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Eleanor Rees, 28th Jan, Leaf Café Liverpool
January 28, 2016 / 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
THE FIRST AND LAST
by Triassic Tusk, The Skinny Magazine and Neu! Reekie!
Thursday 28th January 2016
LEAF on Bold Street, Liverpool
20:00 – Midnight
Tickets/info:
STARRING
PETE WYLIE of THE MIGHTY WAH!
Part time rock star – full time legend. Pete is a musician/composer best known as the leader of the band The Mighty Wah! His string of massive hits include The Story Of The Blues, Come Back, Sinful, 7 Minutes to Midnight and the LFC anthem Heart As Big As Liverpool, and has written scores for Hurricane Films, Alex Cox and Radio 4.
http://www.pbjmgt.co.uk/artist/pete-wylie
HOLLIE MCNISH
Poetry’s wonder women, Hollie is a UK poet and spoken word artist who straddles the boundaries between the literary, poetic and pop scenes; with millions of YouTube hits, she sells out venues all over the UK and was the first poet to record an album at Abbey Road Studios.
EUGENE KELLY of THE VASELINES
singer-songwriter, head honcho and founding member of internationally celebrated band The Vaselines; with Nirvana covering their songs Kurt Cobain remarked of the band ‘my favourite songwriters in the whole world’.
See: http://www.thevaselines.co.uk
ELEANOR REES:
author of ‘Andraste’s Hair’ (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, ‘Eliza and the Bear’ (Salt, 2009) and ‘Blood Child’ (Pavilion/LUP, 2015). Eleanor has worked extensively as a local poet in the community and is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University.
See: http://www.eleanorrees.info
AND, you’ll hear words and music from the team:
- MICHAEL PEDERSEN: award-winning poet, playwright and Neu! Reekie! co-founder.
- KEVIN WILLIAMSON: poet, publisher, political live wire / Neu! Reekie! co-founder.
- LOMOND CAMPBELL: singer-songwriter and frontman of BAFTA winning band / arts collective FOUND.
- WHISKY STEPHEN: DJ, pusher of whisky, world-renowned record collector, Triassic Tusk chieftain.
PLUS SURPRISE GUESTS – bobby-dazzlers at that.
Tickets: http://firstandlast.bpt.me
(early bird £5 – then £7 on the door)
Curated and presented by:
The Skinny
The Skinny magazine has been covering exciting happenings and emerging talent on the Northwest cultural scene since April 2013. Priding itself on providing independent cultural journalism across Liverpool and Manchester, The Skinny surveys everything from theatre to film to visual arts in print every month and online at theskinny.co.uk. Here at Skinny HQ we love the innovative and multidisciplinary and as such we’re thrilled to be partnering this ace night of music and spoken word, drawing from Liverpool, Scotland and beyond.
Neu! Reekie!
About to turn five, Neu! Reekie! is an award winning publishing house, micro label and events curator that have exhibited their poetry, animation and music showcases all across Scotland and beyond (US, Japan, Africa). Working with Creative Scotland and British Council they create bespoke shows for National Galleries, International Films Festivals and Music Festivals, involving some of the UK’s top names in art, music and culture. See: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/neu-reekie-a-festival-sprawling-across-scotland-1-3821693#axzz3qXAZcpHy
Triassic Tusk:
Triassic Tusk is a new record label brought to you by The FOUND Collective and launching at this very event.
Triassic Tusk will compile and re-issue rare records from FOUND’s vinyl collection.
Triassic Tusk will release music by FOUND Collective members.
Triassic Tusk will release music by our favourite artists.
The name Triassic Tusk is taken from a line in a poem we love.
https://www.dustandgrooves.com/stephen-marshall-edinburgh-scotland/
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/triassictusk23
Tickets: http://firstandlast.bpt.me
