The Man Who Loved Beer

Contact: vaudevillainous@yahoo.co.uk

Part spoken word performance, part drunken monologue - 'The Man Who Loved Beer' dissects a life experienced through the haze of casual alcoholism with all the riotous nights out, sexual misadventures and profuse vomiting that entails. Oh and the fear, don't forget the fear.

Kevin P. Gilday is the performer behind last year's critically acclaimed 'Notes From A Quarter-Life Crisis' which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe before being recorded for a radio special and toured nationally.
He is the winner of the StAnza Digital Slam, the Creative Stirling Slam and a two time Scottish National Slam finalist. Kevin is also the presenter of Rhyming Optional, the curator of Interior/Exterior and has performed all over the country including the Wickerman and Glastonbury festivals.

'This was something special. There is a quiet, unusual talent burgeoning here...go and witness it for yourself'
- Ed Fringe Review

'A crafted quality worthy of great appreciation...the audience were absolutely held in the story throughout'
- Glasgow Guardian

'His words struck home...it spoke to me in a manner no poetry had'
- Zymbol Magazine


There's also support from three wonderful guests in the form of -

GEORGE SHARPE

George Sharpe is singer/songwriter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. One half of the folk duo Paperbacks, George has a dynamic voice that is at once gravelly and delicate. Finger-picking melodies and unique covers abound.


ELAINE CUSACK

Elaine Cusack has been writing and performing poetry for 30 years. Her work has appeared on local and national TV and in various pamphlets and anthologies including I Wouldn’t Thank You For a Valentine (Viking 1992) and Pieces from Eight (Iron, 2013).
Elaine lives in Whitley Bay and runs Poetry with Friends, poetry appreciation sessions with a difference at the coast for Happy Planet Creative Arts CIC. She collaborates with artist, Anne Proctor on handmade books. Their latest publication is 'Souvenir of Tynemouth'.


VINNY McHUGH

Vinny McHugh is a poet bred in the west end who learned his craft in Cornwall where he co-founded an artistic collective and ran an open mic night for two years. He walked from Jarrow to London with a group of mums from darlington to protest against NHS cuts. He is a firm proponent of ‘find what you love and let it kill you on half your lunch break and a Sunday’


Doors open at 7.30pm and the show starts at 8pm

£5 entry on the door.

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Price: £5.00

Time: 7.30pm