BookSlam
Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 08:40 PM
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Book Slam @ The Tabernacle
Powis Square, London, W11 2AY
Doors open at 6pm, stuff starts at 8pm
Tickets:
£6 advance/ £8 door
Put aside your resolutions and your indifference and come retox at the first Book Slam of the new decade. Please note, we've gone mid-month on account of all sorts of forthcoming shenanigans. Our guests include: -
JON MCGREGOR - Booker-listed for both 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things' and 'So Many Ways To Begin', he'll be reading from his forthcoming novel, 'Even The Dogs'. Jon's one of the best contempary writers I've read and one of the worst footballers I've ever seen ...
JOSEPHINE ONIYAMA - just the most tender and entrancing singer-songwriter ('an old soul singer in a beautiful young girl' - Guy Garvey [Elbow]).
DAN ANTOPOLSKI - the smartest Antopolski on Brixton Hill and winner of the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Festival.
Hosted by the incomparable FRANCESCA BEARD - poet, raconteur and every child's favourite grown-up.
happy Christmas
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 01:43 AM
Hey there.
Doing the Xmas present wrapping. Present wrapping, like taxes and death, is better drunk.
Not sure about the death bit. Still.I like to gamble drunk.
Cabaret Simon is going guns. Thanks for asking.
I love my Cab Simon crew. We got the Spirit of the Blitz thing going on.
Probably because we are being paid £peanuts an hour. It's a show for 4 -10 yr olds. I do this vaguely improvised thing. Just before I go on, they line up and spunk me with the most catchy, sparkling profanities their putrid, sicko minds can dredge up.
Just discovered Vampire Weekend.
Oxford Comma. Swoon.
I want to be in a band again. Lyrics are flowing out my fingertips.
CABARET SIMON!
Friday, December 11, 2009, 10:01 AM
I've been at the Barbican, rehearsing for Cabaret Simon.
It's great. Really classy. I'm ridiculously unequivocally positive about this one.
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Cabaret Simon - A variety show for 4-10 year olds
Lone Twin and Stuart Silver
16 - 31 December 2009 / 12:00, 18:00, 13:00, 16:30, 15:00
The Pit
Tickets: All seats £6.50
No discounts apply
subject to availability
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, prepare to be amazed this festive season by Cabaret Simon.
Meet your irrepressible host and master of ceremonies, Simon, holder of the unequalled title of World’s Funniest Simon.
This unforgettable extravaganza brings together a truly remarkable band of entertainers in a show that’s intriguing, surprising and magical. Join us for this sensational seasonal spectacular.
The acts are: word wizard Francesca Beard ; flamenco dervish Samantha Quy ; double-act Anti-Frizz , who take on the challenge to create the world’s fastest panto ; madcap mind-bending experimenter Little Professor Walton; Kwabana Lindsay , as the clumsiest circus performer ever to fall from a stage and Mr Melon whose terrible secret will soon be revealed.
Performance time: Start times vary - see booking page
Running time: 45 mins/no interval
Latecomers will not be admitted
Age guidance 4—10 years
No unaccompanied adults, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
Produced and commissioned by barbicanbite09 in association with Lone Twin
Directed by Lone Twin and Stuart Silver
Co-devised by Lone Twin, Stuart Silver and Guy Dartnell
Performed by Guy Dartnell
In consultation with the Children’s Forum at
Discover, Stratford, East London
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3 Gigs um today.
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 10:46 AM
Continuing my super-moronic tradition of crap marketing, I'm announcing some very up-coming gigs.
First two are at 1.30pm and 4.30pm today. Hey, I'm still in my pjamas and have yet to do my OCD yoga, so if I can make it to
SPIN @
The Half Moon YPT,
43 White Horse Lane, London E1 0ND
so can you. It's for ages 8 - 11. I guess that means mental ages too. If you are 8 - 11 you should not be reading this blog, unless your mental age is over 18. If you are over 18, you can be reading this blog, no matter what your mental age. I'll take what I can get, and frankly, my expectations, like my standards are low. Plus, my abilities.
OK. this evening, I'm planning to do something new. I've amazed myself. That's at least one person. The picture below probably accurately reflects John's face when I tell him I plan to do something new. Because the rest of the show is going to be quality.
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Tonight: The Fix Presents... at the Camden Head. It will clearly be an embarrassment of talent, featuring John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Nathan Penlington and MC Stephen Carlin) And me. Doors 7.30pm
Snowy Copenhage, Sunny Coimbra
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 01:47 PM
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I'm in Denmark for a couple of days, on the opening leg of the World Wide Words Literature Tour that Peter Bensted is starting up.
Very good to hear MC Jabber in genuis mumble-mode again.
Yesterday, we were at Næstved Library, tonight, it's Stars, a club in Vordingborg.
After the gig last night, we drove back to Copenhagen in Peter's jeep. It was snowing. Jeeps are like moving metal boxes. Not that snuggly. For some reason, I assumed Copenhagen would be unexpectedly warm, like Namibia and Portugal. Even debated packing sunglasses. Instead, snow. I have brought very inappropriate clothes and in order to keep warm, am eating like the North Wind. We went for a kebab after the show, but a classy one. Cutlery and everything.
I don't like to be teased when I finish the food off other people's plates. If someone says you can have their salad, I think it's bad form to then turn around and mock them.
;)
Scott (MC JAbber) and I went for a walk around Copenhagen this afternoon. Not snowing, but cold. We stopped in at the Kafeteatr to see Erling, aka The Silver Fox.
One of my favourite ever venues, one of my favourite artistic directors. We talked briefly about LondonTales, I'd like to bring it to the Kafeteatr. We'll see if the funding comes through for the r & d.
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I have no pictures from Coimbra, Portugal, but I've grabbed some screenshots from the British Council Second Life site.
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At the APPI Conference for English Teachers, Fitch arranged for a Second Life broadcast simultaneous with the performance/talk around BritLit, the on-line programme which uses literature to teach English.
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Joe Perreira operated my avatar, London Inventor, and fed-back SL audience comments during the participation bits. The live audience could see the SL audience and my avatar on a big screen. The feed-back was good. I reckon it could be worthwhile doing more stuff like that - it felt much more natural than doing radio, say to a live studio audience.
Actually, I loved it. Even though Joe said my avatar was rubbish. Actually I think he said 'It's not that good' but his face was screaming 'fugly!' He quickly tried to change it plus my clothes which I had 'done' myself, but people were already there for the start, with the result that I was in my virtual pants before an international actual and virtual audience. People in Argentina saw me in digital pants. Then I had to wear a radio mic so that I could be heard on Second Life and I was wearing a dress so then everyone saw, not my actual pants but my leggings which are, like wife-beater vests, in that grey area of clothing which only the very young can publically sport and in any case shouldn't be flashed around at a conference.
About the avatar, I think I get it now. I tried to make it look like me - ie downsized the tits, widened the shoulders and the waist, un-bigged the hair. I bridled at Joe's attempts to re-mould me back but having been on Second Life and seeing what a freak I look besides all the other avatars, I'm going to have to get with the programme. I mean, my stage persona isn't like me, at home, without any kind of thing, eating cereal in my pjamas. Oh, wait, it is.
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