BLAKESPEARE is BACK! A maverick randomist pairing of Blake and Shakespeare in musical form, looking forward to celebrating William Blake's 251st birthday. He might be getting on, but his words live long, and Shakespeare won't disappear no matter how many times you clobber him with an RP-swaddled mallet.
Blakespeare is centred on contemporary musical reinterpretations of Blake and Shakespeare ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, exploring how we can work alongside these colossi and continue tracing the energy into new areas.
Sigh No More - arranged & performed by Billy Wobbledagger & His Two Noble Kinsmen. Live at Blakespeare, The Perseverance 21-06-06
The Sick Rose - arranged & performed by Niall McDevitt & Liza Hayden. Live at Blakespeare, The Perseverance 21-06-06
The Tyger - arranged & performed by Michael Horovitz. Live at Blakespeare, The Perseverance 21-06-06
The Continuing Saga of Billy Blake and Willy the Shake (part one) - written & performed by Jazzman John Clarke. Live at Blakespeare, Moonbow Jakes 04-06-06
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
One of the highlights of the Vortex London Jazz Festival – TIME OUT
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics
Alex J Ward - clarinet
Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Steve Noble - drums
And thus we graduate three hundred and sixty degrees through the trees, into a mysterious clearing where lies a tranquil, moonlit pool of sounds to heal the soul and satisfy your sensorium with spells, synchronicity and symbolism.
Many thanks for the add. I hope you get the opportunity to read my best selling satirical book about Shakespeare for no other reason than it's really annoying the crap out of the purists everywhere. Result!
that thing is doing my head in. but i like it. can't believe we're gonna miss Blake things on Wednesday, but I see there's lots more going on this week so may come along to some of that...jess xx
The next two Salt Margins at The Whitechapel Gallery are unmissable. Hope to see you there!
Thursday 2 August
Luke Kennard Laura Forman Adam Green The Ex-Men
At 26 Luke Kennard is the youngest ever nominee for the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. He reads from The Harbour Beyond The Movie, his outstanding
second book. Lazy Gramophonite Adam Green reads from Satsuma Sun Mover, a surreal coming-of-age tale. Generation Txter Laura Forman performs poems about Bon
Jovi (yes!) and Battersea Power Station. Plus music and spoken word from Glasgow-based duo The Ex-Men. Doors 7pm, free entry. Produced in association with
Salt Publishing.
Thursday 20 September
Melanie Challenger Eleanor Rees Chris McCabe Songdog
Salt poets Eleanor Rees (Andraste's Hair) and Melanie Challenger (Galatea) have both been nominated for this year's Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Which is reason enough to come and hear them read. Like Eleanor, Chris McCabe is a Salt poet and a Liverpudlian. His collection The Hutton Inquiry is a
powerful examination of language under pressure. Musical refreshment is provided by the excellent Songdog, led by playwright Lyndon Morgan.
How do?
Are you coming to our next night in Hoxton? It's FREE ENTRY and you even get a free CD if you get there early enough. How's about that then?
LQM
xx
Image of Lismullen national monument discovered, with national monument of Rath Lugh in background
Make Submissions to Minister Roche now!
Submissions can be a one page letter. Please state specifically that the mail is meant to be a submission to him, as he decides on the fate of the national monument.
It would be better to email the submission to both the Ministers e-mail addresses; minister@environ.ie and dick.roche@oireachtas.ie
But be sure to send a hard copy to the Minister as well, to:
Dick Roche, TD.
Minister for the Environment,
Customs House,
Dublin 2.
Call on Public to Make Submissions to Minister Roche
TaraWatch is urging the public to make a submission of their own to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dick Roche, on his decision on how to proceed with the M3 motorway, in light of the new national monument discovered in Lismullen, Tara. We are asking him to preserve the site, under 14A(4)(d)(i). The reason we say the Minister MUST preserve the site, in situ, is due to the national and international importance of the site.
As the Minister for Heritage, Roche has a constitutional duty to give the highest level of statutory protection possible. The National Roads Authority (NRA) had failed to find the massive site before now.
The heritage of Ireland should not be so massively diminished due to the acts of the NRA. The Act specifically provides for this situation, and gives the Minister the power to do preserve the site.
Many alternatives are available to the Minister and the NRA for rerouting the M3, or replacing it with a more sustainable solution.
Submissions can be a one page letter. Please state specifically that the mail is meant to be a submission to him, as he decides on the fate of the national monument.
It would be better to email the submission to both the Ministers e-mail addresses; minister@environ.ie and dick.roche@oireachtas.ie
But be sure to send a hard copy to the Minister as well, to:
Dick Roche, TD.
Minister for the Environment,
Customs House,
Dublin 2.
FOURTEEN SHOWS, SIX POETS, ONE VAN…
… YES, IT’S GENERATION TXT
Following the success of acclaimed new poetry anthology Generation Txt, penned in the margins is taking the six gifted young poets featured in the book on a national tour to fourteen venues. Hand-picked from a nationwide search for writing talent, the poets include former Northern Young Writer of the Year Emma McGordon and celebrated performance poet Inua Ellams, as well as Joe Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine has just been snapped up by Hamish Hamilton. Natural Sciences graduate Laura Forman, creative writing student Abigail Oborne and experimental poet and text artist James Wilkes complete the bill.
Hailed by distinguished poet and critic Roddy Lumsden as 'a vital cross-section of the poetry that will progress and flourish' and by the TES as 'a creative ideas manual', the Generation Txt tour will be a must-see event for anyone interested in the future of literature.
May 17 – GREAT TORRINGTON Plough Arts Centre
May 18 – SWINDON Festival of Literature
May 19 – STROUD Artspace
May 22 – LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre
May 24 – MAIDENHEAD Norden Farn Centre for the Arts
May 25 – OXFORD Playhouse
May 26 – MANCHESTER Contact Theatre
May 28 – LIVERPOOL The Pilgrim
May 29 – DURHAM Gala Theatre
May 30 – NEWCASTLE Lit & Phil
June 1 – BIRMINGHAM MAC
June 2 – NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre
June 3 – CAMBRIDGE JE Wilson Drama Studio
June 5 – BRIGHTON Earth & Stars
Hi! I’m Generation Txt, the acclaimed new anthology of poetry featuring Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Emma McGordon, Abigail Oborne and James Wilkes.
'The current generation of poets under 30 sees the factional stances which lead their predecessors as petty and limiting. Generation Txt looks at all points of poetry's star and is less concerned with the middle ground, which makes this selection of young writers more vital and a truer cross-section of the poetry that will progress and flourish.' Roddy Lumsden
