poetcurious @ Tristan Bates theatre - 20/08/2011

The Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to London's Tristan Bates theatre in London's Covent Garden. I will be hosting a night of poetry on the 20th August to run alongside the exhibition. Some of London's finest open mic performers and featured guest poets will perform on the theme of broken relationships as well as writing/improvising a piece in response to the exhibition and performing it in a slam format. This will culminate in the 2 top poets battling it out head-to-head in a final round of odes to lost love! As well as that there will an open mic round and good music in the gaps!! Tickets available via the Tristan bates website here.

SGP2011

Check out my Saturday afternoon set at Secret Garden Party. The Valley Of The Antics stage hosted me and Angry Sam last year and were good enough to have us back to open the show this year. Big up Theo for hooking us up.

My stand out performances of the weekend were:

Blondie's flawless vocals

The Resonators Sunday morning set

Stanton Warriors dutty DJ set

Switch & Khalil @ Wormfood on Saturday night

and much, much more.

SGP may be less of a secret than a few years ago but it's still a hell of a good festival. Can't wait for next year!!

Muddyloop feat. Ambrosius - NEW SINGLE - Mixtape - OFFICIAL VIDEO

Another solid summer pop dutty anthem from the Muddyloop crew. If you don't know, get to know quickly cos the Muddyloop bandwagon is leaving the depot...All aboard!

Buy it on iTunes here quickly!!

Gullyvers Tonight @ The Alibi, Dalston.

Gettin' gully!!

curious & Angry Sam in today's Guardian...

It is only a couple of weeks since myself and Angry Sam hosted The Guardian for a school poetry slam. Following slam conventions, the poets performed poems from the Year 9 anthology for the judgement of an audience of 300 teenagers. Blake and Wordsworth battled it out with Kate Tempest and Linton Kwesi Johnson; with Kwesi taking top honours!! There was also a performance from a year 9 student who won the school's London Poetry competition with a poignant and image-laden piece of highly-crafted writing. One for the future, surely!

--> Big thanks to Judy and Richard from The Guradian for supporting this event and producing this article.

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OPEN/WIDE featuring - Chester P - 18/6/2011

Task Force's Chester P is UK hip-hop royalty (but without all the reptile ish)! Rhyming almost endlessly for DjGone here, Chester P is a poet, MC and social commentator with the skill to address the deepest topics with simplest words and phrases. Chester's references range from the pop culture of kids toys and cartoon clips to the philosophies of Foucault and Heidegger and all are painted with the vivid imagery of North London life in all its glories!!

DO NOT MISS Chester P at OPEN/WIDE on Saturday.*

*if you DO miss Chester P at OPEN/WIDE on Saturday you will regret it!!

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"I'M NOT A RAPPER" NEW VIDEO + EVENT DETAILS FOR THIS WEEK

Recorded at FreeStyles at Favela Chic in April, "I'm Not A Rapper" is curious' slam-winning attack on the British arms trade. Scathing imagery and wry humour combine to produce a poem that packs a punch like a Scud in a school yard!!

More curious affairs ------------>

Tuesday 14th June. FreeStyles hosts Salena Godden and Talia Randall

Saturday 18th June. OPEN/WIDE is London's MOST open mic night.

For more information on these and future WORDAMOUTH / curious events, check out the "wordamouth" page on facebook and hit the 'like' button.

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