Friday 16th July

@ The Storey Auditorium

Meeting House Lane, Lancaster

 

The Line-up:

Kim Moore - Poetry 

  Kim was a runner up in
 the Mslexia 2009 Poetry
 Competition and has had
 work accepted in Poetry
 Review, The Frogmore
 Papers, Iota and Staple.
 She is a member of 'A
 Poem and A Pint' who
 organise poetry readings
 in Barrow and writes,
 usually in the car, in
 between teaching at
 different schools, which
 has the added effect of
                                                        making her value the
                                                        time she gets to write. 



Gary Smillie - Poetry


Liverpool poet Gary 
Smillie, who also dabbles 
in short stories, last 
appeared at Spotlight in 
April 2008 and returns this 
month with a selection of 
recent poetry loosley linked 
by themes of love 
and travel. 

 


Ron Baker - Poetry
  Stepping out from
  behind the sound
  desk to make a
  rare appearance in
  front of the mic,
  Spotlight co-founder
  Ron Baker will be
  reading from his
  current work in
  progress - a
  collection of poems
  based on his early
  childhood.

'I'm approaching sixty and began thinking about that old adage 'Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man'.

I began to write about significant events in my early life - from birth until I was seven, growing up in 1950's rural Lincolnshire and moving to dingy urban backstreets. Those experiences seemed to add up - I've always loved the countryside and hated towns and feel it is certainly the case that what happens to us in early life has a huge bearing on the kind of people we become.'



Iain Colley - 'Comic Verse' 
Iain Colley makes a welcome return to the  Spotlight. Iain has been contributing 
stories, poems and articles to magazines  and newspapers for many years and has a  string of competition successes to his  name  - including winning the prestigious  London Review of Books 'Poet of The Year'  competition in 2002. An accomplished  performer of his work Iain will be  performing a selection of new comic verse.


Reginald Winters - Comedy

Reginald Winters 'Here to warm up your regular winters', they said he'd be 'f****d in summer', but no he's still here and looks like going nowhere! Unfortunately for some. Since performing his first ever slot, which was indeed an open mic spot with Spotlight, he has gone on to perform longer sets at Spotlight, Totally Wired, Blue Peter Badge Winners Get In Free, Lancaster Barnbox at the Dukes, The Plough Festival and the rumours are, he'll be performing at Kendal Calling. Reginald is currently enjoying the message his (spoof) UFO documentary is sending around the globe, receiving over 6,000 views on youtube. Some artists from Lancaster took part in the documentary, as did Ron and Sarah of Spotlight! 

Who knows what Reginald might do at the next event! The unpredictable motor mouth will no doubt be of some discomfort for the more prudish audience member. Who knows he might even get abducted by aliens and miss the event entirely!


  And Music:

 
The Moll Baxter Band - Music
Voted 'Best Live Act' by the Lunecy Review back in the New Year, the Moll Baxter Band tells tales about skeletons and highwaymen, nanny-goats and harridans, whisky wine and song. Folk-blues, Americana and a few bubbles of pop.


www.molliebaxter.com - hub website

www.myspace.com/mollbaxter

 

  

This month's Compere
John Freeman