On Thursday 11th June, from 6pm to 10pm, Litro Live! will put on its biggest live event yet, in partnership with St. Pancras International Station and the Betjeman Arms, bringing its inventive approach for an edgy and arty evening of music and the spoken word.

The event will be held at the Betjeman Arms on the Rendevous level (upper concourse) with views of Eurostar trains heading to Europe on High Speed 1, the UK’s first high speed railway line, making it the perfect setting for audience members to get into the mood for their own SUMMER travels. Artists confirmed so far include travel authors Geoff Dyer, Alistair Boyd, Hugo Williams, (TLS travel writer, Queen’s Gold medal winner for poetry and editor of Betjeman for Faber’s ‘Poets on poets’ series) and Jake Arnott (reading from his travel-infested new title ‘The Devil’s Paintbrush). Musicians will include The Mayfly Trio, Kate Daisy Grant. The electric performances will be followed by a live DJ set by DJ Jamie Byng in the Betjeman Arms on the station concourse.

“Litro Live! at St Pancras International will coincide with the travel-themed June edition of Litro magazine, the creative Londoner’s alternative to disposable free papers, which takes 100,000 readers on a monthly adventure of its own, into the worlds and stories of authors such as Irvine Welsh, Ross Sutherland and Benjamin Zephaniah.” Eric Akoto Publisher Litro Magazine.

Maureen Bannerman, Retail and Marketing Director at St. Pancras International said: “ We are pleased to be working with Litro on this event. The written and spoken word is particularly important to us, as of course it was the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, who saved this Victorian masterpiece from demolition in the 1960s”