LONDON: Velvet Tongue

Monday, September 2nd, 2013, £5/£3/free to participants, doors open 7pm; show starts 7.30pm

Bar Kick,

127 Shoreditch High Street,

E1 6JE,

London

Old Street/Liverpool Street tube stations; Shoreditch High Street overground.

http://velvettongueuk.blogspot.co.uk/

London's Erotic Literary Soiree is back this summer, in its pre-equinox edition with writers: ALEX HOPKINS and ANNIE PLAYER...and performers: LAZLO PEARLMAN and MR. MISTRESS. Plus the usual open mic slots.

Hosted by Erotic Award winning poet, Ernesto Sarezale.

Velvet Tongue is dedicated to erotic writing and performance, with poetry, fiction, spoken word, plays, stand-up, comic strips, cabaret, monologues,… 

THINGS PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT VELVET TONGUE:

http://velvettongueuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/reviewspreviews-and-reports.html

Velvet Tongue celebrates the hot, the sweet, the viscous, the carnal, the sexy, the racy, the provocative, the lustful, the voluptuous, the libidinous, the playful, the flirtatious, the teasing, the suggestive, the explicit, the cheeky, the bold, the brash, the brassy, the flashy, the risque, the pervy, the licentious, the queer, the depraved and the downright kinky.

http://www.sarezale.com

EDINBURGH: Rally and Broad

Friday, 15th March, 2013, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8pm-11pm, dancing until 1am, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

Featuring...

Writer and critic MIRIAM GAMBLE

The anti-folk lyricism of LACH

COLIN MCGUIRE: The inimitable (no: really) spoken word stylings of Glasgow-born bard.

BENOFFICIAL: Tiger suits, tunes, random acts of kindness. Poetry of its own kind…

Introducing: MIKO KOKO, a new spoken word act currently making folks sit up and listen on the Edinburgh poetry scene.

Plus: MORE MUSIC TBA!!

EDINBURGH: Rally & Broad

Saturday, February 16th, 2013, doors 7.30pm, cabaret from 8pm-11pm, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

Contact: rallyandbroad@gmail.com/

07989 508 436

A magnificent, new cabaret of spoken word, music & other lyrical delights! With added theatrics, dance and more. 

Presenting: The Grudge & The Glow

It’s the Valentine’s weekend, and whether you are facing it with a grudging harrumph or with a shiny glow over your bedazzled, loving puss, you should come experience it from a seat in our House. We’ll be there, hosting the lyrical delights of the talented, little squirrels below…

LUCY AYRTON  - Oxford based Fringe favourite returns with excerpts from her hit 2012 show ‘Lullabies To Make Your Children Cry.’

BOHDAN PIASECKI – Polish performance poet, currently based in Birmingham.

AUSTEN GEORGE  - Beautifully crafted lyrical delight from top Edinburgh singer-songwriter.

RHYS KIRKMAN – Up and coming Edinburgh singer-songwriter.

GRAEME HAWLEY – Finalist at the BBC Poetry Slam on the Fringe and one of Edinburgh’s best-loved spoken word artists.

And introducing LEO GLAISTER

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (BBC Slam finalist 2012/ Stewed Rhubarb Press/ Inky Fingers).

Plus! Much, much more to be announced on the night!

With dancin’ and DJs to follow, til the wee sma’ hours.

EDINBURGH: Rally & Broad

Friday, 19th October, 2012, Doors at 7.30pm. Cabaret from 8 – 11pm. Dancing shoes till 1am, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

A magnificent new cabaret of spoken word, music & other lyrical delight! With added theatrics, dance and more.

Contact: rallyandbroad@gmail.com/ 07989 508 436

THE GRAND LAUNCH!

 Presenting...

Award winning short story writer Kirstin Innes, curator of Words Per Minute & one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish writing.

Neu Reekie’s circus master of mayhem Michael Pedersen.

Punk-folk raw heroics from the mighty Billy Liar.

