Crawley Wordfest: Spoken Word Sunday 1st April

Greetings!

This Sunday (1st April 2012), at Adelio's Open House in Crawley, I've asked to put together a spoken word evening as part of the ever expanding Crawley Wordfest. Now in it's second year, it's come on even stronger than last, all you need to do is have a look at the programme of events on the website. This is a great thing for me to be part of as  Crawley is the town where I did a lot of my growing up. I went to school there, I had and still have, good friends there, I first MCed in Crawley, I played football in Crawley, I went to cadets in Crawley, I got drunk (many times) in Crawley the list goes on....

I've called upon some good friends and some of London's strongest performers to come down and grace the stage, they go by the names of Dean Atta Rob Auton and Sean Mahoney. 

Doors open at 7:30 and it's a mere £3 on the door!

This is a video I did for last year's festival with Simon Edwards from Pop Up Media.

ME AND THE MARATHON

Why?!


That's normally the first question I get asked, when telling people that my brother and I are running this year's London Marathon. Once I explain the bit about raising money for charity, most people back down saying something along the lines of  'fair enough, good for you.'


The point is, what they are really asking, is why on earth are you RUNNING 26 MILES! Because, frankly, it's bonkers! And it is bonkers!


I don't exactly know what the answer is. Yes we are raising money for charity, and it's not just any chairty either, it's one that means a great deal to us as a family, but it's not the only reason. I think, as mad as we may seem, we both want to do it. It's a test, a massive test. We began a 14 week training program back in January and to date, have run over 170 Miles since we started (no thanks to the I Phone app Nike plus recording all of our runs) and we've been hitting mini targets and making and breaking personal bests, it's been fun, tiring, but damn, I'm enjoying it. 


I feel as fit as I've ever been, which in itself has a massive impact on the rest of my life, I generally run with my brother on the weekend, so I get to spend time with him and also see his wife and kids as Uncle Paul. Outside of running my visits are a  lot more infrequent. 


So far, it's been a very rewarding process, and both of us are looking forward to crossing the finishing line, fingers crossed, at in and around the 4 hour mark.


If you would like to sponsor us the link to our fundraising page is HERE the charity is ECHO who do great work for Heart children.


Wish us luck

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