Port Eliot Lit Fest 07
The Priscillas 4-piece all girl punk-pop band. Fun, entertaining show with some catchy songs.
Dulwich Ukelele Club - 10 piece ukulele band. Keen to point out they were actually from the cheaper end of East Dulwich. Lively display of all-round verve and gusto, and some fine songs. Recommended.
Louis Eliot - highly agreeable country rock from this St Germans-based singer/songwriter, who also featured in Black Friday. I was gutted I only caught a couple of minutes of this.
Black Friday - raucous celtic folk. A festival highlight.
Salt Peter - lascivious porno dub stars back at Port Eliot for more renditions of "I’m not gay but I’ll snog you anyway", "Everybody back to mine", "Oi Oi Savaloy" etc. V good.
The Bucket Boys - Cornwall-based ageing rockers of impressive pedigree (Pink Floyd etc) with their mix of blues country swing & soul. Excellent good time vibes and musicianship.
Luke Wright - Performance poet returning from Port Eliot 2006. Good.
Aisle 16 - Luke Wright’s Poetry Collective mates. Good.
Rosie Boycott - speaking on her farm and feminism and possessing a goddess-like stature approaching that of say a Martha Wainwright here in Paper World.
Anarchy in the UK - Tom Hodgkinson - editor of The Idler, reading from his book "How to be Free", sequel to best-selling "How to be Idle". Tracing a line between the 19th Century Parisian Flaneurs, through to the Beats, Hippies, Situationists and Punks, though strangely omitting any reference to the denizens of W2 gambling emporia. The Paper became attuned to some of these ideas a while ago and has even debated on Bertrand Russell’s essay “In Praise of Idleness” with a certain floppy-haired marketing executive regularly seen at HQ.
Vive La Rock! - Paul Gorman - author of style bible “ The Look : Adventures in Rock & Pop fashion”. Top NY-based fashion designer Anna Sui (weirdly hitherto unknown to The Paper) and a croak-voiced Anita Pallenberg shared the stage. Readings about encounters with Elvis’s tailor, McLaren, Westwood etc. The Paper absorbed the info presented with a certain amount of indifference.
Simon Munnery - thankfully had dispensed with last year’s bizarre Sherlock Holmes character comedy shenanigans, this was a straightforward stand-up act, and a pretty masterly one.
Joe Boyd - 60s record producer for Pink Floyd, Nick Drake etc reading from his memoirs, interspersed with excerpts over the PA of some of the more celebrated recordings he was involved in, e.g. Arnold Layne, Poor Boy. Pleasant enough to zone out to.
Jones and Barnard - Gareth Jones and Matt Barnard, who turned out to be none other than dungeon stalwart Matt “The Jug” Barnard. Act consisted of MB balancing a pint of lager on his head, drinking it through a tube, all whilst juggling 3 flaming clubs, while GJ escaped from a straitjacket. Good to see the Jug again, though no time to reminisce in any detail other than to learn that he had had 1% of BadBeat at the WSOP ME.
Dulwich Ukelele Club - 10 piece ukulele band. Keen to point out they were actually from the cheaper end of East Dulwich. Lively display of all-round verve and gusto, and some fine songs. Recommended.
Louis Eliot - highly agreeable country rock from this St Germans-based singer/songwriter, who also featured in Black Friday. I was gutted I only caught a couple of minutes of this.
Black Friday - raucous celtic folk. A festival highlight.
Salt Peter - lascivious porno dub stars back at Port Eliot for more renditions of "I’m not gay but I’ll snog you anyway", "Everybody back to mine", "Oi Oi Savaloy" etc. V good.
The Bucket Boys - Cornwall-based ageing rockers of impressive pedigree (Pink Floyd etc) with their mix of blues country swing & soul. Excellent good time vibes and musicianship.
Luke Wright - Performance poet returning from Port Eliot 2006. Good.
Aisle 16 - Luke Wright’s Poetry Collective mates. Good.
Rosie Boycott - speaking on her farm and feminism and possessing a goddess-like stature approaching that of say a Martha Wainwright here in Paper World.
Anarchy in the UK - Tom Hodgkinson - editor of The Idler, reading from his book "How to be Free", sequel to best-selling "How to be Idle". Tracing a line between the 19th Century Parisian Flaneurs, through to the Beats, Hippies, Situationists and Punks, though strangely omitting any reference to the denizens of W2 gambling emporia. The Paper became attuned to some of these ideas a while ago and has even debated on Bertrand Russell’s essay “In Praise of Idleness” with a certain floppy-haired marketing executive regularly seen at HQ.
Vive La Rock! - Paul Gorman - author of style bible “ The Look : Adventures in Rock & Pop fashion”. Top NY-based fashion designer Anna Sui (weirdly hitherto unknown to The Paper) and a croak-voiced Anita Pallenberg shared the stage. Readings about encounters with Elvis’s tailor, McLaren, Westwood etc. The Paper absorbed the info presented with a certain amount of indifference.
Simon Munnery - thankfully had dispensed with last year’s bizarre Sherlock Holmes character comedy shenanigans, this was a straightforward stand-up act, and a pretty masterly one.
Joe Boyd - 60s record producer for Pink Floyd, Nick Drake etc reading from his memoirs, interspersed with excerpts over the PA of some of the more celebrated recordings he was involved in, e.g. Arnold Layne, Poor Boy. Pleasant enough to zone out to.
Jones and Barnard - Gareth Jones and Matt Barnard, who turned out to be none other than dungeon stalwart Matt “The Jug” Barnard. Act consisted of MB balancing a pint of lager on his head, drinking it through a tube, all whilst juggling 3 flaming clubs, while GJ escaped from a straitjacket. Good to see the Jug again, though no time to reminisce in any detail other than to learn that he had had 1% of BadBeat at the WSOP ME.
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