The charmingly wild cabaret vocals of Hazel Morrison.

...with the spellbinding Voicebox Physcial Theatre Company.

...and introducing the delicately kooky poetry of Camilla Chen.

Dancin’ shoes to follow, til the wee sma’ hours.

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (Stewed Rhubarb Press/Inky Fingers).

WHO?

Rally & Broad are Jenny Lindsay and Rachel McCrum who, between their carefully lacquered fingernails, have promoted more Edinburgh events than they can count. Jenny has been credited with creating a thriving spoken word scene in Edinburgh with The Big Word and Is This Poetry?, and is the 2012 BBC Edinburgh Festival Poetry Slam Champion. Rachel has worn through her boots over the last two years in Edinburgh, running nights and hosting national and international performers at events with The Forest Cafe, Inky Fingers and Blind Poetics. Together, they know how to put on a damn good show.

The Poetry Cafe

22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9BX
Tel: 020 7420 9887

The next seven days at the at the Poetry Cafe looks like this:

Poetry Unplugged
8th July, £4/3
7:30PM - 11:00PM

Open mic night hosted by Niall O'Sullivan. Sign on to read between 6-7pm.


Loose Muse
9th July, £5
7:30PM - 11:00PM/3

Hosted by Agnes Meadow.


Survivors Poetry
10th July, £2/1

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Poetry reading with resilience as main theme.


Journey Central Comedy Night
11th July, £6/5
8:00PM - 11:00PM

Comedy show hosted by Lainey Mclean. Different line ups every show. Event details


Literature Lounge Master Class
12th July

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Creative writing workshop with Anjan Saha

Entertainment Club
14th July

8:00PM - 11:00PM

close up magic and music with Matthew Duggan.

GLASGOW: Last Monday at Rio

Last Monday at Rio
The Rio Cafe, Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11
Monday May 26, 8pm - 10pm-ish
Admission Free

Spoken word cabaret night at Partick`s own wee retro formica museum.

Headline act is "The Chemical Poets"
A fiery trio of hip-strophe speed-ranters operating out of Embra.
Bram is fast, Tickle is furious and Harlequinade is ... well .. fizzy!
Experienced slam-burglars they will be confining their act this night to the subjects of love, sex, drugs, life and music.

The first hour of the evening is open mic. Let's be having youse! Robin Cairns is your compere.
Anyone minded to bring their guff and strut their stuff should contact robin.cairns at btconnect dot com

Totnes: Wondermentalist Cabaret

Fri 23 May 2008
7.30 pm for 8.00 pm, £7/£5
Royal Seven Stars
The Plains
Totnes TQ9 5DD
Email: matt.harvey@copperstrings.com
Website:http://www.wondermentalist.com

Wondermentalist Cabaret is hosted by Matt Harvey and features Jude Simpson, John Elliot, and the latest episode of Empath Man. Tickets £7 on the door, £5 in advance from Harlequin Bookshop, the Royal Seven Stars, Tel. 01803 862125 or by e-mailing Matt at matt.harvey@copperstrings.com.

Als includes The Dead Poets’ Slam - where living people read poems they love to a contemporary audience. This audience listens raptly and votes for a winner. In a sense everyone’s a winner - even so, there’s only one prize. If wishing to feature in the quirky Wondermentalist Cabaret, why not go to one to get a feel of the sort of thing they do, check out their website at; www.wondermentalist.com or listen to podcast recordings from the shows on Traydio at; http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/?cat=WondermentalistCamembert and you can also send samples of your work – mp3s are best.

Last Monday at RIO, Glasgow: Monday, March 31st

Last Monday at Rio
March 31, 8pm - 10pm. Admission Free.
The Rio Cafe, Hyndland Street, Glasgow, (Kelvinhall tube).

Where the speech is free and it`s cheap for your tea!

