Sometimes it's just me. Spoken word stories some short some longer.
Musical stuff happens with people I rate.
More music stuff coming soon.
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Influences
Glensford Gardener, Teodosia Gardener, Geoff Hogan, Diego Armando Maradona, Dennis Bergkamp, Kaneto Shindo, Jim Sheridan, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, Paul Schrader, Zvladimir Boban, Dejan Savecevic, Marcel Desailly (but only in midfield), Edgar Davids (at Milan), Roberto Baggio, Louis Sachar (not Louis Sahar), Charles Bukowski, J.D Salinger, Steven Seagal, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Pryor, Rakim, Lenny, Haruki Murakami, Oliver Jeffers, KRS, Like Water For Chocolate, Jazzanova, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Ruby Tuesday, Enjoy the Silence, Terry Callier, Jehst, Michel Gondry, Kim Trusty, Steven Zaillian, my West Indian childhood, my irish side, white rum, my girl, Karl Marx, The Marx Brothers, The Incredible Hulk, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Eddie Murphy, Jet Li, George Axelrod, Way of the Dragon, Night time, the bath, money, a sense of legacy, Fried Plantain, people I know.
Click 'Buy Now' to download my spoken word EP 'Just Talkin'
Click 'Buy Now' to download the 'Keep It Simple' EP I did with Session, includes original version of Jessica 'Fade to Black', 'Candlelight' and 'Seven Thirty'
In 1979 a boy was born with an overly large cranium.
Doctors at the time considered a diagnosis of ‘Water on the Brain’ but the young boy seemed to respond well to stimuli and was sent home with his mother. Over the following 7 years the boy developed a style of living which incorporated certain allowances for his oversized head, these included; standing at the back in group photographs, not standing in the line of the sun whilst around sunbathers and avoiding running downhill. All seemed normal until in the summer of 1986 the young boy witnessed two events that changed his life forever.
The first was the artistic expression of Diego Armando Maradona. The second was an hour long documentary about the Arctic Circle narrated by David Attenborough. In the space of one week the young boy became obsessed with two things, Polar bears and the majesty of a perfectly executed pitch-long dribble.
Around about the same time the boy’s mother began to notice an interesting phenomenon. Her son’s specially constructed balaclava seemed to be less tight and he seemed to leave his horizontal TV-watching position with greater ease on Saturday afternoons after A-Team.
She took her son to her Doctor who told her that a shrinking of the cranium was a near impossibility and that there must be some other explanation for her perceptions, wishful thinking perhaps. Unconvinced, she took him to a reclusive Wizard who operated in the area under the guise of a ‘Holistic medicine Practitioner’. The Wizard examined the boy closely over a period of three days, setting the boy numerous tasks and puzzles.
After the three days the Wizard showed the mother his composed dossier on her son. It stated that the young boy possessed immense physical skill, observation and rhythm, that seemed to be the result of the slow release of an unknown ‘essence’ from his brain. It seemed that the boy was able to capture the heart of a story and, using balance, rhythm and skilful delivery, somehow relay that story back in a mazy run that defied restraint.
The Wizard told the mother that this was the reason for the reduction in her son’s head size. When the mother expressed concern for the long term effects of the condition, the Wizard reassured her that if what he believed was true, then upon reaching puberty her son would develop a means of sustaining this essence, with one proviso, he must be given some means of artistic release. The mother agreed and went out and bought her son his first pencil and notepad. She thanked the Wizard for his help and before she left asked him about her son’s fascination with Polar Bears. The Wizard replied,
'All gifted souls must choose their own ideal physical form.
Your son has chosen wisely’.
I have ideas and write them down and move around while I say them.
From the 2nd city of Birmingham.
I like peach cobbler and Maradona
I don't like costume drama or saltfish.
Thanks for passing through and listening.
Safe
p-bear you're ill. lapping up that bornbear mix like the proverbial thirsty cat. check my silly noises if you're able to spare a moment. pip, tempest and yourself are the triumvirate of britspeak
Thank you for a wicked time in your house x twas a great show and what you did with tempest was great! hopefully see you at the onetaste festival!!!!!! oh and congratulations on the new baba!!!!!!! stay safe !
Aright, Bear! How did bears house go then? You'll have to tell me all about it. I'm still gutted i missed it, but there's always a next time. Hope you're doing well! xxx.
Woah, Bears House looks dope! It's the day after the WahWah gig at Scala so will have to stick around for that. Also, has channel 5 been running Seagal movies every week for the last 3 years or what?! I'm kinda getting into it...
I find myself leaving messages on your board mate, I see the goodness that is Bears House and I'm thinking to myself, damn if only I can hop across the sea quickly and be back in time for work!
Can you believe it has been a year since you were out here... (Heavy as you'd say). The meals are still big and the ice tea is still served in huge glasses!
Getting ready to lay another verse down...
S. PiP is ridiculous, too, been vibin' for a minute to his ways.
Saw the poster for your halloween night, i think on a scale of one to ten of excitement, i was at a billion. Afraid to hear it's in london though! Living in Glasgow and being a student apparently means that I am very poor and cant afford to travel and find somewhere to stay the night of the gig. I couldn't be any more gutted if I tried.
But! I want to hear about the night and how brilliant it will be
I absolutely love your work. It got me quite inspired and I've ended up agreeing to do my first spoken word set at Upbeat Open Mic in Cambridge. Do big thanks for doing something that made me feel it's worth while.
I can't wait for the haloween show! Hope you're well! Kirsty x x
