Richard has done literally hundreds of gigs around London and the UK including The Hackney Empire, Express Excess, Shortfuse, Utter!, Laughing Horse comedy, Ik:Toms, Hammer & Tongue, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Clerkenwell Literary Festival, performing alongside and programming the likes of John Hegley, Mark Watson, Iain Sinclair, Stewart Home, David J, Kat Francois and Dan Antopolski.
Richard is co-host of the regular Antifolk fesivals at the 12 Bar club, Denmark Street, London - see http://www.antifolk.co.uk/ for details
Richard unveils new material on the first Monday of the month at Spoonful of Poison at the Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, Free (Tube: Aldgate East)
Richard’s poems, stories and articles have appeared in The Fix, Rising, Brittle Star and Trespass magazines, The Delinquent issues 1, 2 and 3, art magazine in a bag Irk, Utter! Writing group’s anthology ‘Stop me & Buy One’, 2005, on the-errorist.com, metaroar.com, Tales of the Decongested’s website decongested.com and in ‘Poems for a Better Future’, 2004. His first book, ‘Germline’ is forthcoming in late 2008.
Influences
Contemporary poetry: Jeremy Quinn, Hugo Williams, Roddy Lumsden, Matthew Sweeney, Anthony Howell, Tims Wells and Turnbull. Others I like but find difficult to nick all their ideas so am not that 'influenced' by them. That Shakespeare's not bad too, you know. You should check him out.
Literature: Stewart Home, Edward Lear, Jorgie Borges, Umberto Eco, William Burroughs, Angela Carter, Will Self, Graham Greene, Iain Sinclair.
Comedy: Fat Fat Pope, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Cowards, Noble & Silver, Spinal Tap, Simon Munnery, Sean Lock, Larry David, League of Gentlemen, Henry Rollins, Tim Vine
Music: Tech Itch, Current Value, The Panacea, Limewax, Freak, Position Chrome, Barcode, Renegade Hardware, DSCI4, G2. John Peel, The General and DJ E on Rude FM are my heroes. Also Digital Hardcore, Breakcore, Warp, Rephlex, Planet Mu, Wrong, but not to mix. Who doesn't like all that? Oh, and gabba. I like incredibly dated mindless nosebleed Dutch gabba.
Sounds Like
Wrestler Stephen Regal, apparently.... I've just been listening to my voice and I'm worried it does sound a bit self-conciously RP.
Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet, comic, raconteur, writer and host-for-hire living in London whose material relies on pseudo-science, sophistry, urban myth, random cruelty, equal-opportunities misanthropy and sometimes the odd relentless barrage of filth. Richard is Organiser of the Arts-Council funded and regularly Time Out recommended 'Utter!', with its raucous mix of comedy, poetry, storytelling, music and Ajar mic contest. 'Utter!' erupts on the last Wednesday of the month at the historic Salisbury Pub on Green Lanes, N4 1JX in between Manor House and Turnpike Lane tube stations, London.
Richard also performs as his alter-egos, 55-year-old alcoholic anarchist Punk Poet 'RITCHIE SCURVEY', foul-mouthed Pam Ayres tribute act 'PAM SWEARS' and was once a member of FAT FAT POPE, an avant-garde comedy group described by the Observer as 'god's gift to comedy' and as 'wanky, self-important brats' by The Independent.
Richard regularly runs writing workshops for the 'Utter!' writing group, which takes place most Saturdays from 11am-1pm in Wood Green library's Community Room. He is happy to run these in any setting and with any kind of group.
For more info, bookings or to get a slot at Utter!s ajar mic contest, phone Richard on 07912*539*098 or email him on richardtyroneBRITISHNAVYjones@gmail.com (But without the BRITISHNAVY, which was put there to stop pirates from stealing valuables such as his email address.)
"manic and offbeat poems that contain more layers than are immediately apparent, and poems that are just plain manic and offbeat. Can take the piss out of himself as well as he can take it out of everything else, including you. Ha!" - Niall O' Sullivan, host of The Cellar and Poetry Unplugged at the Poetry Cafe, London
"five star performance" - Ham & High on Ritchie Scurvey
"Richard Tyrone Jones bridges the page-stage divide - and dumps on both" – Tim Wells
"Excellent ginger jokes...if such a thing can be said to exist" - Plan B magazine
"Top concept wonderfully carried out" - Paul Lyalls, host of Express Excess
"Wicked, fucking mental" - Phil Cornwell on Ritchie Scurvey. He might have been on the bugle though
A big thank you for throwing tonight's Utter! A truly memorable night. Mr Socky is a total winner. As much as some headteachers are up for fine spoken word artisans, I'm still not sure if they would be as open-minded to let Mr Socky echo within the school corridors ;)
All I can say is that the development of the English essay generally drove Western humanity over the brink of reason. Actually, I imagine she more simply thought she was being upright and moral, following an exemplary life a la Plutarch's model. Do you have a theory?
No problem, sir, I know how these things are. I've left more things early than I can count in recent months. I'm just astonished that so many people stuck around in the heat and stuffiness, to be honest! It normally drives people out of the Poetry Cafe.
Great photo! Planet of the Apes meets Ronald MacDonald after an eco warriors' attack??? Hope to see you this autumn at some more of your Utterly wonderful events. NX
