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Thursday 5th July This week at SHORTFUSE - London's only weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword, we bring you another Edinburgh Festival Preview plus two top comic poets... Tony Law "To see Tony Law is to inhale deep breaths of comedy oxygen" - The Herald "Law's genius for the random makes Salvidor Dali look about as abstract as Constable" - Metro Rachel Pantechnicon Poetry Idol 10 winner performs her winning set - a gentle combination of comic observation and word play. Hosted by: ‘A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original’ - Rob Newman 'The best qualified performance poet in the country' - BBC Radio 3, The Verb Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1 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 We welcome your comments about our events, send us your Are you part of the myspace.com revolution? If so, come and make friends: www.myspace.com/shortfuselondon Forthcoming Shows: Thursday 12th July A feature length show from Amused Moose Comedy Hot Starlets - as we lend our stage to welcome the latest generation of stand-ups: Andy Osho (Funny Women winner), Chris Martin, James Mason, Jack Whitehall, Nathan A Thomas, with Matt Rudge as guest compare. Plus Poem In Between People perform extracts from their forthcoming debut Edinburgh Fringe Show. Thursday 19th July OUR LAST SHOW OF THE SEASON Nathan Penlington hosts a feature length performance from the forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe show by Stewart Lee. Plus American poet Jamie Kilstein, and the fantastic A.F. Harrold. After tonight SHORTFUSE returns on 13th September 2007.
A feature length performance from the forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe show "The revenge of dog time" by this acclaimed stand-up. 
The people's favourite poet and children's author of such classics as 'Michelle in the house of crisps', performs her motivational poems for cats and humans.
Alison Brumfitt
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