A small note for you - I stayed at this cottage last month to get away from it all and get a bit of writing done, and had the most wonderful and relaxing time ever - the village and coastline there are incredible and the house itself has been very beautifully renovated and decorated:
http://www.uniquescotland.com/anchorcottage/index.html
18 Mar 2009
11 Mar 2009
New Performance Dates and Events!
I have just uploaded some upcoming events onto my myspace page:
www.myspace.com/181381409
I shall endeavour to get them up the Rosy C website proper asap, but for now that will jolly well have to do.
Last Friday I performed in Bristol at a fundraising event run by Acoustic Night, the city's longest-running open mic organization and, indeed, the very place that I began to perform my own stuff. The other performers were absolutely incredible - I would highly recommend checking them all out if you know them not:
Music burst forth from 10 Ton Tongue, Jamie Harrison and Boy, and more poesie than you can shake a dead rat at came out of Peter Hunter and Byron Vincent.
And now I am going shopping for white clothing, for a cannibalistic and rather brilliantly bizarre-sounding art project I'm sitting for for Jake Spicer later on today. (www.jakespicerart.co.uk)
I will keep you posted...
www.myspace.com/181381409
I shall endeavour to get them up the Rosy C website proper asap, but for now that will jolly well have to do.
Last Friday I performed in Bristol at a fundraising event run by Acoustic Night, the city's longest-running open mic organization and, indeed, the very place that I began to perform my own stuff. The other performers were absolutely incredible - I would highly recommend checking them all out if you know them not:
Music burst forth from 10 Ton Tongue, Jamie Harrison and Boy, and more poesie than you can shake a dead rat at came out of Peter Hunter and Byron Vincent.
And now I am going shopping for white clothing, for a cannibalistic and rather brilliantly bizarre-sounding art project I'm sitting for for Jake Spicer later on today. (www.jakespicerart.co.uk)
I will keep you posted...
19 Jan 2009
News Update
I am a lazy blogger; I had my suspicions that this would turn out to be the case and it seems that, as ever, I am absolutely correct.
The good news is that I can give you my plans and whatnot all at once and it'll sound like so much more than it would in tiny sentences; you'll weep with excitement into that half can of cold beans and flaking candle stub.
Hammer and Tongue has exciting plans for 2009. We've got some great performers lined up this year; for more info on what has and will be going on, see:
http://www.thehussy.co.uk/rosy-carrick/01/
and also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/urbanundiscovered/hammer-and-tongue-komedia
In terms of the latter link, I'm not sure how useful it is to the local poetry scene to suggest that its renewed popularity has mostly to do with its relocation into another spoken word genre - see in particular:
"The hip-hop connection has been good news for the poets. 'Now that people have made the association with hip-hop, we're perceived to be a similar thing, ... [t]he 'p' factor doesn't exist any more, we've overcome that. Poetry is a cool thing in Brighton.'"
Shall we feel proud like George Kirrin, accepted at last by the cousins; after all, she CAN climb a tree as well as most boys and swim better than any of them. No one will ever know we're still poets; we just have to wear baggier clothes and cram stuff into a 4-bar.
In other news, my workshop programmes are expanding. This Spring I'll be starting up a second weekly KS1&2 group and also one for more elderly children, or, as they may prefer to be called, 'young adults'. I'll also be taking a couple of sessions as part of the Little Green Pig project in February and March. See www.littlegreenpig.org.uk for more info on what they do.
My next performance is on Feb 13th at Tight Lip in Brighton. I'll post up full details of this and other upcoming gigs in the near future, but for now I am off.
As off as gorgonzola.
The good news is that I can give you my plans and whatnot all at once and it'll sound like so much more than it would in tiny sentences; you'll weep with excitement into that half can of cold beans and flaking candle stub.
Hammer and Tongue has exciting plans for 2009. We've got some great performers lined up this year; for more info on what has and will be going on, see:
http://www.thehussy.co.uk/rosy-carrick/01/
and also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/urbanundiscovered/hammer-and-tongue-komedia
In terms of the latter link, I'm not sure how useful it is to the local poetry scene to suggest that its renewed popularity has mostly to do with its relocation into another spoken word genre - see in particular:
"The hip-hop connection has been good news for the poets. 'Now that people have made the association with hip-hop, we're perceived to be a similar thing, ... [t]he 'p' factor doesn't exist any more, we've overcome that. Poetry is a cool thing in Brighton.'"
Shall we feel proud like George Kirrin, accepted at last by the cousins; after all, she CAN climb a tree as well as most boys and swim better than any of them. No one will ever know we're still poets; we just have to wear baggier clothes and cram stuff into a 4-bar.
In other news, my workshop programmes are expanding. This Spring I'll be starting up a second weekly KS1&2 group and also one for more elderly children, or, as they may prefer to be called, 'young adults'. I'll also be taking a couple of sessions as part of the Little Green Pig project in February and March. See www.littlegreenpig.org.uk for more info on what they do.
My next performance is on Feb 13th at Tight Lip in Brighton. I'll post up full details of this and other upcoming gigs in the near future, but for now I am off.
As off as gorgonzola.
13 Nov 2008
New Brighton poetry & spoken word information website
If you are new to the Brighton spoken word scene, or just sick of disentangling the many dates, venues and contact info of everything that's going on here, you'll be veritably THRILLED to hear that I have just been made aware of a new and excellent on-line resource designed specifically to relieve you of such confusion.
www.brightonpoetry.co.uk covers all poetry and spoken word events in Brighton and Hove so if you want to check out what's happening, or add your own event or performer profile, go and take a peek.
www.brightonpoetry.co.uk covers all poetry and spoken word events in Brighton and Hove so if you want to check out what's happening, or add your own event or performer profile, go and take a peek.
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