Monday, April 6th, 2009, 7.30pm
Green Note Cafe,
106 Parkway,
Camden,
London
Hammer and Tongue Open Poetry Slam, with Simon Munnery aka. Alan
Parker, Urban Warrior and special guests.
Hammer and Tongue's April gig features one of the UK's very best
performers and comedians, the excellent Simon Munnery. Part of the
original Comedy Zone line-up at Edinburgh, with Stewart Lee, Mark
Lamarr and Chris and George, Munnery
carved an anarchistic vein into the minds of radio-listeners around
the country in his incarnation as Alan Parker, Urban Warrior. A Sony
Gold Award winner for radio comedy, Munnery is a marvel, come and
enjoy. Special guest TBC.
We are also gearing up for the Hammer and Tongue London slam final in
May which will elevate the winner to international fame and stardom.
To win a place in the final, which will be happening this spring, you
need to SLAM! So dust off any rhymes which have been gathering moss at
the bottom of your notebooks, scrawl new ditties and come compete!
Hammer and Tongue's London slam champion and runners up will slam in
the UK-wide championships later this year.
Sign up on the door from 7.30pm to slam- first 8 get to slam. Slammers
get in for free. Turn up before 8 for free cake.
Call Michelle on 07809236133 for more details
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Monday, May 05, 2008
The Oxford Hammer and Tongue Slam Final
A final plug for this event which (I have on good authority) will probably be at the Vaults of St Mary the Virgin, Radcliffe Square, Oxford.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
8pm -11pm £5/£4
After a season of great events that has seen the first ever transatlantic live internet linked poetry slam and some of the worlds best performance poets at venues large and small throughout the city, we reach the climax of our poetry slam season: The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final.
By virtue of qualifying through open slams six budding stars have been invited to compete. They are Bohdan Piesecki, Pete the Temp, Jennie B, George Roberts, Julia Kiel and Tina Sederholm.
Vote for a wild card poet
In addition to this we are inviting you to nominate two wild card entrants. If there has been someone competing in a slam that you thought deserved to win who you want to see again email back with a name or any detail of their appearance/performance should your drunken memory have failed you once again (you muppet) and we will collate the results and give two more people the opportunity to take the big prize.
Special Guest
The guest artists for the final is Jem Rolls.Jem is one of the most accomplished performance poets in the world today. He has received more than 25 Five-star reviews and been heralded as a "Genius" (Montreal Gazette) in Canada where he now resides and plies his trade. He was the founder of Big Word in London and in Edinburgh and is responsible for taking performance poetry to The Edinburgh Fringe where he is known as "the godfather of Scottish performance poetry" (Scotland on Sunday).
Your DJ will be DJ Mystic your hosts the beautiful Sophia Blackwell and the even beautifuler Steve Larkin!
See you there.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
8pm -11pm £5/£4
After a season of great events that has seen the first ever transatlantic live internet linked poetry slam and some of the worlds best performance poets at venues large and small throughout the city, we reach the climax of our poetry slam season: The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final.
By virtue of qualifying through open slams six budding stars have been invited to compete. They are Bohdan Piesecki, Pete the Temp, Jennie B, George Roberts, Julia Kiel and Tina Sederholm.
Vote for a wild card poet
In addition to this we are inviting you to nominate two wild card entrants. If there has been someone competing in a slam that you thought deserved to win who you want to see again email back with a name or any detail of their appearance/performance should your drunken memory have failed you once again (you muppet) and we will collate the results and give two more people the opportunity to take the big prize.
Special Guest
The guest artists for the final is Jem Rolls.Jem is one of the most accomplished performance poets in the world today. He has received more than 25 Five-star reviews and been heralded as a "Genius" (Montreal Gazette) in Canada where he now resides and plies his trade. He was the founder of Big Word in London and in Edinburgh and is responsible for taking performance poetry to The Edinburgh Fringe where he is known as "the godfather of Scottish performance poetry" (Scotland on Sunday).
Your DJ will be DJ Mystic your hosts the beautiful Sophia Blackwell and the even beautifuler Steve Larkin!
See you there.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
8pm -11pm £5/£4
(Venue not given. Contact: Hammer and Tongue, 16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG
01865 200550 web: www.hammerandtongue.co.uk mail to: events@hammerandtongue.co.uk)
After a season of great events that has seen the first ever transatlantic live internet linked poetry slam and some of the worlds best performance poets at venues large and small throughout the city, we reach the climax of our poetry slam season: The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final.
By virtue of qualifying through open slams six budding stars have been invited to compete. They are Bohdan Piesecki, Pete the Temp, Jennie B, George Roberts, Julia Kiel and Tina Sederholm.
