Crispin Thomas - Words/Vox
Jeff The Fuse - Guitar B Vox
Guests: Paul Southcote - Fiddle/Harp
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Influences
CATS and Today.
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HUMAN INFLUENCES: Maharaji, Waterboys, Eddie Izzard, Lemn Sissay, Joni Mitchell, Sade, Spike Milligan, Kahlil Gibran, Basho, Rumi, Attila The Stockbroker, John Cooper Clarke, John Hegley, Murray Lachlan Young, Leonard Cohen, Benjamin Zephaniah, Billy Connolly, Gandhi, Matt Harvey, Lucy English, Rory Motion, Rory McLeod, A.A Milne, Lewis Carrol, , Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, C.S.Lewis, Hilaire Beloc, Christy Moore, Roy Of The Rovers, Micheal Eavis, Galstonbury ,Chumbawumba, , Kangaroo Moon, Seize The Day, Praying For The Rain, William Wordsworth, Tolkien , Robert Frost, Roger McGough, Norman Wisdom, Levellers, , Salif Keita, Baba Maal, WOMAD, William Shakespeare, Thompson Twins, Ian Dury, Nina Simone, Albert Nyathi , Youssou N'Dour, Herman Hesse, Thomas Mapfumo, Manu Chao, Daby Balde, Van Morrison, George Harrison, Martin Luther King, Jackson Browne, America, Loggins & Messina, Dylan ,Donovan, Ray Lamontagne, Seals & Crofts , Iron & Wine, Hazel O Connor , Temperance 7, John Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Superrman, Batman, Robin Hood, King Arthur, The Lone Ranger, Stroud and Jennie
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it's all made up as it goes along , but maybe with a bit of Viv Stanshall and the Bonzos meets John Cooper Clarke meets Eddie Izzard meets Adrian Mitchell meets Norman Wisdom meets Kahlil Gibran meets Danny Kaye meets Glastonbury 3am lying down in front of a sleepy loved-up audience of one . Look we can't all rant and rave, some of us have to go gentle out there. So this is me words, thoughts, feelings, ego, mind, body and soul trying to connect. So hello. Love the heart. Feel the beat.When it stops we are gone. Ouch! .What moves us? For me-love and life and working for a better one for all..There's a place for us ..isn't there?
Perfomance and Football Poet dubbed “Eccentric!” by Central TV , expect lunched out mayhem from Stroud’s own maverick GM-free rhymey type wordsmith . Crispin divides his life , like half-time oranges - between running A World Music & Roots Agency (CTM www.ctmuk.com) for Hazel O'Connor, Imbongi, Craobh Rua, Lolou, Daby Balde, Chimanimani, Johnny Coppin & Moya and keeping together solo/band performances and football poetry workshops . Witty, perceptive. totally mad, but always at the cutting edge of fluff , I've appeared in/written 'The Poet Strikes Back’ - (Star-Wars in poetry and music ) at the Everyman Theatre,Cheltenham , and caused poetic havoc with festival audiences at Glastonbury, , Bracknell, Lichfield Green Fringe, Big Green Gathering,Cheltenham Festival Of Literature, Bristol Poetry Festival, Warminster Book Festival, Stroud Fringe, Larmer Tree, Malborough, Tiverton and Arlingham Festival. .His latest live CD ‘The Power of Fluff’ was recorded at Larmer Tree Festival and his first album: 'On One' on Solar Power in the Croissant Neuf Tent at Lichfield-Bless!
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Impossible to pigeon-hole , 100% original and a master of the ad-lib , he's performed on radio, HTV Wales (“Fresh”), BBC 1 ('Inside Out' & 'Match of The Day 2' , Central TV and in March 2000 on Channel 4 TV in 'Avalon', filmed at Glastonbury Festival. Crispin comperes at festivals,and as has performed at the Royal Festival Hall as editor of the acclaimed Football Poets website, recently archived by The British Libraryand featuring 10,000 football poems. For the past 8 years, Crispin has run poetry workshops with children and adults across the UK within communities, schools, prisons and at football grounds including Chelsea FC for four years. Using football, humour, raps, chants and poems, his goal is to inspire and encourage reading and the written and spoken word . He's even waxed lyrical on tackling racism at the FA HQ in Soho and the House of Lords for Kick It Out! In 2005 and 2006 Crispin was invited by the British Council to run workshops and perform in Porto and Berlin. He also once introduced Rolf Harris to an audience of 20,000 at Glastonbury , dressed as Darth Vader and managed to knock over two of his amps in the process...you get the picture!........... .....................
“A Car-Bootful of Organic Words ,Roots & Nonsense!” Cheltenham Fest Of Lit
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..?
On June 8, 1967, a date which will live in infamy, a United States ship, the USS Liberty, was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the State of Israel. Thirty-four American sailors died and 174 were wounded. There was no retaliation, no honest investigation, and no assistance from American forces. Israel got away with cold blooded murder.
On September 11, 2001, planes struck the two WTC towers, and shortly thereafter both towers fell. But did you know that a third large building also collapsed on September 11 at 5:20 in the afternoon and that this building, WTC 7, wasn't even hit by a plane? What could have caused such an unusual collapse, which had all the characteristics of a controlled demolition? Again, there has been no honest investigation.
If the Israelis got away with deliberately slaughtering innocent Americans on the USS Liberty, then what's to stop them from doing it again? What other terrorist crimes against humanity might they also have gotten away scot-free with? Click to learn more.
Thanks so very much for your friendship! Love, seek, and speak the truth!
I'm really excited to have uploaded to myspace my first
video! It's called 'A Day At The Country
Show'. I'd love you to check it out and
let me know what you think.
We're playing at The Thekla in Bristol tomorrow night. We hope you can come. Its a special multi-media show with a vj mixing footage from Baka land with live film and effects. Come and dance and spread the word to your friends. It'll be a great night.
We'll be playing songs from our new album "Baka Beyond the Forest" as well as some old favourites. Its the 5-piece line up featuring Molara, Fela Kuti's niece and the original voice of Zion Train, joining Su on vocals.
You can hear clips on our website (www.baka.co.uk) and our Myspace page.
It starts early (7.30pm) so don't be late!
One Love!
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.
Minute Prologue I've been listening to all the dissension I've been listening to all the pain And I feel that no matter what I do for you It's gonna come back again But I think that I can heal it But I think that I can heal it I'm a fool but I think that I can heal it with this song.
Leonard Cohen (he does heal with his golden voice)
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
aha! same circles.... yes, I used to dance for Kangaroo Moon, and I was the dancer for Global, we always used to play CN at Glasto every Sat nite.... them were t'days... and friends with FOS, STD, (not Sexually Transmitted Disease, I mean Sieze The Day), and PFTR etc etc Sally still running CN, with her son, not sure if Andy doing it this year... its in the most AMAZING spot near Usk, with iron age hilltop an all... very magical c u there...? !
Yes, it was raining. No, it wasnt Glasto 84 - but the toilets couldve been left over from then. (August in Wales, 2007, what can one expect?) [Croissant Neuf Summer Party, to be precise. You gotta go! they would love ya. Check em out, they are on my friends list and looking for performers.] do you come to Devon at all? Would like to visit ye luvverly olde towne of Stroude some time ... x
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