Apples & Snakes in Soho - John Hegley

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For nearly three decades, John Hegley has been bewildering the nation with poems about dogs, glasses, vegetables, and dogs that are vegetables. The accolade of ‘national treasure’ would undoubtedly bring a blush to his boyish cheek, but would be well-deserved nonetheless. If you like poems that do things you’re not expecting, and songs accompanied by frenzied mandolin mayhem, then tonight’s your lucky night. Heglify yourself.

Sharing the bill is the equally unusual Suzanne Andrade, who recently won an Edinburgh Fringe First award with her cabaret ensemble 1927, and hasn’t looked back since. A wide-eyed amalgam of Grenfellesque vocals and slightly worrying animation, Suzanne is the ‘something nasty’ that lurks in all our woodsheds. But sweet with it.

El Crisis is a different kettle of fish altogether: a one-man boom-box of dancehall rhythms and cosmic incantations (sometimes to his car, sometimes to his Creator), he’s a master of the needs-no-mic school of poetry, and has worked with everyone from Roots Manuva to Estelle. Fasten your seatbelts for a fifth-gear ride to the spiritual plane.

And we guarantee that the whole will be even greater than the parts, so book early for this three-cornered poetical treat.


Brought to you by Apples & Snakes – establishing performance poetry as the fifth dimension

Entry: £8 / £6

Time: 8:00pm