | The Customs House, South Shields :: V575 listing details L1439223842 |
| 26 Sep 04 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L1891661440 |
T0606356934Who are the great songwriters in America today? Not the most popular. Not the richest. Simply the greats. Ask any student of the form, and Janis Ian will be counted among them. The writer of Jesse, a song recorded by so many others that few remember Ian wrote it; Stars, possibly the best song ever written about the life of a performer, recorded by artists as diverse as Mel Torme and Cher; and the seminal At Seventeen, a song that brought her five Grammy nominations (the most any solo female artist had ever garnered) in 1975, and which is now reaching its third generation of listeners. | |
| 3 Nov 11 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L050899625 |
| 1 Nov 11 | ARC, Stockton-on-Tees :: V01950064742 listing details L560650173 |
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| 4 Nov 11 | Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke :: V764 listing details L0520328997 |
| 8 Jun 00 | Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone :: V683 listing details L0709753606 |
| 7 Jun 00 | Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale :: V844 listing details L856016253 |
| 6 Jun 00 | Union Chapel, Inner London :: V253 listing details L0211262228 |
| 4 Jun 00 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L0112549036 |
| 3 Jun 00 | Huntingdon Hall, Worcester :: V1402 listing details L1007206007 |
| 1 Jun 00 | The Stables, Milton Keynes :: V1668325976 listing details L0538064882 |
| 31 May 00 | Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill :: V1417 listing details L0902531743 |
| 30 May 00 | City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds :: V973 listing details L01243740448 |
| 29 May 00 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L0388722357 |
| 27 May 00 | The Customs House, South Shields :: V575 listing details L1094710459 |
| 27 May 00 | The Customs House, South Shields :: V575 listing details L1796992045 |
| 25 May 00 to 26 May 00 | Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow :: V612 listing details L131687906 |
| 24 May 00 | Lemon Tree, Aberdeen :: V587 listing details L289923845 |
