Pipe and Slippers is South London's premier cultural afternoon - a mix of music, stories, cabaret, dance, comedy and lounging about. We offer top quality performances without stifling reverence.
The inaugural Pipe and Slippers took place in November 2005. Now the event runs quarterly, always on a Sunday afternoon, in a Victorian style theatre pub called The Ivy House. It's the perfect place to relax - the pub boasts comfy sofas, roaring fires, tasty beers, gold lamé curtains, and nice cups of tea. Pipe and Slippers brings you all that, and fine entertainment too.
So, if you want to know more about forthcoming P&S's then sign up to our mailing list (on the homepage of our website). We'll keep you posted on the latest shenanigans. And we are always interested to hear from new performers too, so, writers and musicians, check the contributor's guidelines (also on our website) and get in touch if you are interested in performing.
Come, be merry, light up your pipes. You won't regret it.
How you doing? I wouldn't usually do this, but this seems to me a most worthwhile cause to publicize... The Arts Council is running an awesome scheme called Take It Away, wherein they will front folks the cash to buy musical instruments if they can't afford them, and then pay them back in small installments at face value, with no filthy interest on it or anything. They're basically doing it because they feel that everyone who wants to play an instrument should be able to get their hands on one... It is a most fabulous thing for those poor folks who can't afford banjos and such, so I'm trying to spread the word, if that's ok with you... Click the below link/banner thing, and further information will be yours! And of course feel free to pass it around if you can...
Pipe and Slippers is proud to give a big shout to Alice McLauglin, who performed at P&S last year.
On Weds and Thurs Alice plays a solo support show to the wonderful Terry Callier at the Jazz Cafe in Camden. She herself is a big fan as are we.
They promise to be two very special gigs, so do try to make it along to one!
Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th August The Jazz Cafe supporting Terry Callier 5 Parkway, Camden , London NW1 7PG Tickets £20 in advance available from www.jazzcafe.co.uk £25 on door. Alice onstage approx 8pm
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.
I posted the piece that Gethan and I read for you at wintertime, on my WritersCafe profile, and anyone and everyone who wants to can read it here. Thank you!
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
Not gonna clutter up (slow down) yr page with some stupid graphic, but will flag up our next gig for our friends in South London... hope you can join for our next show:
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FLIXATION Underground Cinema Club
- South London's Dirty Little Secret! -
SHORT FILM + PERFORMANCE + MUSIC
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Special treat: Stewart Home live!
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Wednesday 25th April
Miller of Mansfield
96 Snowsfields, London SE1 3SS
8pm £4/ £3 conc
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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
Forward Prize nominee and all-round poetry geezer Tim Wells is joined by the very funny Ventriloquist and the wondrous Aoife Mannix at this special spoken word event as part of this year's Elefest.
The venue is an empty retail unit in Steedman Street, five minutes walk from Elephant & Castle tube. Map here. There's no bar so bring your own booze. Doors are at 8pm and we go on til late. Two pounds entry.
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On another note, we're back at The Spitz on Wednesday 6 December with Catherine Anne Davies, Nigel Burch & The Fleapit Orchestra, Inua Ellams & Jamie Woon, Generation Txt. Tickets fiver here.
Emma Pollock (ex-Delgados), Chris T-T, Brendan Cleary, Sore Throat
5th October 2006 @ The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, Doors 7.30pm
Phrased & Confused brings together two of the UK’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Chris T-T and Emma Pollock, with poet Brendan Cleary and electro-spokenword duo Sore Throat for a unique and unmissable evening of words, music, lyrics and beats. The Luminaire, Kilburn was voted Time Out’s Venue of the Year and we concur! It’s a lovely space and perfect for Phrased & Confused, presented exclusively by penned in the margins, London’s top promoter of poetry and spoken word.