Vote for a wild card poet
In addition to this we are inviting you to nominate two wild card entrants. If there has been someone competing in a slam that you thought deserved to win who you want to see again email back with a name or any detail of their appearance/performance should your drunken memory have failed you once again (you muppet) and we will collate the results and give two more people the opportunity to take the big prize.
Special Guest
The guest artists for the final is Jem Rolls.
Jem is one of the most accomplished performance poets in the world today. He has received more than 25 Five-star reviews and been heralded as a "Genius" (Montreal Gazette) in Canada where he now resides and plies his trade. He was the founder of Big Word in London and in Edinburgh and is responsible for taking performance poetry to The Edinburgh Fringe where he is known as "the godfather of Scottish performance poetry" (Scotland on Sunday).
Your DJ will be DJ Mystic your hosts the beautiful Sophia Blackwell and the even beautifuller Steve Larkin!
See you there.
8pm -11pm £5/£4
(Venue not given. Contact: Hammer and Tongue, 16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG
01865 200550 web: www.hammerandtongue.co.uk mail to: events@hammerandtongue.co.uk)
After a season of great events that has seen the first ever transatlantic live internet linked poetry slam and some of the worlds best performance poets at venues large and small throughout the city, we reach the climax of our poetry slam season: The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final.
By virtue of qualifying through open slams six budding stars have been invited to compete. They are Bohdan Piesecki, Pete the Temp, Jennie B, George Roberts, Julia Kiel and Tina Sederholm.
Vote for a wild card poet
In addition to this we are inviting you to nominate two wild card entrants. If there has been someone competing in a slam that you thought deserved to win who you want to see again email back with a name or any detail of their appearance/performance should your drunken memory have failed you once again (you muppet) and we will collate the results and give two more people the opportunity to take the big prize.
Special Guest
The guest artists for the final is Jem Rolls.
Jem is one of the most accomplished performance poets in the world today. He has received more than 25 Five-star reviews and been heralded as a "Genius" (Montreal Gazette) in Canada where he now resides and plies his trade. He was the founder of Big Word in London and in Edinburgh and is responsible for taking performance poetry to The Edinburgh Fringe where he is known as "the godfather of Scottish performance poetry" (Scotland on Sunday).
Your DJ will be DJ Mystic your hosts the beautiful Sophia Blackwell and the even beautifuller Steve Larkin!
See you there.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Oxford Slam in assoc. with Hammer & Tongue, and other groovy stuff: this May 2008
The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final
May the 6th8 -11pm
£5/£4
[Venue not given: The Vaults, Radcliffe Square, Oxford? Ed.]
After a season of great events that has seen the first ever transatlantic live internet linked poetry slam and some of the worlds best performance poets at venues large and small throughout the city, we reach the climax of our poetry slam season: The Oxford Hammer & Tongue Slam Final.
By virtue of qualifying through open slams six budding stars have been invited to compete. They are Bohdan Piesecki, Pete the Temp, Jennie B, George Roberts, Julia Kiel and Tina Sederholm.
Vote for a wild card poet
In addition to this we are inviting you to nominate two wild card entrants. If there has been someone competing in a slam that you thought deserved to win who you want to see again email back with a name or any detail of their appearance/performance should your drunken memory have failed you once again (you muppet) and we will collate the results and give two more people the opportunity to take the big prize.
Special Guest
The guest artists for the final is Jem Rolls.
Jem is one of the most accomplished performance poets in the world today. He has received more than 25 Five-star reviews and been heralded as a "Genius" (Montreal Gazette) in Canada where he now resides and plies his trade. He was the founder of Big Word in London and in Edinburgh and is responsible for taking performance poetry to The Edinburgh Fringe where he is known as "the godfather of Scottish performance poetry" (Scotland on Sunday).
Your DJ will be DJ Mystic your hosts the beautiful Sophia Blackwell and the even beautifuller Steve Larkin!
See you there.
*
ALSO OCM event
Slounge # 3
May the 8th
The Vaults, Radcliffe Square, Oxford
8-11pm
£12 with dinner £4 without
Music / Art / Organic Food
Music from Inchtime weaving shades of jazz, folk and world music into electronica which is "as subtle and beautiful as it is difficult to resist" (DJ Magazine)
Music and Poetry from award winning poet Steve Larkin "revolutionary, elocutionary genius ***** " See Magazine
7pm - Dinner/DJ
8pm onwards - Performances
OCM in collaboratin with Clare Salter / Victoria Bosher / OVADA / Hammer & Tongue
Boomshanka
The Hammer & Tongue Team
16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG 01865 200550
Monday, March 31, 2008
Re:versing the Damage: Oxford, in association with Hammer & Tongue, this Wednesday
CLIMATE XCHANGE
Launch of Re:versing The Damage – Notes From The Climate Journey
Wednesday 2nd April, 8.00 pm
Festival Room 1, Christ Church
£7.50
Join us for a creative journey through climate change. This event will showcase Oxfordshire writers responding to the highs and lows of the climate journey, making you laugh, possibly even cry, but engage in a refreshing and new way with climate change and our responses to it.
