My
Writer in Residence with YouAreHere 2013 is under way. Follow this link to the YouAreHere website where
you will find some words courtesy of speaking with Chiara Grassia and Nat Clark
of the Canberra Zine Emporium. They are currently seeking zine-makers for their
fair on 23 March, the deadline for booking a table is 8 Feb, email them:
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Poetry Slam
@ The Phoenix Pub |
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
is inside The Phoenix Pub for 2013, which means you get two microphones, a
stage, plenty of sound, prizes and more prizes, audience, clapping, prizes,
judges, cheering, heckling, and the chance of glory! With MCs too, and scoring
along with adding, prizes, conflicting, and poetry, especially poetry, at the
Phoenix Pub, this is a poetry slam.
Yes, we want
what words you've got on stage at the Phoenix!
For 2
minutes!
For
Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit!
And this
month we will be featuring the Captain of the Rant with his poetry.
This is
Captain of the Rant's bio:
“London-based
Captain of the Rant has been performing his uniquely witty, fiery spoken word
since May 2008. He has performed all over the UK, Thailand and Malaysia, and
has now come to Australia to inform the uniformally chilled out populace that
there is still very much to be angry about.”
And The Sinbirds with their music.
This is The
Sinbirds' bio:
“Having
discovered the records of their grandfather and his backing band (Johnny Paul
Blood and The Sacrificers), Davey and Frankie have spent a considerable amount
of time re-recording the tracks; to suit modern tastes, to bring jukebox
heartbreak back to the masses, and to pull their grandfather out of the dark corners
of Australian music obscurity and into the light of fame which his hard work
and groundbreaking music deserves. This is the Sinbirds.”
And filling
the Hadley Memorial Poetry Slots in the Phoenix Pub for a mini-feature will be
Raphael Kabo — Senior Kabo to you, you crusty old poets.
So be at
Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! on 16 January with your words, your hands, your judges,
your poetry, for poetry, for prizes, for all kinds of stuff like stuff.
And remember,
2 minutes, no music, no props, and your original material at the Phoenix Pub.
Friday, January 11, 2013
GnR, Elvis, and Sinatra play Glebe Park
In the depths of Canberra's 2014 winter the 1988 Guns and Roses opened this triple headed concert on the Glebe Park stage with Welcome to the Jungle, an
unusual way to start, but their set didn't let up for 40 minutes of tight and simultaneously rambling heavily sweated numbers from their albums Appetite for Destruction and G N' R Lies.
GnR was
followed by 1970 Elvis Presley crooning both to the distant Bega Flats and the
overlooking Crown Casino. In response the crowd spilled onto crotchet rugs from set beginning to another strange song choice, his finale and farewell song, In
the Ghetto.
Then the
1959 Frank Sinatra took the stage. And through favourites that had the
crowd kicking on their rugs, and among cameos from 1960's proto-Rat Packers (as well as William
Shatner), Sinatra held the Canberra crowd to the conclusion of his final song, Al Hoffman's I'm Gonna
Live Until I Die.
All-in-all this was a solid night of music; with enough variation to cater to Canberra's diverse crowds but with a through-line of humanity and mortality that held the three acts together for the evening.
And in other arts related news, issue nineteen of The Delinquent is now out in its thermals.
And in other arts related news, issue nineteen of The Delinquent is now out in its thermals.
Featuring:
Rodney
Nelson, Duygu Senocak, Lucy Winrow, Daniel Lehan, Nicholas Francis, Spencer
Golub &David Hancock, Tim Keane, Caitlin Hoffman, Clive Birnie, Andrew
Galan, Eleanor Perry, Christopher Barnes, Bela Farkas, Claudine Toutoungi,
Melissa Mann, Robert McCorquodale, Vincent JS Wood, Phil Callaghan, Dan
Melling, Michelle Matthees, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Jim Meirose, Edwin Sellors,
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Bethany Pope, Tanaka Mhishi, Charles Pitter, Matt
Dennison, Ray Diamond, Charlie Geoghegan-Clements, Jim Alderson, Dan Stathers,
B. E. Smith, Matthew Griffiths, Susana H. Case, Ian Goodale, Jeremy Quinn,
Duncan Jones, Martin Jones, Graham Fulton, Rosemary Norman, Meredith Collins,
Nicole Kuwik, David Cudar, Rupert M Loydell, Harry Downey, Mark Blayney, Peter
Ebsworth, John Aaron Rosen, Jason King, and artwork by Daniel Lehan.
The cover and
interior photographs are by Eleanor Leonne Bennett.
The Delinquent
issue 19 is available from Amazon as an ebook - Delinquent issue 19 on Amazon - and Lulu in both print & pdf versions.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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