Thursday 27th October - shortfuse

Thursday 27th October

This week at SHORTFUSE, London's ONLY weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword, we bring you the lastest installment of our world envied:

SHORTFUSE POETRY IDOL 6

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Elvis McGongal

Brett Van-Toen

Kate Fox

Kali Hughes

Wayne Smith

How does it work?
Six performers new to SHORTFUSE will perform for 10 minutes each, and then the audience will vote for their favourite acts. The winning two acts will both be given a full length paid set later in the year. Previous winners have gone on to secure regular full length sets at various other spokenword events including Express Excess, Apples & Snakes, plus 5 star Edinburgh Fringe shows. See www.20six.co.uk/poetryidol for more information.

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 3rd November: Logan Murray, Niall O'Sullivan, and Katie Southall.

Thursday 10th November: Marian Pashley, Paul Lyalls, and Rebecca Sabin.

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(31.10.05 10:41)
Another fantastic Poetry Idol Contest, all six acts were distinctive from each other and put on great performances. First up was Wayne Smith, his cheeky-cool-boy-next-door persona should take him far. Brett Van-Toen performed lyrically moving, and by turns cleverly funny, with a great reading voice. Kali Hughes closed the first half with a vibrant performance of well observed poems. Elvis McGonagall kicked off the second half with a confident blend of stand-up and comic poetry. Spinmaster Plantpot defied poetic boundaries, fusing comedy, poetry and song with a punk asthetic. Finally, Kate Fox mixed comic verse with a great delivery.
The audience cast their votes in what was a close run contest.
The overall winners were Wayne Smith and Kate Fox.
What SHORTFUSE nights, and the Poetry Idol Contests, have the power to do is raise questions: in a culture that is soft and safe, with a media that acts as a toddler's comfort blanket, it is important that live entertainment, especially a free thinking spokenword night, still has the ability to rattle the audience's bias and preconceptions of both what is and what isn't poetry, and what is permissable in terms of form, content and imagery. I hope we will still be able to provoke the unexpected and not know what is coming next for a long time to come.