A Spoonful Of Poison - chaotic OPEN MIC
performance - all welcome
Monday 16th June 2008
This weeks guest performers:
SCRATCH ATTITUDE
Scratch Attitude follow their successful ten-night residency
in the Window Gallery of St Martin’s Art College, by performing
live at Rhythm Factory.
Scratch Attitude uses art as its foundation and both Clive
Alexander Stewart and Graeme Milton use the English language
to deliver an impact on the viewer.
The performance tonight will see Clive reading from his art
canvases containing carefully collaged media stories, newspaper
quotes, song lyrics and literary references. The words will
be backed by tight beats played live on drum kit by Graeme.
The performance promise to add a visceral edge to proceedings.
The pieces are short and sharp, and some are quite confrontational.
http://www.scratchattitude.com/home.htm
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ERNESTO THE NAKED POET
Ernesto Sarezale - cognitive scientist, published poet, performer,
video artist, Central London Farrago Poetry Slam Champion 2006,
BUTT magazine centrefold & award winning academic - with
a baffling interest in postmenopausal female breasts and an
unreserved dislike for spam. A refreshingly surreal and slightly
unsettling adition to the live performance scene, far too good
for the navel gazers to keep to themselves...
http://www.myspace.com/sarezale
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FERGUS ROUGIER
'Groove-driven jazz pop played out in a theatrical
style on a pumped-up accordion by a man that likes to move.'
A set will include a connected series of songs and narration
best described as "Musical Storytelling for Adults".
The theme tends towards boys and girls: bedroom stuff. Intimate,
bombastic, surreal and funny, the songs might make you laugh
and maybe even think. As a piece of entertainment, it's not
something you'll likely to have experienced before. It grabs
your attention, keeps it and when finished, spits it out...
Fergus sees himself as a contemporary Song-and-Dance Man. His
songs are stories accompanied by stylised movement to create
a theatrical effect. He has performed extensively around London,
Manchester and Brighton and when living in Germany, Berlin and
Hamburg. He has played return gigs to Amsterdam and Copenhagen
and is looking forward to another tour of Japan after a 3 month
summer theatre tour of North America. Filmed as part of a BBC
TV documentary, reviewed on ITV's London news and extensively
in the press, this is one-man music theatre.
http://www.myspace.com/fergusrougier
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+ 18 open mic slots!!
