An evening with Jakko Jakszyk hosted by Stewart Lee Friday 11th October 2024
19th September 2024Jakko…“I’m a huge admirer of Stewart, so I’m thrilled he’s agreed to be part of this evening. Indeed he once wrote of my one man show in Edinburgh, that I should ‘stop wanking on about being an orphan like a loser’ so he’s clearly the right man for the job!”
Doors 7.30pm | 8.30pm start
Limited tickets available to purchase from here
Stewart Lee, one of the UK’s most formidable comedians, is to host An evening with Jakko Jakszyk. Taking place on 11 October at the West Hampstead Arts Club (NW6), it is an evening that celebrates the release of Jakko’s new memoir – ‘Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? The Unlikely Memoir of Jakko M Jakszyk’ which is published the day before (10 October).
Jakko Jakszyk is an award-winning, world renowned and celebrated musician, best known for being lead guitarist with Level 42 in the 1990s and as lead singer and guitarist for the founding fathers of progressive rock, King Crimson, since 2013. His counterpart for the evening, Stewart Lee, is one of the UK‘s most celebrated comedians of the past thirty years. His delivery, deep thinking and uncompromising dialogues set him apart from his peers and is set to make this a very special event…
Jakko…“I’m a huge admirer of Stewart, so I’m thrilled he’s agreed to be part of this evening. Indeed he once wrote of my one man show in Edinburgh, that I should ‘stop wanking on about being an orphan like a loser’ so he’s clearly the right man for the job!”
An evening with Jakko Jakszyk will be a unique and intimate event. There is a very limited number of tickets left to purchase and these are available from here
In his new memoir – ‘Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? The Unlikely Memoir of Jakko M Jakszyk’ published by Kingmaker Publishing on 10th October – Jakko reveals much more to his story than you may expect from your usual “rock-star” biography.
A superb raconteur, Jakko tells the story of his life and his experiences both in and out of music and entertainment. From the harrowing stories of his adoptive parents’ lives during World War II and finding and meeting his birth mother and self-proclaimed ‘white supremacist’ step-siblings, to stories, encounters and working with Michael Jackson, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard, Jack Charlton, Audrey Hepburn, the Dalai Lama and crossing swords with Millwall Football Club’s dodgy director Reg Burr.
An evening with Jakko Jakszyk is an opportunity to hear Jakko talking first hand about the book, his life and to ask questions about his moments in music that, as a 14 year old, he could never have believed, but likewise dealing with his life journey that has presented a constant challenge.
‘Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? The Unlikely Memoir of Jakko M Jakszyk’ is about origins, identity and who we become. It’s about a kid who found solace in music when the very sense of who he was left him floundering. It is about how his journey to discover his family allowed him to reflect on who he could have been had he not been given away at birth.
