Hello. I’d love to do a rural tour in your area. I’m a Dudley-born, brain-tickling, word-mangling comic poet and singer from North Cornwall. I combine clever word play and song with satire, parody and audience participation. I deal with such important topics as squid, the weather in Scotland, data-driven education, distressed furniture and my relationship with potatoes but often beneath the comedy lurk serious issues. I have appeared at arts, literature and folk festivals all over the British Isles and in Australia. I am a retired teacher and I have published three books of performance material and a book of children’s stories.
“This is not only clever but I also think it’s very funny.” (Mike Harding)
“‘Comic Poet’ it says on the card. That’s not the half of it. The man is a velvet tongued assassin, using charm and humour as a subtle lever to highlight life’s absurdities. It’s all very light and sing-along jocular – but this man is dangerously subversive and his show should be witnessed at all costs at your earliest opportunity. Bloody Funny.” (Barrie Dimond of Festivals for All at Beardy Folk Festival, Shropshire, June 2022)
“His head is well and truly located in ‘Planet Barratt,’ clearly a place of wonderfully bizarre inspiration.’’ (Coventry Telegraph)
“Rob revels in wily wordplay and rogue rhyming but his conceits & surrealist forays into the imagination take the ruddy biscuit. Hilarious!” Adrian Mealing (UK Touring and Spooky Men’s Chorale)
I am also an improv comedy actor in the group Holcomb, Barratt and Richey in Cornwall and I can offer a workshop on improv comedy for beginners. I am a long-standing member of Bodmin Folk Club where I frequently perform and MC. Please bear me in mind. You can call me on 01566 880336 or 07795461023.
