Final London fling for The Dinner Ladies. Porky the Poet was the stage name of Phill Jupitus.
A decade is a very, very long time in performance poetry, so this was a well-earned celebration. However, one despatch to Time Out’s letters page (24 Sep) found the show to be ‘a sickened, weakened thing’, thanks to ‘pollution by PCAs (politically correct attitudes)’. Proof that you can’t please all ...
Hegley-devised slam in which competitors had to perform a poem about a dog or a potato. Or both. Won by Jude Simpson.
22 April 2005
Minidisc recording of The Graduates show at BAC, featuring John Hegley, Lucy English, Kimberley Sutherland, Gemma Cammidge, Yemisi Blake, Young Hackney Voices
21 April 2006
Mini-DV tape of first half of Hegley’s Choice show at BAC.
21 April 2006
Mini-DV tape of second half of Hegley’s Choice show at BAC.
Launch for Shot from the Lip – a festival marking a new initiative to get London audiences interested in poetry. That old chestnut. A&S, hoping for a Ziggy Stardust/(What’s the Story) Morning Glory moment, sent Lucy, Abraham and the photographer round Soho in a black cab until they clinched this definitive (and ...
28 February 2007
Minidisc recording of first half of Apples & Snakes in Soho/Shot From The Lip launch, featuring John Hegley, Fran Landesman, Abraham Gibson, Patience Agbabi.
28 February 2007
Minidisc recording of second half of Shot From The Lip launch (aka first Apples and Snakes in Soho show), featuring John Hegley, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Billy Childish, Lucy English.