A Son of the Rock

It’s a busy season for Writers’ Bloc and a good time to get your spoken word fix. Here’s a heads-up for the next six weeks: charity, poetry, dirty punk, sad songs and twenty-two solid nights of free spoken word.

Thursday 16th July: Oxfam Bookfest @ the Jazz Bar, 8.30pm – 11.30pm

Some Bloc regulars — Andrew J, Gav, Stef and maybe even the elusive Hannu will appear with Ron Butlin and Jenny Lindsay as part of Oxfam’s national Bookfest. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/books/

Shortly thereafter:

Look out for “When The Sun Turns Green”, Jane McKie’s new collection published by Polygon. Celebrating the points at which the everyday intersects with magic, the poems explore ultrasounds and ley lines, wind farms and grandmothers, fighting hares and water monsters, sculptures and Sussex dialect. All in a day’s work for our Jane.

Saturday 18th July: Freak Power 72 — Hunter S. Thompson tribute night, Henry’s Cellar Bar, 11pm. 5 pounds/4 concessions.

Filthy garage punk rock’n’roll with Acid Fascists, The Brutes, The Fnords, Davey Sloan and some intoxicated writers of your acquaintance, reading from Hunter S. Thompson’s work to celebrate his 72nd birthday.

Saturday 8th – Saturday 29th August: Underword @ Fingers Piano Bar, 7.50pm-8.40pm, free entry.

Bloc’s own Gavin Inglis has assembled twenty-two different nights of spoken word for the Fringe this year, every single one free. Dip in for an extended session by some of your Bloc favourites, and discover new voices from Edinburgh and further afield. Come every night.
Full programme now up at: http://underword.co.uk/

25th August: Venus Carmichael @ tePOOKa

Is this the last ever performance for Andrew C. Ferguson’s tribute act to the troubled hippy chick Venus Carmichael? Step behind the Big Red Door and find out.