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Spotlight: Maxwell Davies’ The Yellow Cake Revue
Friday 5 December 2025, 7.00pm
RNCM Carole Nash Recital Room

Programme
Peter Maxwell Davies The Yellow Cake Revue
- Tourist Board Song: O come to sunny Wharbeth
- Patriotic Song: You’ve heard of the man with the pacemaker
- Piano Interlude: Farewell to Stromness
- Recitation – Nuclear Job Interview 1: The Security Guard
- Uranium’s Daughters’ Dance
- Recitation – Nuclear Job Interview 2: The Truck Driver
- Atlantic Breezes
- Recitation – Nuclear Job Interview 3: The Mental Health Worker
- Piano Interlude: Yesnaby Ground
- The Terrorist Song: Have you heard of the terrorist suicide squad?
- Triumph of the Cockroach: As earthquakes subsided
Performers
Rachel Wheatley soprano
Scott Manson piano
About
Part song cycle, part musical theatre, Maxwell Davies’ The Yellow Cake Revue protests the threat of uranium mining on Orkney. This evening is a rare complete performance.
Tickets
Free admission, no ticket required
Promoted by RNCM.
This event will end at approximately 7.30pm.
FREE
Friday 5 December 2025, 7.00pm