UPDATE: Bedsit Poets are on hiatus while the members are working on some solo projects. For further details, check out www.myspace.com/edwardrogers and www.myspace.com/amandathorpe Thank you for your support and encouragement.
Watch this space for further updates.
Cheers!
Bedsit Poets
The second Bedsit Poets album, Rendezvous, released by Bongo Beat Records, is OUT NOW in the USA, Canada, and the UK. Pick it up at a fine music retailer near you (if you can find one these days). For those of you in the NYC area, we recommend Other Music; you Brits should look for us in HMV. If that doesn't work, try Amazon, or head on over to .
Here are some live performance clips from the Rendezvous album release show at New York's Cutting Room (in order, "Daze for Love," "She's a Mystery," "Je Vie Ma Vie Dans Ma Facon," and "Hardened Ground'):
And here's a video for "The Summer That Changed"--the title track of our first album:
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After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
It's the video for our new single, "Brigitte Bardot".
It's starting to get airplay all over the place including Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ-FM in L.A. , and it just showed up on the NME's website! It's from our new album "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN", and it's available exclusively from iTunes and CDBaby. com
Hey Poets, Really enjoyed your Tin Angel Philly Show. Also, enjoyed the show at the Cutting Room in NYC. Nice production on your Myspace tunes. We had a great show last night opening for Smash Palace in Audobon. Check us out if you get a chance. - Joseph Harry Borrelli, 56 Men
thanks amanda for you lovely message all the best for you this year too...yes i can see we have coordinated influences, u band is cool...hope to play in NY one day, love your city!
Bedsit Poets, I absolutely loved your set on the Bowery Thursday - great songs, and harmonies that melted this Brooklyn boy's heart (not an easy thing, mind you!) Keep those sounds coming...
