‘UTTER!’ Spoken Word Edinburgh 2010

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‘Utter!’ spoken word, Edinburgh Fringe 2010

(venue 156, page 139.)

Given that Richard Tyrone Jones, the Director of ‘Utter!’ spoken word, was hit by chronic heart failure in March, leaving him gasping for breath and walking with the aid of a stick and a pacemaker, he really shouldn’t be taking on the Edinburgh festival at all.

But rather than act sensibly and look after his health, the ‘ringmaster of spoken word’ (ThreeWeeks) has instead enlisted the help of over 80 poetic friends and guest hosts to ensure ‘Utter!’ spoken word returns again as the Flagship gig of the burgeoning Spoken Word phenomena at the festival – specifically, the spoken word section of PBH’s award-winning Free Fringe.

‘Utter!’ presents 22 shows with a brand new lineup each night, including firm festival favourites such as John Hegley, Baba Brinkman and Simon Munnery, showcasing many up-and-coming performers hitting the fringe solo for the first time such as Ross Sutherland, Tim Clare, radio 4’s Kate Fox, Tim Turnbull and Helen Mort, and many talented local bards such as Robin Cairns, Anita Govan, Chemical Poets and Jenny Lindsay (of ‘Is This Poetry?’)

This year, each show boasts a different theme: on various nights, Femmes Fatales wield poetic stilettoes (Aug 8th), we team up with global sensation literarydeathmatch.com (Tue 10^th), take advantage of our venue being ‘the most Haunted pub in Scotland’ with ‘Utter!’ Ghoulies (Friday 13^th), showcase future bestselling writers with the Univerity of East Anglia’s top graduates (Tue 17^th), ‘Yo! Utter! Raps’ with Baba Brinkman (Weds 18^th), Jocks have a go against Geordies (Thurs 19^th) and we decide the stars of tomorrow at Utter!’s Got talent on Fri 27^th.

We’ve got so much talent, sometimes an hour isn’t enough. On Mon 16^th we start early at 6.30pm, welcoming John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Tim Clare and other Luton-based (or lute-playing) minstrels for a two-hour Luton special (because doing it in Luton would just be too easy). And on Monday 23^rd we do the same to welcome poets from SALT publishing, the most prolific poetry publisher in the UK, hosted by Edinburgh’s own Rob A. Mackenzie. So we hope you’ll join us for “a refreshing change from the never ending list of comedians” (hairline), especially as, for Richard Tyrone Jones, this year dying on stage is a literal concern…

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Please read on for contact details and the line-ups so far….

Website: www.utterspokenword.com
Facebook event (with hi-res photos): http://bit.ly/uttered10

Phone number: 07912 539 098 Email: richardtyronejones@gmail.com

‘Utter!’ spoken word runs from Sat 7th - Sat 28th August 2010, at 7.30pm daily (1hr) except on Monday 16th & Monday 23rd (starting 6.30pm, 2 hrs).

Banshee Labyrinth (Banqueting Hall), 29-35 Niddry Street EH1 1LG.

Venue 156, Fringe brochure page 139.

…And all this is just one show of more than 30 in the FREE Spoken Word section of the PBH Free Fringe 2010, centred at the Banshee Labyrinth. For a full lineup see www.freefringe.org.uk or the facebook event at http://bit.ly/edsword

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‘Utter!’ spoken word LINEUPS:

WEEK ONE

Sat 7th: Utter! Tims - Tims Clare, Turnbull & Wells, plus open Tim. Guest host: Tim Phillips

Sat 8th: Utter! Femmes - Guest host Sophia Blackwell, Mab Jones, Cat Brogan, Keely Mills, Kate Fox

Mon 9th: Utter! Weirdness - Charlotte Young, Jow Lindsay, Milton Balgoni, HotDoctors (TBC)

Tues 10th. Utter! Literary Deathmatch - 4 top performers go head to head in the format that’s conquered 6 continents. Hammer & Tongue’s Steve Larkin vs Utter!’s Niall Spooner-Harvey vs Scotland’s Jenny Lindsay vs Molly Naylor. Judges: Liz Niven, Ross Sutherland and Tim Wells. www.literarydeathmatch.com

Weds 11th: Utter! Youth - Katie Byard, Harry Baker, Young Dawkins.

