Friday 24 August 2012

Cross Roads

Greetings!

Last night I saw a screening of a very amazing documentary about the London riots called Riot From Wrong made by a group of very talented young people, in fact, just people. It's a mugg off calling them Young People because the documentary would more than stand on its own against anything  I've seen or read so far on the riots. I was very moved by it! If you get a chance, watch!

I was a fortunate enough to be asked to perform as part of the screening which was a real pleasure. Funnily enough, I'd just finished recording the video to Crossroads last week when I got the email asking me to take part in the screening. 

The video below was filmed by Mellow 9 Productions. Hope you enjoy!



Friday 10 August 2012

Words From The Archive: #3 Gill's secret Santa

So this one here I must have wrote back in 2006. It was before I'd ever gone to a single poetry night because I read it out the first time I performed at Poetry Unplugged, and that was in April 2007.
I have a whole file of these poems, mostly quite silly and generally with punchlines at the end and nearly all with unimagintaive titles like this one. 
It was written for a lady called Gill, unsurprisingly, who was the manager of the accounts department of a small finance company I used to work for. In that great office Christmas tradition we all did a Secret Santa and I drew her name. Instead of going for the usual wacky presents in the £10 region, like dildo's or penis enlargement kits, I opted to write her this and stick in a frame. I think I put some nice bath salts in with in with it as well so it was not a complete cop out. Anyway, she laughed when she read it and actually rang the number at the bottom, suffice to say I wasn't comedy enough to have used to a real one....


GILL'S SECRET SANTA

YOU SIT THERE WORKING HARD WITH ALL THE FIGURES AND THE FACTS
LOTS OF DIFFERENT NUMBERS MUST EQUATE TO A LOT OF MATHS
YOU SOUND LIKE YOU MUST KNOW KNOW YOUR JOB,
AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO
BUT IF YOU ASK ME WHAT YOU DO,
I REALLY HAVANT GOT A CLUE
WITHIN YOUR DEARTMENT
IBET YOUR INDESPNSEABLE
BUT YOUR ALSO ROCK'N ROLL
YOU WENT TO A FESTIVAL
YOU WONDANT DO NO DRUGS
'COS THATS AGAINST THE LAW
BUT IF YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MIND
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MERRY CHRISTMAS