Less than two months before the premiere of the penultimate Outlander season, fans are in for a special treat as two stars of the time-travelling hit series are teaming up for a special event.
Andrew Gower, who famously played Bonnie Prince Charlie, talked to Express.co.uk about his upcoming London gig with his band Gustaffson.
The whole evening, we’re excited about, it’s not just a gig, it’s also a variety of things we really believe in as artists.
Andrew Gower will be joined on stage by Caitlin O’Ryan, who plays Lizzie Wemyss on Outlander.
[Caitlin] is an amazing spoken word artist and from a neighbouring northern town from Oldham, I’m from Liverpool. She’s opening the event and she’ll be performing some spoken word. […] It’s absolutely incredible. […] Similar to [Laoghaire MacKenzie actress] Nell Hudson, they both went to the same drama school as me. So we all went to The Oxford School of Drama.
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The event on Thursday, 27 April 2023 at The Lexington, London (UK) will be hosted by actor and BBC radio presenter Cel Spellman.
It will also feature an exclusive screening of short film F.O.G, written and directed by Malinda Kaur and starring Kiran Sonia Sawar (Black Mirror, Running Naked) Adeel Akhtar and Promilla Bittu-Safaya.
Gustaffson will further be supported on stafe by singer/songwriter Martha Goddard and Gaia Ahuja from Girls Don’t Sync.
At the event funds will be raised for the Al-Khidmat Foundation in Pakistan, which helps orphans and widows as well as giving students access to education.
I went back to do the season before last as the Bonnie Prince – and it’s really nice that some of the people I met at the premiere last year, I was never on set with them but we all just seemed to be a nice Outlander community, which is fantastic.
Even the likes of [composer] Bear McCreary from Outlander is responding to our work, so it’s been a really, really nice surprise for us.
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Like all the Outlander family, as we say, every time we bring out a single, he reaches out and congratulates us and asks if we need any advice.
If Bear McCreary picks up the phone and asks me to do anything, I’ll be there. We’re trying to get him over to our London gig at some point.
Andrew Gower added the following about what’s in store for Gustaffson in the future:
We’ve got some plans to be up north in Liverpool and Manchester but this is our first London gig. I’m so excited. It feels about time.
We’re ready as a band to show them what we’ve got.
We’re ready to make an album but it’s in the works, but as an unsigned band, we’ve got the people ready to collaborate with, we’re just keeping our fingers crossed that somebody out there gives us the means to make it.
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