20260116: Friday 16th January 2026: Pete Morton
£13.00
Sailor Swift Tour
Support: Polly Paulusma
At the Golden Hind, 355 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1SP
8pm (Doors open 7:30pm)
Entry: £14(door), £13(advance), £12(members).
Pete Morton: Sailor Swift Show: This new show of Pete’s is a tour de force, it is honestly a revelation, and a real joy, to see a performer at the top of his already deeply impressive game.
The premise of the show is that the friendly ghost of a sailor haunts an old pub, meeting and talking with people through the centuries, the famous and infamous, observing the changing world with a smile and a quick wit, singing popular songs from times gone by.
A happy mixture of music hall, pantomime, standup comedy, rowdy back room folk
clubs, with moments of utter beauty and breathtaking audacity, it is a unique experience. It’s full of laughter, singalongs, history, poetry, philosophy and life affirming fun.
"I was left in awe of Pete’s command of the huge amount of material the show contains, just one person with a guitar and a voice, keeping the carnival vibrantly alive for us all."
Pete Kenny
"Fiercely creative, skilful, talented and terminally unpredictable" Mojo Magazine
https://www.petemorton.com/sailor-swift
Polly Paulusma released her debut album “Scissors in my Pocket” to critical acclaim in 2004, and supported Bob Dylan and Coldplay as the album’s reputation grew. She has subsequently released four studio albums and four sister-albums, scored a film soundtrack, founded the Wild Sound record label, and produced records by other artists.
She has completed a literature/musicology PhD on the novelist Angela Carter’s folk singing. Her fourth album, ‘Invisible Music: folk songs that influenced Angela Carter’ renders this in musical terms.
Her fifth album, ‘The Pivot on which the World Turns’ (2022), and its sister album (2023) began developing a new style that incorporated spoken-word and song as one unit, leading to her extraordinary sixth studio album ‘Wildfires’, released in February 2025.
Between writing, recording and touring, Paulusma teaches songwriting and poetry for Cambridge University and songwriting for the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, where she is Associate Professor of Song and Literature.
“a marvel of subtly nuanced longform art in a world geared towards instant gratification” - Mojo magazine.