Brighton Festival Fringe 2nd May 2010…

It’s that time of year again when Brighton goes festival mad and we’re delighted to be taking part. Our show will be at the usual haunt – Upstairs at Three and Ten. Here’s all the details…

PEANUT ALBINOS: The Red Light Stagger

Sunday 2nd May

Upstairs at Three and Ten

10 Steine Street

BN2 1TE

Fringe Venue: 310

The masters of Folk ‘n’ Roll return to the Three and Ten with a new show and a new line-up. Brace yourself for an evening of twisted beauty…

‘…a group designed for some future Perfect Storm: Sub-Prime, Credit Crunch, Stock Market crash… Put it this way, if they succeed, it probably means the rest of us are in the s**t.’

Entrance Fee: £7.50/£5

Tickets available from:

www.upstairsatthreeandten.co.uk

Box Office: 07800 983 290

Songs You Never Heard: ‘Blossoms Fall’

Thought I heard every word that you said
All the rock, salt and nails turning round in my head
Have seen me defeated at last
My colonial spirit is laying down, dead

And my feet stand asleep on the floor
Put my best one forward just to get through this door
I’ve come six thousand miles through the past
And am I worthless or am I worth more?

The blossom falls now in the evening breeze
It never knows just how many it’s pleased
Try to protect it from all this disease
See how it slips through my fingers with ease

Now there’s desert right here in my hand
A badwater basin as dry as the sands
One flower to take in the air
And I’m dry on my knees and here’s my sinner’s prayer

The blossom falls now in the evening breeze
It never knows just how many it’s pleased
Try to protect it from all this disease
See how it slips through my fingers with ease

The tighter the grasp
The quicker the kill
Fingers curl around
Just hoping that it’s real
And under the same sky
But there not as dry
There’s aspersions cast along the party line

Now there’s no verse that you could quote me
That I could belong to, believe in or need
I step out of your heaven-less stare
And the blossom falls
And there’s no-one to care
And you’re nothing, dear; you’re just lost in the air

© Simon Olivier 2007.
See more like this...and other discussion-type stuff on my page: www.scriptsimon.wordpress.com

Does My Avatar Look Big In This? Cameron, Snyder and the March of the ™s.

So James Cameron’s mighty BlueManEpic™ swathes its way through all the competition, treating horror, comedy and drama with equally slaughterous disdain, like some villain from a Tolkien trilogy, somnambulating a path towards becoming Most Successful Movie Of All Time™, where, wielding the divine power of the TMs claimed after the fall of the King Of Pop™, Avatar will rule the world for all eternity and thus will begin an age where stuff is blue. Forever. And good luck to it, I guess. If only it were better…

Read the rest at www.scriptsimon.wordpress.com

Thanks for looking….

Show @The Plum Tree 07/11/09

Hello one and all…

OK. We’ve been lured out of hibernation. The poet E. Amato begged, pleaded, offered all kinds of unmentionable favours, (she even, I might add, promised to stay in the room when we’re on!) to play at her new acoustic night, ‘Super-Zesty Acoustic Sessions‘. How could we refuse?

The line up looks great – a fine mix of music and spoken word. You’ll be pleased to hear that we’ll not be the ones speaking words.

Here’s all the info:

Super-Zesty Acoustic Sessions:

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Time: 8:00pm – 11:55pm

Location: THE PLUM TREE

Street: 54 Farringdon Street EC4A 4BD

City/Town: London, United Kingdom

An eclectic mix of spoken word and music at the amazing underground den of The Plum Tree! Come out, be entertained, hang out and if you like, drink…

FEATURING:

GIDEON CONN

myspace.com/gideonconn

Spectacular and spectacled Gideon Conn entertains like no one else. Singer, songwriter and artist, Gideon is a rare pleasure.

PEANUT ALBINOS

www.peanutalbinos.com

These guys have a very specific magic they will practise on you. It’s really a treat to get them to come play.