Brought to you by Oxfordshire ClimateXchange and Hammer and Tongue
www.climateX.org
www.hammerandtongue.co/uk
Launch of Re:versing The Damage – Notes From The Climate Journey
Wednesday 2nd April, 8.00 pm
Festival Room 1, Christ Church
£7.50
Join us for a creative journey through climate change. This event will showcase Oxfordshire writers responding to the highs and lows of the climate journey, making you laugh, possibly even cry, but engage in a refreshing and new way with climate change and our responses to it.
Brought to you by Oxfordshire ClimateXchange and Hammer and Tongue
www.climateX.org
www.hammerandtongue.co/uk
Hammer & Tongue in London: Wednesday 2nd April
Hammer & Tongue London
Open Poetry Slam + Special guests John Berkavich - UK Slam Champion +
Chloe Poems - Gay Socialist Transvestite Poet
Wed 2nd April 7.30-11pm
Bethnal Green Working Mens’ Club, Pollards Row, E2
Tickets: £6/5 Cons
Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
07809 236133
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
www.workersplaytime.co.uk
“The best live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue slam” Sunday Times
Oxford’s finest home-grown spoken word night is back with cake, chaos and its very own brand of raucous, energetic and thought-provoking performance poetry. This month we have award winning rhymes from UK Slam Champion John Berkavich, Gay Socialist Transvestite Poet Chloe Poems as well as the furious Angry Sam, who is fresh back from his international debut in Denmark earlier this month.
We will of course also have the open slam so anyone who wants to test out their rhymes on a willing and pliable audience, rock up at 7.30, the first 8 performers to sign up will slam so pass the word round and come and give it a go. We had some really wicked poets turn up and slam last month and are expecting a bevy of bright new performers from London and beyond, so get involved!
For more info contact Michelle on 07809 236133 or at madsen.michelle@gmail.com.
Open Poetry Slam + Special guests John Berkavich - UK Slam Champion +
Chloe Poems - Gay Socialist Transvestite Poet
Wed 2nd April 7.30-11pm
Bethnal Green Working Mens’ Club, Pollards Row, E2
Tickets: £6/5 Cons
Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
07809 236133
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
www.workersplaytime.co.uk
“The best live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue slam” Sunday Times
Oxford’s finest home-grown spoken word night is back with cake, chaos and its very own brand of raucous, energetic and thought-provoking performance poetry. This month we have award winning rhymes from UK Slam Champion John Berkavich, Gay Socialist Transvestite Poet Chloe Poems as well as the furious Angry Sam, who is fresh back from his international debut in Denmark earlier this month.
We will of course also have the open slam so anyone who wants to test out their rhymes on a willing and pliable audience, rock up at 7.30, the first 8 performers to sign up will slam so pass the word round and come and give it a go. We had some really wicked poets turn up and slam last month and are expecting a bevy of bright new performers from London and beyond, so get involved!
For more info contact Michelle on 07809 236133 or at madsen.michelle@gmail.com.
Friday, November 09, 2007
A Message from Hammer & Tongue
Hello pop pickers,
Thank you to the hundreds of people who turned out for The John Hegley / Inflatable Buddha gig on Friday - I hope you enjoyed it as much as the Hammer & Tongue team did!
This Sunday sees an exciting event in the form of Slounge. The fine purveys of original live music extravaganzas Oxford Contemporary Music have teamed up with Hammer & Tongue to produce a multi-media event that promises to float the boat of even the most jaded gig goer. Music / art / poetry and organic food will be served up at everybodies favorite fair trade cafe The Vaults and Gardens (Radcliffe Square opposite the Radcliffe Camera).
On the bill is the much touted winsome folk-punk harpist Serafina Steer
"blurring cartoonish fantasy with kitchen-sink reality" (BBC) and if that's not enough a rare solo poetry performance from Inflatable Buddha frontman Steve Larkin "funny and biting, like a pump-action powerhouse on-stage" Edmonton Journal, Canada. There will also be short films from Oxford Film and Video Makers and a DJ.
This is the shape of things to come. The future is a multi-media. The future is slounge! Be there. Come for dinner for £12 from 7pm or come without dinner for £4 from 8pm.
