Daniel Rovira: Like a mixture of Gandhi and Andy Pandy! Fast rhyming improvisor, hard hitting, emotion twisting thought provoking slam smasher! Dan is a writer with many faces, currently doing his MA in modern literature Dan is also a plawright.
Fleassy: Empowering, concious and uncompromising poetry, in your face and fresh from heart and soul. Fleassy has jumped headlong into the world of spoken word, and has graced both sides of the pond with her presence.
Ashley ffrench: Ginger bearded positive thinker, energetic and challenging with unusual concepts and strange fascinations. Ash only tapped into the slam poetry world a short time ago, and since has performed at slams, pubs, bars and clubs as well as streets and living rooms. Ash co-runs the performance art event known as "Horseplay"
Three Brighton based slam poets all with different styles come together in a collective that embraces the community.
The Jukebox poets came together through various gigs, jams and slams, all admiring one anothers work, and hungry for more performance opportunities and new concepts.
The poets all come from different backgrounds, beliefs and view points. This promises a varied show, filled with collaboration and confrontation, reinstating the true beauty of unity and community.
Pushing the poetic envelope, Juke Box Poets are energetic, inventive poets - that not only do single and team pieces but also do guerilla poetry around town (with the community) and explosive improvisatory sets unseen before in the city. With a vision to challenge all that poetry is, this collective offer dynamic experimental poetry that will get you thinking. Its not your usual poetry gig, its not even usual for an energetic slam poetry or hip hop night, it is in your face, fun and raw!
Floetics review:
The best performances of the first half of tonight’s act are provided by three members of the Brighton based spoken-word collective Juke Box Poets. First to perform is female member Fleassy Malay, who delivers a Tolkien-inspired mythical re-imagining of a visit to the job centre, which she describes as ‘a labyrinth of friends and foes’ where ‘unearthed mysteries’ must be solved to ‘reach the golden treasure - Job Seeker’s Allowance’.
The poem that was received most resoundingly by tonight’s audience is Fleassy’s piece about her efforts to leave Brighton. This spoken-word piece begins listing reasons why she must flee the city immediately, painting landmarks as decaying creatures; ‘the west pier reaches longingly to the sky, the structure of her arthritic bones aching’. However, the piece becomes more of a love letter addressed to the city, with Fleassy concluding on her departure that she was ‘glad [she] spent more money for a return ticket’.
Fleassy is joined onstage by fellow Juke Box Poet Ashley French, and the pair deliver a spoken-word dialogue entitled ‘Flatland’. Full of wordplay and dense rhymes the piece concerns the writing of poetry and the procrastination that invariably accompanies it – a topic which the predominantly student audience can relate to. In the second half of the act a third Juke Box Poet, Daniel Rovira, takes to the stage, delivering an improvised piece inspired by the objects, names and opening line suggested by audience members.
Follow this link for a video of the Hammer and Tongue 2007 Brighton finals featuring our very own Daniel Rovira.
Hello,
Just a wee note to tell you about our music event at the Bookshop this weekend.
Playing are:
*Haunted Stereo www.myspace.com/hauntedstereomusic
alt-folk/ indie/ experimental six-piece line-up from Southampton.
*Jo Burke www.myspace.com/joburkemusic
English folk singing in a la Sandy Denny and Anne Briggs.
*Marcus Hessenberg, www.myspace.com/tulips
Brighton’s hidden avant pop gem
Saturday August 8th from 7:00 till 10:00 It’s FREE hope to see you there!
his is just a BIG BLOODY 'THANK YOU' to all the wonderful & big hearted folks who played at THE 'FAIRTRADE GALLERY'S APRIL ALTERNATIVE FESTIVAL' it was a great success & bless you all for making it so...we must do it again sometime xxx ftg
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yeah no probs send it n ill do it 2nite. rebeat and 1 from dan, think u should swap for the radio version tho bro, its pretty bad quality on here atm???
Hey guys, just wanted to wish you all the luck for the future, cant wait to see it live! I better get front row seats!! Btw, i got great recordings of all 3 of you live oon the radio show, you should put em up as your traks eh, i can burn em for ya or i can put em up from here if you trust me? it'd be easier? Anyway leme kno, peace.
Hey guys... cheers! yeah, it's better live to be honest - much more energetic than having to cope with my rubbish mic! could you recommend any decent poetry nights brighton way?
I heard an earlier form of rebeat, back in canada on the anarchist bookfair and it has only improved. and your voice has grown softer, with a deeper heart. it touches me lots, and gives me courage fleassy. I hope to see you guys live once, it is an amazing thing for young people to be so passionate, it makes me smile and hope. I just got back from SAfrica and it beat me up a bit, too much stress and too much sorrow, figuring things out now... Keep up the great work you guys!
