Thursday 22nd September

SHORTFUSE returns from its summer break at the Edinburgh Fringe 2005 to start its new season of presenting London's ONLY weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, spokenword and music. And for the first show of the season we are pleased to present three of our favourite acts who are guaranteed to kick things off in style... 



Jesus Licks - Once again we are pleased to welcome the world's first truly feral band, a mix of grassy sounds and beautiful melodies, a pop sensibility teamed with dark chords and black comedic lyrics. Dark raw sugarcane music. (click here to see Jesus Licks competing for the most-people-at-once-on-the-shortfuse-stage award)


Karen Hayley




Previous performances have included: "ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FOOT SNOW WHITE"; "HAMMER HORROR STRIPTEASE", a striptease to a soundtrack of screams and horror music; and "SOMETHING IN THE WAY HE WAS ARRESTED UNDER THE 1989 PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT", sung in a balaclava, at all kinds of venues from The Paradiso, Amsterdam, to The ICA and The Torture Garden in London...the kind of  spokenword your mother said you should keep away from...


Heather Taylor


Previewing excerpts from her forthcoming full length collection 'Horizon & Back' (Tall Lighthouse) - poetry with a sleek sensual edge that hides a razor sharp wit.


 


 


 


With Resident Host:


NATHAN PENLINGTON-


‘A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original’ - Rob Newman 


‘Consistently original and accessible’ – Chortle



Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. or click here for details of bus routes.


Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.


SOME SHOWS DO SELL OUT AND THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE SHOWS- so, if there is a show you really don't want to miss our advice is to reserve tickets with us in advance. Just email your full name, the number of tickets you require, and a contact telephone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk. We will hold them for you on the date of the show, they will be available for collection upon payment at the door between 8pm and 8.30pm.


THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR


Thursday 29th September: Authors from Pulp.Net will be here to entertain and terrorize you with prizewinning stories from the Down the Angel competition. Featuring: Andrew Lloyd Jones, Mark Piggott, Joe Ambrose, Lane Ashfeldt (editor), Plus Julie Balloo tbc.


Thursday 6th October: Fortnight and Unit, Brains and Virgin, and Rhian Edwards.


Thursday 13th October: Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod, Liz Bentley, and Dean Wilson. 


Thursday 27th October: POETRY IDOL(tm) 6 - finalists to be announced after closing date for entries - 27th September...you still have time to enter yours.


Thursday 3rd November: Once again we play host to Canada's finest poetry/music group The Fugitives
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Thursday 29th September

This week at SHORTFUSE - London's ONLY weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword we play host to Pulp.net:



“Cool without being intimidating” The Guardian

“Great site” Douglas Coupland

Pulp Net is a monthly online literary magazine that publishes new short fiction by established and rising new authors...


and this week authors and storytellers from pulp.net will be here to entertain and terrorise you with prize-winning stories from the Down the Angel competition.


Featuring local authors: Andrew Lloyd Jones, Julie Balloo, Mark Piggott, and Joe Ambrose.


With Resident Host:


NATHAN PENLINGTON-


‘A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original’ - Rob Newman 


‘Consistently original and accessible’ – Chortle



Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1

Tube: Angel. or click here for details of bus routes.


Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.


SOME SHOWS DO SELL OUT AND THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE SHOWS- so, if there is a show you really don't want to miss our advice is to reserve tickets with us in advance. Just email your full name, the number of tickets you require, and a contact telephone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk. We will hold them for you on the date of the show, they will be available for collection upon payment at the door between 8pm and 8.30pm.


THERE WILL ALSO BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR


Thursday 6th October: Fortnight and Unit, Brains and Virgin, and Rhian Edwards.


Thursday 13th October: Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod, Liz Bentley, and Dean Wilson. 


Thursday 27th October: POETRY IDOL(tm) 6 - finalists to be announced after closing date for entries - 27th September...you still have time to enter yours.


 
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