Comedy jazz and opera
The unlikely love-children of college choirs and the Cambridge Footlights, Adam Drew and Guy Hayward formed a Rat Pack act to blag tickets to May Balls, then started performing Drew’s material – which begat their post-choral satirical-croon duo, Bounder & Cad. An equally unlikely London debut followed, at the 10 Downing St Christmas party (where their version of ‘Me And My Shadow’ was vetoed but performed nonetheless).
Since then, they’ve sung in a rainstorm on Barbados’s Cobblers Cove; atop the Alps of Courchevel; on the tables of the Palazzo Corsini; aboard the Onassis yacht Christina O; and even in the library at Highclere. Their two commissions for BBC Radio 4Xtra made Pick Of The Year, and a TV series has been rumoured…
A little more about Adam and Guy
Adam Drew is also an actor, whose roles have included Emperor Nero, Spitfire ace George Beurling, and Boris Johnson – on Amazon Prime, Channel 5, and on the West End. As a screenwriter, he has a feature commission underway, and a TV series in development with the makers of Death In Paradise. He is also frontman of new disco-funk-rock band, Adam & The Apples.
Guy Hayward is the co-founder and director of the British Pilgrimage Trust and Choral Evensong Trust. He co-authored the book Britain’s Pilgrim Places, and has been interviewed about modern pilgrimage for Netflix, the BBC and Channel 4. He writes a column for the Idler, contributes to BBC Radio 4 and has written for the Guardian and Spectator.