Thurs 12th: Utter! Filth - Baba Brinkman, Chris Young, Pete the Temp, James McKay, the Monkey Poet.

Fri 13th. Utter! Ghoulies - Helen Mort, Tim Turnbull, Gavin Inglis, Ernesto Sarezale.

WEEK TWO

Sat 14th: Utter! Music special - Morris Quinlan Experience, special guests TBA.

Sun 15th: Utter! Triumvirate - Niall Spooner-Harvey, James McKay, Richard Tyrone Jones.

Mon 16th: (2 HOUR SPECIAL, STARTS 6.30PM) Utter! Lutonists - John Hegley, plus other Luton-based or Lute-playing poets - Tim Clare, Gareth Lewis, Lee Nelson, Luton’s very own Klod Magazine, Danni Antagonist and Simon Munnery (well he lives near Bedford, which he describes as ‘Greater Luton’).

Tues 17th: Utter! UEA - Megan Bradbury, Ross Sutherland, Molly Naylor, Hannah Eiseman-Renyard

Weds 18th: Yo! Utter! Raps - Baba Brinkman, Dead Poets, Chemical Poets, Dean Atta & the Roundhouse poetry collective

Thurs 19th: Utter! Jocks v Geordies - Kate Fox, Simma & Scott Tyrrell vs. Robin Cairns & Anita Govan

Fri 20th: Utter! Covers - James McKay as Poe, RTJ as Ted & Sylvia’s Puppet Roadshow, Kate Fox does Betjeman, Danni Antagonist

WEEK THREE

Sat 21st: Utter! Virgins - Martin Figura, Helen Ivory, Hannah Walker, John Osborne

( http://vimeo.com/12230936 )

Sun 22nd: Utter! Music special 2 - Paula Varjack & Marty, Hayden Cohen, Ant Smith, Project Adorno

Mon 23rd (NB 2 HOUR SPECIAL, STARTS 6.30PM) Utter! SALT - Rob A. Mackenzie hosts SALT publishing’s finest poets - Simon Barraclough, Julia Bird, Jasmine Donahaye, Andrew Philip, Isobel Dixon

Tues 24th: Utter! Storytelling - George Lewkowicz, Stephen Barnaby, guest host Rachel Rose Reid

Weds 25th: Utter! Invaders - Sassenach poets who’ve successfully colonised Scotland. Kevin Cadwallender, Rapunzel Wizard, more TBA

Thurs 26th: Utter! the Brave - Scots poetic fightback! Andrew Ferguson, Christie Williamson, others TBC

Fri 27th: Utter!’s Got talent - Talent contest with special guests including Laura Hainey, last year’s winner. Winner wins a paid gig in London, a spot in the finale tomorrow and a place in the London Paid Gig final with a chance to win £100+ (email richardtyronejones@gmail.com to reserve your place, don’t be late)

Sat 28th: Utter! Finale - Best of the Fest, including Ross Sutherland, Tim Turnbull, Rosie Wilby doing spoken word and the winner of Utter!’s Got Talent 2010.

Programmed by ‘ringmaster of spoken word’ (ThreeWeeks) Richard Tyrone Jones and hosted by him, James McKay, Niall Spooner-Harvey, Tom Phillips, Rachel Rose Reid and special guests.

All shows are free entry, but we will be rattling a bucket at the end and selling books and CDs to try and make back some of our estimated £2000+ costs.

Watch this space for more lineup announcements!

Short link: bit.ly/uttered10
www.utterspokenword.com
www.freefringe.org.uk