Roald Dahl, Kate Nash, Spike Milligan, David Shrigley, Debbie Issitt, Berkoff, Missy Elliott, Little Britain, Peggy sue and the pirates, wesley,s.b,wendy cope, Stuart James, Luke Wright,Park Bench Poet and his snazzy little crew- bear and Roy,Lykee- Li, family guy, the simpsons, nighty night, josh weller, yanny mac, alexander g. muertos, gymbouree, willie smarts, jenny wilson, robyn, eminem, jay-z, stiff little fingers,the buzzcocks, kate tempest, byron vincent, edward monkton, Alim, Dizzy Rascal,SMOOSH, Aisle 16, Jilted John, Alicia from Misteeq, the c-pies, Nighty Night, Smack The Pony, John Osbourne,shumgum, Extras,cinema from all over the world, Tim Burton, Amelie, The Clash, Stuff like...err..looking out of windows,Shubz, being on the tube and talking to myself with the dicataphone,ross sutherland,chris sheperd, siobhan and lauren, rap, The Quiet Fruit,Lady Sov, Plan B even sometimes,Mr. FOX, Carol Ann Duffy, Shakespeare,kill bill, jurassic park, E.T, the man from the cafe, and rosie gains from the charity shop, my loopy mother, my punk rocker papa...but actually everything influences me..can you say that? and my little brother when he beatboxes because he is boom at it.
Laura Dockrill is a spoken word artist and illustrator from south London.
Raised by a family where eccentricity is the second thing checked by the nurse, on request, her moniker ’Dockers MC’ is enthralling.
Verbally drowning the audience with a treasury of words, she feeds the audience monologues of characters she had created with her ability to absorb traits of people by face, voice and observation alone.
She manages to collect pockets of words together to create a type of ’flo-etry’ that makes your brain tap its feet and smile at the same time.
Its Dockers’ clarity and hilarity combined that makes her talent immensely entertaining. Delivered in a captivating way that literally has the audience indulging on her every word, and vying to be caught in her dottily dressed eye contact.
As well as having an audience in the palm of her hand, her hands are also the second string to her bow.
At her fingertips she is blessed with an illustrative talent that not only consumes the on looking eye, but it is a pictorial overview of the slideshow in her mind.
Her drawings are enough to make you wish that ’see’ had invited his other 6 sense friends to get involved when she was drawing it.
Artwork for Kate Nash and Scroobius Pip have been the perfect expressive platform for her creativity.
This year has started well for Dockers MC, she was selected by the Times newspaper as one of the top 10 literary talents for 2008.
She is currently jaunting the country with fellow poet Luke Wright on his Poet and Man tour.
Most excitingly She has a CD/Book coming out later in the spring, on Pure Groove Records.
A treat for the eyes and ears is a rarity but she easily combines the two, usually wearing a colorful dress.
hey hey heyyyyyyyyyy we love ur stufff. we're comin to see you @ norwich arts centre its good be fittttt as! i saw you at uea with kate nash was soo good am lookin forward to it!
