Spotlight Club
This event on 15th December 2006 has past.
This event series is no longer running. It last took place on 15th October 2021.
Open Mic Event
Contact: Ron Baker 01524 381642 or spotlightclub@btinternet.com
Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to
us... Yes, exactly 11 years to the day Spotlight celebrates its birthday on Friday December 15th and continues to showcase the best of the region's writing and music.
Last month saw a packed house for the Open Mic Slam as 19 performers from as far afield as Halifax, Bolton and
Barrow took on challengers from Lancaster, Morecambe and Galgate. £50 1st place went to Lancaster's Nygel Harrot while Bolton's Dave Morgan
and Julian Jordan took 2nd & 3rd. Well done!
This month Compered by Tim Stevens
With
Paul Emmet - Made his Spotlight debut at last month’s open mic Slam. ‘I've lived in lancaster for four or so years, currently doing an MA in creative writing at the Uni. and I'm 21, until just after xmas. Mostly write darker poetry but also a few illuminating and uplifting pieces from unexpected viewpoints. Grew up in a wee town called Accrington and that damn milk advert from the 80s has haunted me all my life.’
Sarah Fiske - Apart from being one half of the team that has run Spotlight for the past 11 years Sarah is an ex Soho waitress, pig-farmer and
literacy researcher who has spent
the last ten years as a writer and
creative writing tutor. She also
devises and acts with Chrysalis
Forum Theatre Company. She’ll
be reading a new darkly comic
Sarah Fiske story ‘The Silence Of Fish’ in which a bookseller’s daughter
revisits her mother’s death in a Cumbrian garden.
Peter Brunton says he's a struggling writer from the tiny village of
Bassingbourn, somewhere south of
Cambridge. He is currently living in
Lancaster, studying English Literature
and Creative Writing at the Uni.. He can usually be found either hanging out
with the roleplaying society, or in his
room listening to music and struggling
to write. He has long hair, because he's too much of a cheapskate to get a
haircut.’ Having appeared at the
Spotlight open mic and recent slam he
now makes it on to the paid to perform
bill. Struggle on poet, struggle on!
‘A Fabulous Opera’ is the debut novel of Lancaster writer
Basil Ransome-Davies, prizewinning poet and author of short fiction, critical writing and film monographs whose satirical verse and prose will be familiar to readers of the
Spectator and the New Statesman. Basil says he can ‘just see Morecambe Bay from an upstairs window.’ A novel of
deception, pursuit, murder and greed set in Roussillon. A white van man's mate gets hooked by a designingwoman, with dark consequences.
Joe Spence - Joe says ‘I started
playing guitar at the start of 2005 and then wrote some songs’.
You can check out just how good Joe’s songs are at: h
ttp://www.myspace.comjoespencemusic!
Price: £3.00 / £2.00
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