Beg, steal or borrow a Troubadour ticket
London's Troubadour coffee house was THE place to be seen for the folksinger/songwriter of the 60s and early 70s. Where Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Tom Paxton, Joni Mitchell, Bert Jansch, Sandi Denni and other luminaries of the folk revival played, you can witness its modern equivalent, the live-poetry movement, which is alive, growing and giving a voice to a new generation (encouraged and supported by Write Out Loud).
We owe our title to the lyrics of Tom Paxton’s song, which goes on to say: Last night The Troubadour/Was so full they barred the door…
Could it be the same this Monday, February 6th, as at that august venue Oversteps Books presents readings from poets Ann Kelley, Christopher North, Ann Segrave, Graham High, Alwyn Marriage, Robert Stein, Joan McGavin and Michael Swan?
Get yourselves there to find out, and then let the rest of us know what we missed, by putting a review up on the gig guide (comments box visible if you are signed-in). Pretty please.
Harry O'Neill
Mon 6th Feb 2012 16:46
THIS BRINGS BACK A MEMORY,
Back in the early seventies I used to go (during trade union visits to London) to the Poetry Society place in Earls Cout square. One night A tall apparition dressed in one green woollen-legged tight and one red woollen-legged tight, and wearing a tall, floopy, guy Fawks style hat, `kidnapped me and took me to the Troubador. Does any one know who she was? (I remember there was a sort of stone `niche` from which I was told the poets used to read.