Sleepy Rise plays 'blood on the splinters' at our CrawDaddy gig
Mike and Sleeps dyin 'a death upon the stage or screen' in crawdaddy... watch how i forget the line that is the title of the poem! durrrrr
Niall, Niall & Addy
Addy & Michael Willow
Those people there
Addy & Michael Willow 2
Mike
Keith
Birch
James Kelly
Music
The Libertines, Peter, Bjorn & John, Bright Eyes, The Rakes, Simple Kid, The Flaming Lips, The Arcade Fire, Dirty Pretty Things, Kings of Leon, Klaxons, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash, The Horrors, Larrikin Love, Outkast, Pulp, Patrick Wolf, The Fratellis, The Long Blondes, Babyshambles, The Kooks, The Maccabees, Arctic Monkey, Morrissey, The Smiths, The View, The Young Knives, Franz Ferdinand, Gogol Bordello, Bob Dylan, Addy Dillon, The Beatles, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Joy Division, Stee Dizzle and N O'Bizzle
Movies
Love Poetry Hate Racism Dublin, our finest, messiest moment.
Moloch, great online magazine
Baby Beef - new Dublin fanzine, please add & support
Television
Not mad into television, except for:
Worth making an exception for!
Books
Howl - Allen Ginsberg
The Wasteland - T.S. Elliot
Moy Sand & Gravel - Paul Mudoon
Heroes
'Those who have burned, those still aflame, and the countless un-named' - Saul Williams
Naked Lunch is a poetry/music open mic night, experimental, expanding and running art into the ground every other Wednesday night upstairs in Feile Bar, on Dublin's main leisure strip, Wexford Street.
Here's the dates between now and 2010:
Wednesday 9th September 2009
Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Wednesday 7th October 2009
Wednesday 21st October 2009
Wednesday 4th November 2009
Wednesday 18th November 2009
Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Wednesday 16th December 2009
All dates are at:
Upstairs @ Feile Bar,
Wexford St.
Dublin 2
8:30pm
You don't need to book in advance to perform, just turn up on the night. Performances are limited to 2 poems or songs, in order to make sure everybody who turns up gets a chance to perform.
Past acts have included makeshift bongos, jazz flute, singer songwriters, story tellers, up and coming Irish rappers, poetry read off mobile phones, beer mats and toilet rolls, transgender country hoedowns, violins, acapellas, me, you and the other fella.
We’ve featured several amazing poets in our time, great Irish hopes and bright talents such as Dave Lordan, Aoife Mannix & Orla Martin, visiting performers such as Gina Ferrara from New Orleans, or Perciphone Petticoat and Alabaster DePlume from the UK, and we want to provide a regular platform in Dublin for every level of poet - from outright beginners up to regular performers, we want everybody to feel at home at Naked Lunch.
Musical talent has been equally varied, Sleepy Rise, 15 Minutes, Addy & The Gallery, Go Go Go, Dylan Walshe, Stephen Masterton, Alabama 3, Michael Willow, Bits and David M Garrell are just a few of the countless excellent performers who have featured. old faces will always be welcome to return as often as they like.
Our minds are wide open, and this is a perfect place for people who aren't too comfortable performing their music-verse-prose live to get to grips with performance in a friendly, welcoming atmosphere. The most important thing to us is, and will always be, that both performers and audience have a fun night, and go home happy and stinking of drink.
We operate under a rapid fire system, everybody who wants to perform puts their name on the list, and we work through the list with one performance each. We alternate between poems and songs to keep things interesting. Once everybody has performed once, we go through the list again, so everybody gets 3 or 4 performances, spread out over the night.
Everybody is welcome, to watch, or to perform. We don't deal in sneering elitism and everybody who wants a turn at the mic gets a turn at the mic. Promise. And if you can think of it, whatever it may be, we'll let you try it, in front of a super cool audience who are very supportive to beginners.
Plus, we'll take you back to our gaff for cans/coffee afterwards.
It's free in, it's free to perform, and it's a bloody good laugh.
Hope to see ya there!
Mike & Niall
Email: dublinpoetry@gmail.com
Who I'd like to meet:
Mike's poetry is hosted here (as well as on myspace):
Addy music is now here, with thanks to the right hon. Desmond Swords for making recordings happen...
Hey hey! Thanks a mill. Glad you liked it. Had a blast on Wednesday too. Doing new songs is fun. More fun when they work out! See you in fortnight chief. By the by the Naked and Hungry cd is brilliant! Definitely one of the sweariest cds I have ever played hahah. I can practically sing along with some of the poems now (does one sing along with poems or does one speak along? eitehr way - hurrah!). Well done!
This Friday 28th of August, I'm playing Pravda (Lower Liffey Street) in support to Blanca Transfer & in association with Club Fear... it's free in and should be a great night!! Thanks for reading & for all your support!!
Roy
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Cheers for last night- thoroughly enjoyed myself with your band of gypsies...hope to see ylou all again sometime! xxx Cyndi D. PS- come on over to my page and stay in touch!
if you happen to be in the big shamoke tonight, we are supporting Ruthie Foster in Whelans. We hit the main stage at 8.15pm which is a tad early mais c'est la vie.
Tip: get your special edition discounted ticket from the blond girl wearing a polka-dot scarf reading Ulysses at the end of the front bar between 7 and 8pm.
There will be a limited guest list for this evening mail back to delayguestlist@hotmail.com with inigo kennedy in the title leaving your details and where you heard about the night.
Hello Naked Lunch! Thank you for posting up the dates of the mic nights. Very much appreciated. Very much looking forward to coming along to one of the evenings. And looking forward to meeting you. Will be nice to say hello to you. Ciao for now, K
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