Other gigs

After a successful appearance with the Ord Pa Hjul team in Copenhagen, you can catch SHORTFUSE host NATHAN PENLINGTON performing a full set this Wednesday 8th October at The Rutland, 16 Lower Mall, Hammersmith.


Also on the bill is the infamous John Citizen and Aisle16’s Luke Wright.


Show starts at 8.30pm and entrance is FREE!
7.10.03 14:00


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 9th October

This Thursday The Poetry SocietyTM tries its annual attempt at convincing the general public that poetry is a good idea with its 10th National Poetry DayTM. This week at SHORTFUSE we celebrate the fact we have been putting on our unique weekly fusion of performance comedy, stand up poetry and music for THREE & A HALF YEARS.


This week we also bring you PART TWO of a very special two week series of
performances from ROB NEWMAN– TV star and acclaimed author
performs stand up and extracts from his latest book `The Fountain At The Centre Of The World'.

`breathtaking, heartbreakingly, goosepimpingly brilliant' – The Scotsman

`passionate and chaotically brilliant' - The Sunday Times

plus special guests:


LUKE WRIGHT - Founder member of performance poetry boyband AISLE16. Stand up poetry that turns the tabloids on a culture of hyper-real reality TV gameshows and post-modem celebrity. "I Refuse to perform with him anymore cos he makes me look like a cunt." - John Cooper Clarke


TOM SUTTON - throwing poetry to one side he embarks on a one man crusade to bring the customer services industry to it's knees. he has questioned the morality of wh smith, the hiring policy of macdonalds and given heinz a lesson in marketing. so far none have taken on tom's suggestions, but it is only a matter of time.


+ guest spot by SHORTFUSE dj DAVID BUSH ditching the decks for the
mic

+ guest DJ CHRIS SPIKES spinning mashed up tunes

plus back from performing in Copenhagen SHORTFUSE's ever svelt host: NATHAN PENLINGTON

Admission is £5 waged and £3 concessions, but as a special
offer we are offering TWO TICKETS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE with a print out of
this web entry.



The Camden Head, Camden Passage, Islington, London, N1. Nearest tube:
Angel.

Doors open at 8.30pm, show starts at 9pm.


See you there, but if you require any further information just CONTACT US
7.10.03 17:26


Website of the Week #5

Open Poetry Project


What the Web does best (apart from catering to everyone's fetish) is collate information from many sources, never assuming that one source is the most reliable and the most informative.


The Open Poetry Project is an open-to-anyone editable database of information about poetry available on the world wide web. The data contained within are culled from various sources and visitors may add or update information contained in the database at any time. So if you want to know about some aspect of poetry or information about a certain poet, or if you have an area of poetic knowledge that others should know about then check this site out.  
8.10.03 12:44


Website of the Week #6

CHERYL B


A website dedicated to one of NYC's finest spokenword performer and writer Cheryl B.


Cheryl regularly (but not as regularly as we'd like) comes over to London to perform her work. We have plans to feature Cheryl at SHORTFUSE again sometime soon, but until then check our the Writing Samples section, which along side a few of her Greatest Hits also includes interviews Cheryl has conducted with UK poets, and SHORTFUSE regulars, Tim Wells and Roddy Lumsden. Plus a comprehensive and varied links section that also includes err hem SHORTFUSE...   www.cherylb.com
14.10.03 12:45


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 16th October


This Thursday 16th October we once again illustrate our commitment to bringing you a fusion of performance comedy, stand up poetry and music.

HUMMELLO perform a feature length set for their penultimate appearance together…ahhh…expect semi-plugged rock ‘n’ jazz loveliness – he’s a little bit rock ‘n’ roll, she’s a little bit country, together they’re a little bit something else.


plus special guests:


DERYL WALSH – one of London’s brightest up and coming poetry performers presents a brand of verse that is uniquely her own.


BADEN PRINCE JUNIOR – immaculately delivered poetry, taking the spokenword beyond the expected

hosted by the ever svelt NATHAN PENLINGTON


and DJ’ed by DAVID BUSH

Admission is £5 waged and £3 concessions, but as a special
offer we are offering TWO TICKETS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE with a print out of
this web entry.



The Camden Head, Camden Passage, Islington, London, N1. Nearest tube:

Doors open at 8.30pm, show starts at 9pm.


See you there, but if you require any further information just CONTACT US
15.10.03 12:52


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 23rd October



After the overwhelming success of SHORTFUSE's 1st POETRY IDOL, whose winners have gone on to obtain performances across london, we again present the new talent night that is non-TV mediated.
SIX performers new to SHORTFUSE will perform for 10 minutes each, and YOU the audience get to decide the two wining acts who will both be given full length sets later in the year.

The performers include: PROJECT ADORNO, ANDY HULL, DAVID JOHNSON, GRAHAM BUCHAN, JAN NOBLE and SARAH KOBRINSKY.

The acts with the most points as voted by the audience on the night will be crowned SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL 2.

The proceedings will be hosted by the ever svelt: NATHAN PENLINGTON

and DJ’ed by: DAVID BUSH

Admission is £5 waged and £3 concessions, Doors open at 8.30pm, show starts at 9pm.

The Camden Head, Camden Passage, Islington, London, N1. Nearest tube: ANGEL

See you there, but if you require any further information just
CONTACT US
21.10.03 17:12


SHORTFUSE - Thursday 30th October

This Thursday SHORTFUSE brings you the one and only:



ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER - sharp tongued world travelling social surrealist / poet and songwriter/ disestablished in 1980/ 'a popular poet who actually earns his living at it rather than sitting in a garret feeling sorry for himself' - The Observer

+ JONATHON ASSER - poetry with observational subtlety and literary preciseness that camouflages a humour so dark you need a torch, previewing his new collection.

+ LIZ BENTLEY - joint winner of the 1ST SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL contest/ performing her own brand of life-affirming comedy

hosted by the ever svelte NATHAN PENLINGTON/ discs of darkness spun by DAVID BUSH

SHORTFUSE: Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London N1.

Tube: Angel. Doors: 8.30pm

Admission: £5/£3 concs

see you there, or if you require further information just contact us


CONTACT US
27.10.03 21:38