Spotlight Club

Open Mic Event

Contact: Ron Baker 01524 381642 or spotlightclub@btinternet.com

Mixed event: poetry, music, comedy, prose; guests and open mic (very limited so book in advance).

This Month’s Writing Line-up:
Bernard Alvarez
1950's Manchester short pants-Munich Air Crash-Elvis 'One Night With You' 1960's Saxaphones-Soul Bands: Vino - Blues - Muddy - Howlin Wolf - Hooker - Jimi live@Worthing Pier 1970's Marriage and Punk all our belongings in a transit van up the M1 & £25 between us and the skids 1980's Structural Damage played Alto: Memories going out to play Miners benefit the night of the Battle of Orgreave, a benefit for the Ethiopian drought 1 year before Live Aid & caused a riot at a comprehensive school in Bradford before breakfast 1990's lived in a glacial valley and raised Goats, Great Danes wrote poems celebrating nature and vignettes of stupidity and cruelty Work with anxiety, depression and despair 2005 moved to Lancaster after living in Todmorden for 25years & discovered Spotlight, Reason 3, Audacity and Tai Chi - Poems on the night: 'Dream Time' Freudian Dream set in a Beech wood on the Todmorden Edge, crows roosting, reclamation of a split screen VW van. My first 'Ballad' to a deceased Co Worker who died suddenly last September. 'Poetry In Motion' a quickie to the mysteries of a May Moon & finally 'Red Rooster' a tale of hatred, retribution and Karma.

Edward Calais
was born in Trinidad but has lived in England since the age of seven. He has worked in training and personal development with a philosophical twist since leaving university and has been writing poetry for the past three years - culminating in the recent volume 'From A Slow Carriage' pub: www.roadworkspublishing.com Now living in Lancaster, he is chair of Word Market, an organisation which nurtures and supports both writers and readers in Cumbria.

James Knight
Originally from Blackpool, I have spent time in Manchester, and am currently settled in Lancaster. Both Blackpool and Manchester have had massive influences on my poetry - from the arcade sleaziness of Blackpool's promenade to the crumbling back streets of Manchester's Northern Quarter. Currently a third year student on Lancaster University's Creative Writing degree my work can be listened to at www.myspace.com/animalwrites and read in the 'Poet's Showcase' section at www.writeoutloud.net

Kate Davis
An outlandish humourist Kate says 'basically I'm a very boring middle-aged woman with a tendency to whinge. I am in fact a hugely talented artist with a massive portfolio of published and performed work. Beside my artistic skills I'm a fantastic cook, a wonderful mother and I'm kind to old people and animals especially the poorly ones and I'm a good driver and I never forget birthdays or grumble about anything at all!'

And Music:
Tongue Tide are a Barrow based female duo who have enchanted audiences with their inimitable style of rich harmonies, captivating lyrics and emotive delivery. Their eclectic set is a mixture of stirring original material interwoven with obscure, tongue in cheek a cappella songs from the likes of Tom Lehrer and Artisan. -'dark, delicious and delirious'
http://www.myspace.com/tonguetideuk

Balloondogs fronted by Mollie Baxter who has been performing her lyric-driven folk-rock songs thrown somewhere between P.J. Harvey and Mazzy Star for many years, putting out three EPs. Now, at last, the songs have been reborn in glorious technicolour with the help of Balloondogs: Rob Daniels (Scout) drums and vocals; Barry Rowlingson, (Monkey Bucket) Bass; and Daniel Wilson, guitar and vocals. Be ready for old favourites with new life.
http://www.myspace.com/molliebaxter

Compered by John Freeman

Price: £3.00 / £2.00

Time: 8.30