Friday 18th June
@ The Storey Auditorium

Meeting House Lane, Lancaster

The Line-up:

VIDEO OF THE EVENT

Tony Walsh - Poetry
A confident performer with a direct, accessible style, Tony's live set takes audiences on a rock and rollercoaster ride from comedy to tragedy, from the deadly serious to the seriously deadly.

Whilst known to some for his humorous or multiple slam-winning pieces, Tony regularly moves audience members to tears with his insightful and raw urban folk tales informed by his own working class, Anglo-Irish upbringing and by twenty years spent working with some of the most deprived inner city communities in the UK.

 

Mollie Baxter - Performance
Mollie Baxter will be performing a short story by Garstang writer Norman Hadley adapted for the stage by Blackpool playwright David Riley.
 
Alice is a lowly research assistant who spends her days firing laser beams into tiny silicaceous crystals. It's tedious work but, one bleary Monday morning, she sees an anomalous result that blows apart her understanding of time; the way the past resonates through the present. With her impossibly glamorous supervisor, Alice comes to see the world in a grain of sand.


Joy Ahmed - Poetry
'I used to teach dyslexics but found that as their reading and spelling improved mine deteriorated. So I went off to China to teach English for four years. At the end of that time the students were speaking perfect English and I was speaking velly badry.'
 
'My hobbies are reading, writing, and getting married, only 3 times so far!'
 
'I hope I am not going to bore the pants off everyone but I am going to be nostalgic about my childhood in the Black Country.'

 

 

And Music:

 


 Mihkel Hassan & James Edgar

Poetry & Music
Mihkel and James met last year when they became housemates Mihkel: 'I heard James strumming his guitar in the living room, I walked in and started rapping lyrics over the songs he was playing. Both impressed with each others styles, we just started jammin together on a regular basis and thought we should start looking for slots for local gigs.'

Mihkel was born and Bred in Salford. 'I started performing in Lancaster, making my debut at the Spotlight in november 2007 at the open mic slam. Thinking a few beers would ease my nerves, I ended up forgetting my lines at the end of the peice! I've headlined at Manchesters Pegada, and recently done open mics in London. I was suprised with the amount of people that have come up to me and shown me a lot of appreciation and positive feedback, was a real buzz.'

James: 'I have been playin guitar for 5 years, inspired by different genres. I supported tinchy stryder in 2009 in Blackpool. Ive played in a number of bands, with friends and solo, and now with Mihkel. I appreciate his style and I think our styles compliments each others.'

Their collaboration has resulted in an impressive mix of acoustic hip hop & spoken word.



 

New Potato Scene
The New Potato Scene, an independent teenage band comprise of George Webster, Ben Gladwin, Chris Everett, and Adam Robey. They specialise in a mixture of covers and their own interesting, quirky pop songs.
 

Compere - Simon Baker