History
Friday, August 12, 2005, 06:44 PM
Gigography1996 - Hard Edge Club (first ever paid gig, a ten minute set booked by Tim Wells. John Cooper Clarke was head-lining. On his request, I got him a tequila from the bar. Spent the next week thinking if I die now, at least I’ll have done something worthwhile.
1997 - Bunjies Folk Cellar on Street(where Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, blah blah also played, now a pizza restaurant.
1998 - Big Word, Islington, run by Jem Rolls
1998 - Express Excess at the Enterprise with Paul Lyalls
1998 - Apples and Snakes, BAC
1998 - Slam Olympics, Boston, Mass
1998 - Roskilde Festival, Denmark (performed every afternoon, with MC Jabber, Paul Lyalls, Jem Rolls, JC001, and Lucy English in a stage just opposite the dance tent; no one could hear us. We were housed in a shed.)
1997, 2000 - Glastonbury, the mud years.
1998 - NuYorican Café, NY, NY
2000 - Cithea, Paris, with Piers Faccini, as Charley Marlowe
2001 - Night Town, Rotterdam with Roger Robinson and Saul Williams.
2002, 2003 - Café Teatret, Copenhagen
2002, 2003 - Gadesjakket, Odense, Denmark
2002 - Tour of Bulgaria for the British Council with Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Malika Booker and Piers Faccini – Hannah Henderson at the Live Literature Department
2002 - Prague, through Renaissance One, for the British Council
2003 - The Spinning Wheel; Babble. Melbourne, Australia
2003 - Medellin, Colombia, with the British Council
2003 - Baku, Azerbaijan, with the British Council
2004 - Moscow, Russia with the British Council
2001 - London Open House Festival of Architecture, commisioned to do a poem for the Imagination Building on Store Street.
2002 - Biennale Internationale, Torino, Winner of the International Slam but only because the clear crowd favourite dropped 5 points in time penalties.
2002 - Romapoesia, loser of the International Slam.
2002 - Crossing Border, Amsterdam
2003 - Aldeburgh Literature Festival
2003 - Bath International Performance Poetry Conference
2003 - International Poetry Festival, Medellin, Colombia, with the British Council. Performed in an amphitheatre at midnight by torch-light to 3,000 people. Also, in a men’s prison.
2003 - Podring, Switzerland – Saw some great African bands, swam in a lake and ate the sweetest tomato I’ve ever tasted – the Rose of Bern.
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Animal Olympics Dates
31st July – 25th August (not 11th)
1130
Animal Olympics
Drawing Room/Assembly Theatre
George Street.
6th September
Animal Olympics
Ealing Literary Festival
28th September
Animal Olympics
Watermans Theatre
Brentford
25th October
Animal Olympics
Barnsley Diversity Festival.
1st November
Animal Olympics (story-telling slot)
Polka Theatre
Wimbledon.
15th November
Animal Olympics
St Albans
16th November
Animal Olympics
Stratford Festival
8th February 2009
Animal Olympics
Arts Depot
London
28th March 2009
Animal Olympics
Nordern Farm Arts
29th March 2009
Animal Olympics
Reading South Street
4th April University of Warwick
NATE Conference 2008
Performance: 20.15 - 21.15
9th - 12th April 2008
'Chinese Whispers' in Portugal with the British Council.
(venues and times to follow)
Express Excess Birthday Party
23rd Jan 2008
'Animal Olympics',
South Bank Imagine Children's Festival
in the Purcell Rooms on the 20th Feb 2008 at 11.30am.
Some Public Performances in 2007.
14th &15th JULY
Latitude Festival, Southwold, the Poetry Tent.
(also BBC Tent 15th July).
4th and/or 5th AUGUST
Brockwell Park Lido.
11th &12th AUGUST
Poetry Party, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Meadows.
8th SEPTEMBER
Romapoesia, Rome, Italy.
16th - 25th SEPTEMBER
British Council Vietnam. Venues tbc
26th SEPTEMBER - 5th OCTOBER.
British Council, Manila, The Philippines. Venues tbc
16th NOVEMBER
Watford Festival
www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk
Box office number 01923 225 671.
Some Public Performances in 2006
Poetry Tent at Latitude Festival 14th - 16th July 06
(I've also got a short play on in the Theatre Tent at Latitude, as the Royal Court is presenting 'Angry Now', a showcase of new British writing. In which I am.)
2nd August, Roddy Lumsden's BroadCast night in London.
Edinburgh Book Fair in a British Council showcase on the 19th August.
Pleasance Dome,
Pentabus Theatre's 'White Open Spaces'.
Chinese Whispers at Cheltenham Literary Festival, October 2006
20 &21 April 2006 Chinese Whispers, Salisbury Playhouse
1 - 3 April 06 Bangkok International Book Fair with the British Council
26/3/06 Family Workshops at the Natural History Museum
25/3/06 Chinese Whispers at Leicester Phoenix
22/3/06 Chinese Whispers at Birmingham Rep
17/3/06 Huddersfield Literature Festival, with Patrick Neate's Book Slam
3/3/06 Get London Reading Event at Castlenau Library, Hammersmith
2/3/06 Chinese Whispers at Theatre Royal, Stratford East
26/2/06 Family Workshops at the Natural History Museum
25/2/06 Chinese Whispers at the Croydon Clocktower
24/2/06 Children's Poetry Bookshelf Gala at the Unicorn, with Daisy Goodwin, Aidrain Mitchell, Mandy Coe and Ian McMillan
22/2/06 Express Excess 10th Birthday Bash, with Paul Lyalls, Mark Gwynne Jones and Roger Robinson
20/2/06 Poetry Cafe with John Hegley and Friends
14/2/06 Local Government Conference on Sustainable Communities at the ICC Birmingham with Arts Council East
12/2/06 Family and Identity at the British Library with BBC Roots.
29/1/06 Family Workshops at the Natural History Museum, 2.30pm and 3.30pm
13/1/06 Island Queen Pub, Angel.
18/12/05 - Open Workshops at the Natural History Museum.
17/12/05 Performance for 'Vibes in the Libes' at Luton Libraries.
5/12/05 - Workshops with John Hegleyat Lumb Bank, for the Arvon Foundation.
3/11/05 Performance of 'Chinese Whispers' at the Brewery iin Kendall, Lake District
9/11/05 Poetry Performance, Manilla, Phillipines
21/11/05 - White Open Spaces, The Hurst Arvon Foundation
27/11/05 - Open Workshops in the Creepy Crawlies Gallery at the Natural History Museum
Bibliography
1998 - Gargoyle (Black Spring Press)
1998, 2003 - Cheap Date, The Idler, Ape, Rising, PIL, Saltpetre…
2001 - Oral (Hodder & Stoughton)
2001 - Dazed and Confused Annual
2001, 2002 - Guardian Guide Column: Francesca Beard’s Weekend
2002 - Chris Ofili’s Freedom One Day (Victoria Miro Gallery)
2002 - Short Fuse (The Global Anthology of New Poetry) (Rattapallax Press)
2003 - Westside Storeys (The Xpress)
2003 - Kin (Serpent’s Tail)
2003 - Velocity (The Best of Apples and Snakes, Black Spring Press)
2004 - The Poetry Store (compiled by Paul Cookson)
Discography
2002 - Charley Marlowe - This Could Be You EP