The Velveteen Dolls

Live at the Forest Cafe

Saturday, May 22nd, 9pm BYOB

All the way from Love Street, the indie Italian band cooks with music

The Golden Hour: Literary Cabaret:

Join the gang from Edinburgh’s legendary Forest Cafe for a literary cabaret which has played to sold-out audiences in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is poetry and prose, original eclectic songs + plenty of surprises. It is physical and mental. It is a reading. It is a gig. It is a party.

Featuring:

Readers / Writers:
Ryan Van Winkle – poems & stories from the Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Ericka Duffy – Southern (Ontario) Gothic fiction & Poetry
Jason Morton – Shouts from the barroom floor.
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Jane Flett – winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award and seamstress of many fetching stories

Music / Song Writers:
Hailey Beavis – an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings
Jed Milroy – bouncin’ bluegrass from the banjo balladeer
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Taperecorder - weaves a shoegaze-crunk house hybrid as suited to cocooned winter days as to sweaty late-night adventuring.

(Special Guests are listed at each venue — see below!!)

 DATES & Venues:

20 May — The Rude Shipyard, 89 Abbeydale Rd, Sheffield
 
8 - 11pm,  £3 entry

With Special Guests:
Matt Clegg — beautiful poems, wonderfully restrained
Matt Black — serious, sharp, surreal, irritated and funny.
Pete David (of The Payroll Union) – The local hero shares some rustic country of his own making.

21 May  - The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row Bristol
8 - 11,  £3
With Special Guests:
Rachael Boast — poetry with the confident ease of a tall glass of iced-tea
David Briggs — idiosyncratic poems where clowns and teacups are lit at the edges with a gunsmoke-blue glow.
Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.

22 May — REDROASTER COFFEE HOUSE, 1d St James’s Street, Brighton BN2 1RE
8 - 11pm,  £3

With Special Guests:

Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.

The Half Sisters — Ukulele, flute and drums combined with three point harmonies create a lush and mesmerising chorus of catchy pop hooks and adorable honesty.

+ Possible special amazing comedic guest who we can’t quite pin down but will pop like a snake in can!

23 May London —— Shhhh, Secret Special BBQ gig… Contact us for the magic venue!!!
FREE  

4pm – midnight

With Special Guests

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian

Paper Cinema & many surprise friends!!!

24 May - London - Green Note -106 Parkway, Camden, London

7 - 11pm, £5
With Special Guests:
Mario Petrucci — Imaginative, sophisticated and effortlessly masterful poet.
Kirsten Irving — The editor of FuseLit brings poems of effortless and funky finery.

Sam Taradash — stories from the hard shoulder.

Jonny Berliner – joyus songs about crustaceans, exhaustion, and glucose.

Itinerant Poetry Librarian

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Visual Amazement:

Paper Cinema -

A cast of hand-drawn marionettes are magically brought to life. This is what happens at the accidental meeting of inkblots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-poise lamps, the occasional table, video technology, a laptop and a banana box.

25 May — Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne

7.30 - 11pm,  £3

With Special Guests:

Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle — local heroes bring their brand of bluesy country/folk hillbilly mix of utter eccentricity