That's all for now folks.
Boomshanka
The Hammer & Tongue Team
Thank you to the hundreds of people who turned out for The John Hegley / Inflatable Buddha gig on Friday - I hope you enjoyed it as much as the Hammer & Tongue team did!
This Sunday sees an exciting event in the form of Slounge. The fine purveys of original live music extravaganzas Oxford Contemporary Music have teamed up with Hammer & Tongue to produce a multi-media event that promises to float the boat of even the most jaded gig goer. Music / art / poetry and organic food will be served up at everybodies favorite fair trade cafe The Vaults and Gardens (Radcliffe Square opposite the Radcliffe Camera).
On the bill is the much touted winsome folk-punk harpist Serafina Steer
"blurring cartoonish fantasy with kitchen-sink reality" (BBC) and if that's not enough a rare solo poetry performance from Inflatable Buddha frontman Steve Larkin "funny and biting, like a pump-action powerhouse on-stage" Edmonton Journal, Canada. There will also be short films from Oxford Film and Video Makers and a DJ.
This is the shape of things to come. The future is a multi-media. The future is slounge! Be there. Come for dinner for £12 from 7pm or come without dinner for £4 from 8pm.
That's all for now folks.
Boomshanka
The Hammer & Tongue Team
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Amnesty meets Hammer & Tongue for a Slam Extravaganza!
The first event in an exciting new season that sees the likes of comic genius John Hegley and two-time world slam champion Buddy Wakefield grace Oxford stages takes place this Monday. Be there, or don't.
MON 15th OCTOBER
Amnesty International and Hammer & Tongue present:
Protect The Human Poetry Slam
@ The Port Mahon, St Clements, Oxford
8-11 pm (get there at 7.30 to sign up for the Slam) £6/4 conc.
The Hammer & Tongue team up with Amnesty to deliver some powerful spoken word in the form of an open-mic poetry slam where ten contenders battle it out for the title of Slam Champion and a chance to go through to the end-of-year Hammer & Tongue Final. Featuring special guests Peter Wyton and Adam Horovitz. For further information about the Slam, please contact sophiablackwell@gmail.com
Other events coming up:
Fri 26th Oct Black History Month Special with Queen Sheba, Frank Isahak and a host of local talent @ East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, Oxford 8-11pm £5/£4
Fri Nov 2nd John Hegley and The Popticians with Inflatable Buddha at The Oxford Academy £10/£8 tickets 0844 477 2000 www.oxford-academy.co.uk
Sun 11th Nov Oxford Contemporary Music + Hammer & Tongue present "Slounge" with folk punk harpist Serafina Steer and poetry from Steve Larkin @ The Vaults, Radcliffe Sqaure, Oxford £4 or £12 with dinner tickets 01865 305305
Full details of all events in the autumn/winter programmes can be found at www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
* If you can't wait for the 2nd of November to see Inflatable Buddha then worry not they will be playing with The 3 Daft Monkeys (hear them at www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk) this Sunday at The Oxford Academy, for tickets call Inflatable Buddha directly on 01865 200 550 or visit the Academy Box Office.
Boomshanka
The Hammer & Tongue Team
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk "thebest live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue slams" (The Sunday Times)
Hammer & Tongue, 16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG, 01865 200 550 www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
"The best live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue Slams"
(The Sunday Times)
MON 15th OCTOBER
Amnesty International and Hammer & Tongue present:
Protect The Human Poetry Slam
@ The Port Mahon, St Clements, Oxford
8-11 pm (get there at 7.30 to sign up for the Slam) £6/4 conc.
The Hammer & Tongue team up with Amnesty to deliver some powerful spoken word in the form of an open-mic poetry slam where ten contenders battle it out for the title of Slam Champion and a chance to go through to the end-of-year Hammer & Tongue Final. Featuring special guests Peter Wyton and Adam Horovitz. For further information about the Slam, please contact sophiablackwell@gmail.com
Other events coming up:
Fri 26th Oct Black History Month Special with Queen Sheba, Frank Isahak and a host of local talent @ East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, Oxford 8-11pm £5/£4
Fri Nov 2nd John Hegley and The Popticians with Inflatable Buddha at The Oxford Academy £10/£8 tickets 0844 477 2000 www.oxford-academy.co.uk
Sun 11th Nov Oxford Contemporary Music + Hammer & Tongue present "Slounge" with folk punk harpist Serafina Steer and poetry from Steve Larkin @ The Vaults, Radcliffe Sqaure, Oxford £4 or £12 with dinner tickets 01865 305305
Full details of all events in the autumn/winter programmes can be found at www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
* If you can't wait for the 2nd of November to see Inflatable Buddha then worry not they will be playing with The 3 Daft Monkeys (hear them at www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk) this Sunday at The Oxford Academy, for tickets call Inflatable Buddha directly on 01865 200 550 or visit the Academy Box Office.
