Spotlight Club
This event on 20th March 2009 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
One of the Northwest's longest standing events: poetry, prose, music, comedy; guests and open mic (book in advance).
Tonight
Simon Baker - Prose
Described as a real nowhere man, the fool on the hill and the eggman, Simon Baker
was born in a Norwegian wood back in the USSR. With a ticket to ride down the long and
winding penny lane, he came in through the bathroom window. He said something wrong,
now he longs for yesterday but will get by with a little help from his octopus's garden.
He wants to be a paperback writer. Until then happiness is a warm, yes it is, bum.
He will be reading a nasty story about a very unpleasant man and recommends that
the easily offended pop down to the bar for ten minutes.
Kim Moore - Poetry
Kim has recently won fourth prize in the Kent and Sussex Poetry Competition judged by
Penelope Shuttle, and also got Highly Commended in the Mirehouse Poetry Prize, and just had some work accepted in the New Writer as well. She is in her first year of an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and works as a full time peripatetic brass teacher for Cumbria Music Service. 'I like to write poems about people/relationships and I've been writing for about two years.'
Pamela Pottinger - Prose
'I live in Cumbria with my husband and three children - a major project as they
have all been home-educated - my writing is done mainly for pleasure but I do have some stuff out there... various anthologies and occasional bits on radio ' What I will be reading is not set in concrete yet, probably 'A Funeral Story' which is about smiling through the grief. Also I have a few pieces of nano fiction up my sleeve if needs be - these are basically complete stories in 100 words...
Pascal Desmond - Prose
Oh dear. Pascal the Rascal has advised us that he will be reading a chapter from his
autobiography. We don't know whether this is real or imaginary (nor are we sure whether Pascal knows)... Has Pascal's autobiography any importance or merit? Would Boswell write better or would Boswell not bother?
Would Ellman worse witter or would Ellman write wittier? Would the historian Bullock call it as it is?
Who knows. You'll find out on the night. As this is a new and frightening departure
for Spotlight, we will have the St John's Ambulance on standby with supplies of ether and smelling salts.
Plus Music:
Dan Haywood
Live and in person, the Dan Haywood New Hawks ensemble is a phosphorescing
beast of a band with lightning sheeting down its back. The DHNH act has opened for notables including The Handsome Family, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Baby Dee, Radar Bros. and shared
bills with many great artists too commercially-unsuccessful to mention.
Compere: John Freeman
Price: £3.00 / £2.00
Time: 8.30
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