Spoken word cabaret evening starring Carl MacDougall.
Carl is a novelist, a storyteller and a telly broadcaster. You`ll have seen his series of 8 programmes on the Scots tongue for the BBC. You`ll know his books, Stone Over Water, The Lights Below, The Casanova Papers - of Elvis is Dead, his collection of stories. You`ll be wanting to see him live. Here`s your chance. Carl is a champion of the wonder tales of Scottish oral history. At Last Monday at Rio he`s going to treat us to a couple of his own.

First hour of the evening is open mic. Robin Cairns is your compere. Anyone wishing to read, speak or perform please contact robin.cairns@btconnect.com

See you at Rio

Poetry & Performance in Glasgow: Last Monday at Rio

Last Monday at Rio

The Rio Cafe, Hyndland Street, Glasgow
Monday Jan 28, 8pm start.
Admission free.

3 days to the first payday of 2008. Do we want money you do not have?
No, we do not. We want your attendance, people, at the Rio Cafe for the first spoken word cabaret of the year.

Headline act is Brian Whittinghame, author of "Drink the Green Fairy".

Bah Humbug! with special guests and floor spots for YOU

Bah Humbug!

All-day Christmas poetry/spoken word special
Penned in the Margins
Saturday, December 15, 2007
12:00am - 11:00pm
The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London

Email: info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk

Bah Humbug! is a Christmas party to remember. Throughout the day and on all three floors of the Betsey Trotwood there will be readings and performances by some of London’s top poets, comedians, musicians and spoken word artists.

Lazy Gramophone will be on hand with face-painting and seasonal fun. Tim Wells will be masquerading as Santa Claus. The lovely people from Legend Press, Pen Pusher, Succour and Trespass Magazine will sell their wares. There will be an open mic. There will be fairy lights. There may be mince pies. Failing that, there will be steak and kidney pies.

And because it’s Christmas all profits will go to charity.

We’ve put this together to celebrate what has been a breakthrough year for the poetry and spoken word scene. So if you’ve been part of the ‘revolution’ (that’s The Times, not us), or if you fancy dipping your toe into London’s most exciting underground arts scene, Bah Humbug! is for you.

* * *

Zena Edwards, Simon Munnery, Generation Txt, Tim Wells, Roddy Lumsden, Niall O'Sullivan, Ross Sutherland, D'Archetypes, Ventriloquist & Tongue Fu Band, Excentral Tempest, Yap and more tba!

Recommended donation £5
Midday til closing time

BIG WORD, EDINBURGH: Thursday 18th October

THE BIG WORD in Edinburgh

@ THE JAZZ BAR
First cabaret of the season!
THURSDAY 18TH OCTOBER
8.30 doors, show 9-11.30pm.
£4/3 concs.

Featuring: KEVIN CADWALLENDER, Rachel Jury, ROBIN CAIRNS, The Big Word Slam Winners (Bram Gieben, Graeme Hawley, Stephen Barnaby) PLUS music from DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL. Hosted by Jenny Lindsay. 07989 508 436

The Big Word's first cabaret of the season is upon us. Following an all new-style Slam in September, Big Word plans to keep the lyrical fires burning with a season of the best local, national, (and the occasional international) poets.

The bill features published poet KEVIN CADWALLENDER, who will read from his new collection Colouring In Guernica. Glasgow's finest, and host of Last Monday At Rio ROBIN CAIRNS , and Confab producer and poet RACHEL JURY make a welcome return. Not to be missed: the infamous and inimitable DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL makes an appearance, PLUS the finalists from September's Slam STEPHEN BARNABY (3rd place), GRAEME HAWLEY (2nd) and BRAM GIEBEN!

Edinburgh's longest running and always evolving poetry cabaret guarantees to amuse, astonish and possibly make you choke on The Jazz Bar's finest hops. A wildly diverse bill kicks off the season, and continues on THE THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

Hammer & Tongue Summer Cabarets at the Vaults

HAMMER AND TONGUE PRESENTS:

If music (and poetry) be the food of love, come and taste our

LATE 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