Boomshanka
The Hammer & Tongue Team
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk "thebest live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue slams" (The Sunday Times)
Hammer & Tongue, 16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG, 01865 200 550 www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
"The best live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue Slams"
(The Sunday Times)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Oxfam Benefit Slam in Oxford: Tuesday October 2nd
Hammer & Tongue Oxfam Benefit Slam
The Vaults and Gardens Cafe, Radcliffe Square, OxfordDate- Tuesday, Oct 2nd
Times: 8-11, sign-up for the Slam 7.30
Costs: £8/£5 concessions. Donations also welcome.
How long do slammers have on the mic?- Three minutes, thirty seconds grace period.
Special Guests- Steve Larkin and Sian Robins- Grace.
What else is available?- Music, beer.
Can I book a place in the slam?- Only if you're coming from outside Oxford- locals just need to be there early!
Get on the H&T mailing list at www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
Monday, August 27, 2007
Tales from a Paralalia Universe, performed in Oxford: Tuesday September 4th
Tales from a Paralalia Universe
Part road movie, part adventure, mostly poetry, written and performed by David C Johnson and Peter Hunter, with special guest Adriel Luis from the USA.Radio 4's favourite poets/playwrights treat us to film and performance that documents their first poetry tour of the USA.
When?
Tuesday September 4th 2007
From 6.30pm (see below)
Where's the Venue?
The Vaults and Garden Cafe
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
Radcliffe Square
Oxford
Tickets (with dinner) £12
Food served from 6.30 p.m.
To reserve tickets, please email events@hammerandtongue.co.uk or call 01865 200 550
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret in Oxford: TONIGHT Tuesday 7th August
HAMMER AND TONGUE PRESENTS:
If music (and poetry) be the food of love, come and taste ourLATE SUMMER JAM
Tuesday 7th of August, 6.30-10.30 p.m
Top notch poetry and music and top nosh at the Vaults featuring:
Lucy English
Hippy chick, love mother, goddess, gardener- and poet!
With musical support from three of Oxford's finest:
Barnabas
A truly unique musician- don't miss the chance to see him live!
Jean Bramley
Spectacular jazz and blues belter all the way from South Africa
Ed Pope
Twinkling tangential tirades from the Pope of Oxford
Hosted by Sophia Blackwell
The Vaults and Garden Cafe
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
Radcliffe Square
Tickets (with dinner) £12
Food served from 6.30 p.m.
To reserve tickets, please email Sophiablackwell@gmail.com or call 01865 200 550
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret in Oxford: TONIGHT Tuesday 3rd July
Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret
@ The Vaults and Garden, OxfordTuesday 3rd of July 2007
6:30 - 10:30
"Top performance and top nosh in a venue that's posh with
The Bold 'n' Spiky Poetry Show
a sneak preview of Rob Gee and Steve Larkin's new show before it returns to Canada where it received critical acclaim last year: plus music from Spiderwoods, bewitching Oxford folk goths
+
Chantelle Pike
Playmusic Magazine Unsigned Acoustic Act Award Winner 2007
+ madness from The Mighty Zork
Wild poetic compositions and classical kazoo montages!
Hosted by Sophia Blackwell
First class literature - live
+
Organic and Fair Trade food
tickets £12/£10 conc. to reserve call 01865 200 550 or email events@hammerandtongue.co.uk food served from 6:30, show 8 - 10:30
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret: Tuesday 3rd July
Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabaret
@ The Vaults and Garden, Oxford (I think this may be a pub on Cornmarket Street? best google first if you don't know the address)Tuesday 3rd of July 2007
6:30 - 10:30
"Top performance and top nosh in a venue that's posh with
The Bold 'n' Spiky Poetry Show
a sneak preview of Rob Gee and Steve Larkin's new show before it returns to Canada where it received critical acclaim last year: plus music from Spiderwoods, bewitching Oxford folk goths
+
Chantelle Pike
Playmusic Magazine Unsigned Acoustic Act Award Winner 2007
+ madness from The Mighty Zork
Wild poetic compositions and classical kazoo montages!
Hosted by Sophia Blackwell
First class literature - live
+
Organic and Fair Trade food
tickets £12/£10 conc. to reserve call 01865 200 550 or email events@hammerandtongue.co.uk food served from 6:30, show 8 - 10:30
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