A Spoonful Of Poison - chaotic OPEN MIC
performance - all welcome
Monday 19th May 2008
This weeks guest performers:
CELEBRITY CHIMP
After a very successful stint as the public face of PP Pips
tea bags, Celebrity Chimp has launched a new career as a musician.
Blending traditional sounds of America with a driving, hammering
rhythm, Celebrity Chimp demonstrates an amazing openness and
maturity towards his music which has resulted in some fantastic
bluegrass-punk tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/celebritychimp
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GRASSY NOEL
Social Surrealistic Psychotic Performance
Poetry from the crazy Grassy Noel ....
Orchestrated with choreographed balletic movement..... gentle
on the eyes, tender on the ears...
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VIC LAMBRUSCO
Co-founded London's first independent "performance poetry"
club, the Hard Edge, 1989-97. Writes politically incorrect,
in-yer-face verse, which seeks to entertain rather than obfuscate.
Has grown to despise the complacent pomposity of the "issue-hopping"
middle-class arts-funding establishment, and now more typically
performs in comedy venues. Proudest poetic moment: when audience
member Mick Jones (of the Clash) congratulated him after a gig.
Author of two pamphlets:"Oo wants it?!" and "Vic
Lambrusco has it large". In 1996 he was featured on CD
"Misfits" (Volume Records). Some TV and a lot of radio
work, including "Loose Ends" (BBC Radio 4), "The
Big Breakfast" (Channel 4), a weekly slot on Greater London
Radio in 1998, and a weekly slot (as the "Media Assassin")
on London Live in 2000. Has gigged all over the UK from Plymouth
to Edinburgh, plus four short tours of Germany, which took in
Hamburg and Berlin, and in 1999 he was included in "Oral",
an anthology of British verse at the end of the millennium.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207511132
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RAISING OBJECTIONS
They met up on gumtree, both looking for something a little
different. Jason posted an add for starting an impov orchestra,
Rima needed a drummer for a duet. She decided to steal him away
from the orchestra before it began. They have been playing together
since June 2007, having weekly gigs at an open mic on Brick
Lane that Rima was hosting. Since then, they have been going
around the open mic circuit of London, playing weekly gigs,
and working on a demo to expand their performances, first London,
then the world.
http://www.myspace.com/raisingobjections
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+ 18 open mic slots!!
