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.
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Visual Amazement:
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