bastardslam, shut up and speak, new word order and making tracks...

so as much as i almost fell into a park vortex at gorli, i dragged my ass back to the flat to get out this blog. i woke up this morning amazed at feeling fresh, considering the ammount of wine i knocked back last night at comedy in sin. its a night you should seriously check out if you havn't already. its run by the boys of the comedy olympics. as much as i love my spoken word, it was great to be at an english language event that had nothing to do with poetry for a change. and everyone was hilarious. paula salamone's brooklyn character cracked me up, ray melara was brilliant, and the thing that really blew my mind about jacinta, is how she is so skilled at her craft, that she make me laugh so hard even with material i'm familiar with. its great to have such talented friends.

but anywaysss, as there is no rest for the wicked, my night off from performing was just a warm up for the busy night i have ahead tomorrow. First i'll be cycling down to wirrwarr at seven to catch ShUt up and Speak, a bilingual spoken word event of scintillating female poets. if i'm lucky i may have time to get on the open mic at 8, but then i have to jump back on the bike right after, to get to festaal xberg for the bastardslam. jacinta is the reigning title holder so i'm really keen to hear what she's got in store, and there's a feature poet called Blair, who i've heard great things about, hailing to that birthplace of techno, detroit. i have no idea what i'm performing yet, but with any luck i'll figure it out before my name is called.

then ich machen eine pause from the stage. just a teeny kleine one. as next thursday i'm hosting new word order. and for all my performing friends whether you be musicans, comics, poets, storytellers or just fancy having five minutes to get up and talk about something. get down to mano cafe' on the corner of skalitzer str and lausitzer str by 8 and get your name on the list. but beware, where your name goes down on the list may or may not determine when i call you up to perform. :-)

only other thing i should add is that i'm cracking on on the music front. there are two new tracks on the player, eye contract and commodity, and if you want to hear more of the skills of producers domenica and jonas mccloud. check them out in my top friends. and there is more to come. clouds and i have an ep in the making after working very hard for the last months. that evil genius of electric guitar maurice
(from band ena wild) is going to be joining me more often to lend some atmospheric chords to my verse. and its starting to look like more of my gigs are going to at least feature backing tracks, if not live musicians, or when i'm very lucky a full band. kind of like this one...