Stretch The Weekend: Rubix In The Pub

No, not Hub, but Pub!


This Sunday, 4th Match, 7:30 till 10:30 at The Alex pub in Wimbledon..


The almighty Deanna Rodger has put togethor a night of Spoken Word at The Alex in Wimbledon. there will be DJ's, open mike plus Rubix Dons Bridget Minamore, Dean Atta and Sean Mahoney who will also be hosting!

Facbook link HERE

Vision Overground

So I mentioned a couple of weeks ago the music my brother Gatekeeper is involved in creating. Well, I'm excited to say that there has been a project bubbling away now for a while which is now seeing the light of day!

Vision Overground consists of Gatekeeper on productions, with MC's Grilza, Ryder Shaifq and the vocal's of Sohpie G. Have a wee listen to a couple of clips they have put up recently on their Soundcloud page. I believe one of the tracks was recently featured on Mary Anne Hobb's XFM show.

Sean Mahoney - TV lights

Good afternoon


Happy Monday. Happy valentines day, whether or not you choose to celebrate, or you just don't have anyone to celebrate with, or your significant other has had to cancel all plans because of circumstances beyond his / her control (such as Brighton vs Millwall tonight, come on you Lions!!!).


Regardless of all of that, this is a exceptional piece of spoken word from my good friend Sean Mahoney, whom I've learnt loads from having been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with him through the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Rubix and the adventures we've had running round Edinburgh 2 years in a row plus the now countless other  gigs we've done together. 


The video has been released today by Upshot TV for Valentines day and was filmed on home turf at The Roundhouse. Looks like theve got some other good video's coming up with the likes of Greeds, Indigo Willams and Deanna Rodger to name but a few. Sean is also a stand up comedian and is well worth following on twitter, he keeps me amused! Follow him HERE.

James Massiah Presents The THE (Winter 11/12)

Hello!


This Monday at the The Riflemaker Gallery in Soho I'm lucky enough to be performing at this event put on by very good poet and very nice guy James Massiah. The line up features is what I would call 'Levels' ie: it's big!!

Musa Okwonga
Deanna Rodger
Martyna Baker
Sean Mahoney 
Wilfred Trinder
Vanessa Ferdinand
James Massiah 
Conrad The Scoundral
Chimene Suleyman
The Freewheelin' Troubadour 
GREEdS
Bridget Minamore
Paul Cree
& 
Special Guests

Have a look, and come down, it's not very often I get to perform in spaces like this!

FACEBOOK EVENT LINK

She Says

Sat on a cold, hard, shapeless plastic chair

In a sterile hotel corridor,

which smells of damp towels,

disinfected of life.

Sipping on tasteless tea,

brought from an overpriced machine,

whilst the love of your life,

is in the wedding suite,

sipping on champagne,

making love to a man with bigger muscles,

but not much to say.

You tell yourself he's allright

and you're happy for her,

whilst pretending,

you can't hear her high pitched moans,

which fracture,

the fine wine glass rim of your feelings,

and his,

low frequency mumbles,

like earthquake tremors,

to the very structure of your manhood,

because when she's done,

you're giving her a lift home,

like you always do,

because you're friends,

she told you so,

and you agreed.

PAGE MATCH 2: BIGGER AND BOLDER!!!

Ah yes, the Pagematch 2!!

The wonderful people over at BANG SAID THE GUN, who run, what is in my opinion, one of the best spoken word nights in London (and there are a lot these days!) have put together, in a way that only they can, the second instalment of the almighty battle that is  PAGE MATCH.

Essentially, this is about fun (The idea was conceived at a very late and drunken hour at a field, in a tent, at the Meadowlands festival last summer) . It's the coming together of some of London's best  spoken word collectives in one event, with all the exaggeration of a classic WWF Royal Rumble. 

The line up speaks for itself. Make no mistake, these are heavyweights! Last year's (suspicious) winners Bang Said The Gun, will be competing alongside my camp, The Rubix, as well as solid contenders Ditry Hands, The Roundhouse Poetry Collective and new but by no means unknown teams Chil Pill, Wordamouth and Apples and Snakes. The judges are as they were, Salena Godden, Charlie Dark and Nial O' Sullivan. It's going to be epic! Only problem is, a renegade collective has sprung up and stolen the Page Match Belt, calling themselvs the PAP see below! ... (for the record this has nothing, nothing, nothing whatsever to do with me, or Sean Mahoney or Peter Hayhoe....nothing at all)