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Salisbury Hotel, 1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, London N4 1JX
4.00 / 2.00 concs, plus FREE SWEETS and PRIZE DRAW
Tube: Turnpike Lane / Manor House.
Bus: 141, 29, 41, 67. Overland: Harringey Green Lanes.
Phone: 07912 539 098
Email: richardtyronejones@gmail.com
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Dear Utter fans,

To mark its return for 2008 in the middle of the most depressing
month of the year, Utter! presents ‘Utter! Misery’: a night of comedy
and poetry bemoaning the depressing nature of a world so miserable
it even has a separate kind of leukemia for cats. There should be
press in the Hornsey journal next week so be ready, through a veil of
tears, to applaud, to laugh, or just commit minor acts of self-harm
in appreciation of the work of:

JAMES KETTLE: He’s had shows on BBC Radios 4 and 7, regularly
headlines massive comedy clubs and writes for The Fix magazine. So we
don’t know why he’s still so miserable – but we’re very glad he is.
“desperately angry – but very good”
– Russell Howard.

PAUL BIRTILL: Plaudit-winning playwright with a Collected Poems and
new book ‘Do Not Disturb’. Depressive. Alcoholic. Smoker. Achingly
funny. Scouse.

ROBERT YATES: ¼ of the Vintage Poison collective. Miserable. Angry.
Sadist. Intense. Abstract. Also Scouse.

ANNELIESE KELLNER-JOYCE: October’s hugely powerful Ajar Mic winner
returns. Not entirely miserable. And not Scouse.

AJAR MIC CONTEST: You vote who gets a full slot next time, from the
quite miserable: HANGING GARDENER, DANGEROUS T, LUCY LEAGRAVE or
JAMES McKAY.

Your clinically depressed, attention-diabetic host for the evening is
Richard Tyrone Jones: ‘five star performance’ - Ham & High.

STOP PRESS! On the Saturday before Utter! misery, 26th Jan, Richard
will be running a writing workshop on miserable poems at the Utter!
writing group, Wood Green library, Wood Green High Road, 2nd Floor
Community Room, 11am-1pm. £4/2 or free if you’ve never been before.
All you need bring is pen, paper and a frown…

PS Richard Tyrone Jones will be reading at the launch of the second
issue of literary magazine ‘Trespass’, edited by Utter! writing group
member Sara Mae-Tuson, at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street,
Covent Garden on Thursday 24th Jan at 8pm. £4/3.

PPS 5-minute Ajar Mic slots for Utter Disability…? on Weds 27th Feb
are full, but slots for Utter Feminism! on Weds 26th March and Utter!
Boffins on April 30th, feat. Iain Sinclair, are still available.
Reply to perform: you should do at least one themed piece!

If you want to leave the list just let me know - I won’t be offended…

Cheers!
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Richard Tyrone Jones
Poet, host and Co-organiser of:
‘Utter!’ - Last Wed of the month, 8pm, Salisbury Pub N4 1JX, £4/2
Guest performer on the last Monday of the month at A Spoonful of
Poison, Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, Free

Blog and audio:
www.myspace.com/richardtyronejones

Video:
http://www.skycast.com/video/watch/1740175147299550352/

07912 539 098

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Gramaphone, 60-62 Commercial St, E1
FREE
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An acclaimed multimedia show fusing spoken word, flamenco dance,
classical Indian vocal, tabla, film & an electronic soundscape …
featuring special guests Nila Raja and Carolina Esteves

‘My personal highlight…a hypnotic recital…full of deep, darkly
burning images…Standing as still as a statue with a surprised but
steady smile, Eisha intoned words of wistfulness intercut with strong
intimations of sexuality. Her saga drew me and everybody present in
to the wide and rocky seascape of her emotions like an undertow,
while the chaos of sensation stormed slowly around her…this poetry
suite could easily have gone on twice as long without the electric
connection of concentration with the audience breaking… ‘ Grant
Bartley, Philsophy Now

‘the best performance of the night…all-involving, all-
consuming…every one of my senses was stimulated’ Suzanne Bull,
Authortrek

www.thegramaphone.co.uk
www.myspace.com/eishakarol
www.myspace.com/nilaraja
www.myspace.com/carolinaesteves

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