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George Gordon Noel, the 6th Lord Byron, was one of the greatest British poets and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement. He was an eccentric who was described by Lady Carolyn Lamb, one of his many lovers, as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. It was an apt desciption for a character who regularly re-invented himself and created the template for what was to become, in a later age, the rock star. The Lord Byron 5 is a band of distinguished musicians dedicated to performing selected poetical works of Byron in an original and compelling musical and theatrical act. The brainchild of award- winning musician, composer and songwriter Craig Dawson, the show has been described as “gothic steampunk folk-rock”. Dark, funny, sexy and energetic, the characterisations reflect aspects of, and people from, Byron's short but turbulent and scandal-ridden life as the music varies from the sweetly lyrical “Lines Addressed to a Young Lady” through the black, brutally romantic “The Giaour” and all