Recent News
April 2012
Write Out Loud Sale is on Tues 17th April with the following fabulous guests:
Keisha Thompson
Unable to attend last month as originally planned, Keisha will be with us in April. A star of the Young Identity collective!
Richard Lancaster
Talented, young fella back in Manchester for a short time only.
John Darwin
Write Out Loud regular included in the collection ‘Misery Beings at Home’.
London’s amazing mud-wrestling-with-words night gets a Manchester brother!
Bang Said The Gun: Manchester starts Tues 26th April
Stand up poetry for those who don’t like poetry, especially the stuff about thwarted love and daffodils.
The Old Nags Head, Jacksons Row (off Deansgate), M2 5WD
Every Thursday from 26th April , 8.00pm
Entrance: £5 / £3 N.U.S.
If underpants, sex, gravy and Keith Moon giving the Queen Mother drumming lessons are more your thing, then this could be the verbal romp you’ve been waiting for.
Bang Said The Gun in London is considered one of the best poetry nights in the country and has recently been reaching over 4 million viewers on Channel 4’s Random Acts.
Five Manchester-based poets (Dominic Berry, Kieren King, Rod Tame, Dave Viney and Benny Jo Zahl), have come together to repeat this winning formula with Manchester’s first weekly poetry night. The night will celebrate the best in local and national poets (guests lined up include local boy Ben Mellor and Inua Ellams) as well as offering audience members the chance to compete for the coveted Golden Gun prize in the Top Banana Open Mic.
Click here to see the offical page.
March 2012
On Tues 27th March (next week), I am running an informal workshop as a bonus extra for anyone attending Write Out Loud Sale who is interested. The workshop will be on learning poetry for performance (why do it, techniques for learning, what to do when words fail you on stage). It will run between 6.45 and 7.30 (which is when most people arrive for the open mic and guest slots) and it will take place in the same space as the open mic etc. I have several people attending the workshop already but there is room for all so please let me know if you are interested.
Guesting at Short and Sweet event on Canal Street on Thur 22nd March!
I will be performing my ‘Is Rod Tame a True Gay?’ set and the VADA LGBT Community Theatre Company will be performing 2-minute plays. See the Gigs page for details.
Third guest confirmed for Write Out Loud Sale on Tues 27th March.
Martin Pryce
Very funny chap.
Two guests confirmed for Write Out Loud Sale on Tues 27th March.
Keisha Thompson
A star of the Young Identity collective.
Hannah Kate
Hannah Kate is a North Manchester-based poet, who writes verse on the usual subjects of relationships, social observation, owls and trams. She will be launching her latest poetry collection at Sale!
One more guest to be confirmed.
Jan / Feb 2012
The year started on a high. The set “Is Rod Tame a True Gay?” opened the Working Verse – Amateur Thematics night in front of over 100 people at The Lowry theatre.
“His set… is very funny, but it feels honest, heartfelt, self-deprecating and reflective…. Tame’s final poem, a love poem to his partner, is really beautiful and an uplifting end to the first half of the show.” – Laura Maley, The Public Reviews (Read the full review here)
Also, made it to the semi-final of the Bilston Love Slam.
“Rod Tame’s material was very strong in both rounds, and I suspect would have been amongst the strongest of the evening on the page.” – Gary Longden, Behind the arras (Read the full review here)
