Take an ensemble of weird and wonderful instruments, add some charming, wistful, haunting tunes, stick a Barnsley-accented poet on top, and you’re halfway to imagining what the Ian McMillan orchestra sounds like. Their leader is something of a Renaissance man: a poet, comedian and broadcaster of whom comedy/folk legend Mike Harding has said “he’s such a talented bloke, I could kill him”. Mr McMillan has surrounded himself with some equally talented musicians toting such oddities as a hurdy-gurdy, nyckelharpa and mandocello (no, me neither). The poems he recites over the top of this musical mêlée are on subjects ranging from the Russian weather to talking animals via reminiscences about the milkman. The whole thing feels a bit like a Tardis ride to 1346 with Kate Rusby, Stephane Grappelli and Ivor Cutler for company. The Orchestra believe that words and music “inhabit the same tent. And it’s a big tent”. There’s always room for one more tent at Greenbelt... Factoid no.1: orchestra member Luke Carver Goss wasn’t in Bros. Factoid no.2: cats make Ian McMillan sneeze. In a word: eclectic