REMINDER: Big Word TONIGHT in Edinburgh, with host Jenny Lindsay

THE BIG WORD, Edinburgh

Thursday 22nd March @ THE JAZZ BAR, CHAMBER ST, EDINBURGH.
Doors 9pm, show 9.30 - 11.30pm.

Featuring: World Slam Champion ELVIS MCGONAGALL, locals Fiona Lindsay & BRAM GIEBEN, Bristolian novelist, poet and academic LUCY ENGLISH.

PLUS: the inimitable DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL.
£4/3 concs.
Hosted by Jenny Lindsay.

PLEASE NOTE:
NEW VENUE & (one-off) NEW OPENING TIME.

* THE BIG WORD has a new home in The Jazz Bar on Chambers Street. After the recent acquisition of a DRUM & BASS DJ upstairs on Thursday evenings at the temporary venue of The City Cafe, Big Word was approached to become part of the Jazz Bar's permanent, regular programme.

* Our premiere night at The Jazz Bar is a heady mix of spoken word, rap, lyricism, wit and music. Carrying on in our successful new format - launched last October - The Big Word continues to be the only spoken word night in town where you will hear not only the best of the local scene, but the best of the national and international scenes too.

* ELVIS MCGONAGALL - headliner for the night - is a man with numerous awards - perhaps too numerous to mention. But here are a couple: he is not only the WORLD SLAM CHAMPION, but he was also the runner-up in THE FOUR CONTINENTS SLAM in December. Despite this, he maintains the dry, acerbic and self-deprecating wit that only Scots can master with true aplomb.

*LUCY ENGLISH - is the only academic who has been brave enough to teach spoken word and performance poetry as a discipline at a British University (Bath Spa). In addition, she is a raucous & raunchy performer, having read worldwide, and is the author of three novels published by Random House.

* FIONA LINDSAY - a local poet, who draws on her rich life-experience without descending to the popular Misery-Lit style of recent years, which might as well be sponsored by Prozac... Instead, hear the truth made accessible, colourful and funny.

*BRAM GIEBEN - Spinning verbal barbed wire: Rap with meaning. Rare.

* DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL - Infamous local scoundrel, intensely woeful yet hilarious delivery, and a plinky-piano that delights. A must-see. That's a cliche. Sorry.



Hosted by JENNY LINDSAY: poet, songwriter, pretends-to-be-writing-a-novel, international ambassador, MEP, octogenarian, liar, and performance poetry promoter.