TSHAKA MENELIK IMHOTEP CAMPBELL

http://naturalkink.com

NY – LA-JAMAICA -LNDN Tshaka leaves no emotion unturned in his quest to craft words into mind and spirit opening vessels.

SOPHIA BLACKWELL

myspace.com/sophiablackwell

Wry, insightful, delightful and honest, Sophia is both a poet’s poet and an audience’s spoken word artist.

AND MORE TO COME!!!!!

 

Hosted/MC’D/Compered by E. Amato

myspace.com/eamato

£3 at door

8pm!

The Plum Tree is located under the Holborn Viaduct. It is a beautiful venue where the drinks are CHEAP and the company will be GREAT! ; )

 

Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ re-released on DVD…

The Cosmos is all that is, ever was, or ever will be… We are, all of us, made of star-stuff.

You cannot imagine the squeaky sound of delight that escaped from my being when I discovered that ‘Cosmos‘ had been re-released on DVD. No longer do I have to watch the first episode over and over on Google Video. Now I have no less than 13 hours of Sagan!

I cannot recommend this box set enough. Science at school was dull. They should have sat us down with some fizzy pop and uncle Carl. Admittedly, as teenagers we would have mocked the dated graphics and music, his voice, his corduroy suits but, dammit, we would have learnt something. His enthusiasm is infectious.

For anyone not familiar with Carl Sagan (and I wasn’t up until a year ago) here’s something to whet your appetite:

Whiskey Mick, Jonny Berliner and Alex McKay @Proud…

It’s not often I go to London for anything other than to play a gig, so it was jolly strange to find myself in the cavernous Proud Gallery for the ‘Monday Night Youth Club‘ – a relatively new venture for Radha (Folkadot) and co.

After setting my shirt on fire (!) I settled down in one of the stables to listen to Whiskey Mick blast through some folk tunes with Jonny Berliner on guitar and Andy McKay on banjo. Completely unrehearsed, it was the lovely warm sound of ‘winging it’! Thanks guys.

The complete absence of amplification made it all the more special. It drew you in. Admittedly, I couldn’t hear a word Mick was singing but that’s hardly the point. I couldn’t hear a bloody thing in ‘The Big Gig Room’ either… and that’s with thousands of pounds worth of PA.

Anyone for a power cut?

JDS

Peanut Albinos on Phonovault…

We’re pleased to announce that ‘Falling From The Saddle of a High Horse’ is now available from Phonovault.

This from their website:

‘The PhonoVault is an online bazaar of the bizarre, a veritable treasure trove of all things unusual, intriguing, dark, and downright absurd in the world of music. A workshop of weird and wonderful delights thriving deep in the shadow of everything modernist and mainstream, and a sanctuary for those with a nostalgia for an age that never was, but should have been.

The PhonoVault is a specialist online music retailer with a vaudevillian twist. Our main aim is to help you, our fellow connoisseurs of the curious and countercultural, to find the music you desperately need in your lives, whilst removing the hassle of trawling through the catalogues of larger, less specialised music stores. If you share our admirably skewed worldview, we want to share a whole miscellany of musical gems with you. The central ethos of the PhonoVault is simple; to gather together music that harks back to a golden era, music that entices, excites and intrigues those looking for an antidote to slick, modern, mainstream fare.

The store mines deep into a rich and diverse seam of genres and styles, including Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gypsy/klezmer music, Victoriana, folk, blues, burlesque, dark cabaret, gothic Americana, darkwave, Neo-Vaudeville, death country, and all sorts of sounds from the more eccentric side of life. Within the vault you will find albums to purchase on CD or download. Also, if you register with the PhonoVault, you will receive a free song download every week with our regular newsletter, helping you discover even more fantastic new music.’

So far our dealings with them have been great so do consider buying from them. Although the prices are slightly higher than say, CD Baby or iTunes, Phonovault offer a much better deal to the artists. Good luck to them!

PA