Gigs

Upcoming:


Poetry Reading Channels (Updated Regularly):


Podcast appearances here

Past Gigs


Speak Easy
07 Mar 2024
1. Call Centre

Bounty Unleashed
04 Mar 2024
1. Call Centre
2. Bumping into your parents

Write Out Loud, Stockport
08 Feb 2024
1. John 
2. Snow
3. (Improvised) 

Bounty Unleashed
05 Feb 24
1. John
2. Mannequin and Chips 

Speak Easy
01 Feb 2024
1. Smow
2. John 

Speak Easy
04 January 2024
1. Time
2. 2 x 40 word dating stories 

Random Saturday Spoken Word Open Mic (Clive Oseman)
30 December 2023 
Extract from 'Birth'
Shaun Ryder
Papers and Ink 

Sarah L Dixon Poetry Open Mic
27 December 2023 
Three visits to Paris ten years apart 
Extract from 'Birth

Hannah's Bookshelf
16 December 2023 (Three Minute Santas special)
Christmas Jumper 

BBC Upload
16 December 2023
Talking about Birth (Extract also read)

Write Out Loud Stockport
14 December 2023
1. Death (From 'Birth')
2. Christmas Jumper
3. Christmas Tree

Oh Beehive
11 December 2023
1. Christmas Jumper
2. Christmas Tree

Speak Easy
7 December 2023
1. Death (From 'Birth')
2. Reindeer 
3. Christmas Tree

Blot from the Blue
3 December 2023
1. Extract from 'Birth'
2. Reindeer 

Hannah's Bookshelf
2 December 2023
Discussing 'Birth' 

Ruth O'Reilly Show, All FM 
25 November 2023
1. Extract from 'Birth'
2. Your Fathers records
3. Three visits to Paris 

Oh Beehive,
18 November 203
1. Extract from 'Birth'
2. Reindeer / Christmas Tree

Write Out Loud, Stockport 
9  November 2023 
1. Extract from 'Birth' 

Speak Easy, 
2 November 2023
1. Extract from 'Birth' 

Northern Poetry Society
30th October 2023
1. The day we swam in the rain
2. My Mother is a Witch 

Oh Beehive
23rd October 2023
1. The day we swam in the rain
2. My Mother is a Witch 

Speak Easy
5th October 2023
Birth (Extract) 

Write Out Loud Stockport
14 September 2023 
1. 3 trips to Paris within 10 years
2. Rolling Stones (with Amanda)
3. 2 x 40 word dating nightmares
4. Improvised Poem 

Speak Easy
7th September 2023 
1. 3 trips to Paris within 10 years
2. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street

Spoken Passions
27 August 2023
1. Birth (Extract)
2. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street
3. Your Father's records 

Jamie Woods live launch
Thurs 17 August 2023
1. Reflections on how I would have dealt with diabetes at a earlier age
2. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street

W.O.L. Stockport
August 2023 
4 x flash fiction pieces 

Mencap Fundraiser
1. My invisible cat
2. A love poem for my shoes 

Guide Bridge Theatre
July 2023 
1. Mannequin and Chips 
2. Jellybaby monlolgue


W.O.L. Stockport
July 2023
3 x flash fiction pieces 

Speak Easy
July 2023
3 x flash fiction pieces

What if they laugh at me? (Support)
Petersgate Tap, Stockport 
21 June 2023 

1. 3 x 40-word flash fiction dating stories
a) Contortionist
b) Harsh Interviewer
c) Two Poets 
2. Coffee Poisoner 
3. Fight to the death between Chat GPT and Google Bard
4. Love Letter Man 
5. Bumping into your parents at a orgy


W.O.L. Stockport
June 2023
3 x poems

Speak Easy 
June 2023

1. 3 x 40 word bad dating stories 
2. Fight to the death between Chat GPT and Google Bard 

Write Out Loud Stockport
11 May 2023 
1. Open Spaces
2. Bumping into your parents at an orgy
3. Paul Auster Haiku
4. (Improvised Poem)

Speak Easy
04 May 2023
1. Bumping into your parents at an orgy
2. Hide and Seek 

Guide Bridge Theatre
21 April 2023
1. Ever Wondered?
2. Waiting for the last train home
3. Percy 

Just Stories
19 April 2023
1. Speed dating and Jelly Babies 
2. Paranoid bread man in Asda Bread Asile 

Write Out Loud Stockport
13 April 2023
1. Before Sweets
2. Speed dating and Jelly Babies 

Speak Easy
06 April 2023
1. Vanishing Trick
2. Speed dating and Jelly Babies

Flight of the Dragonflies
28 March 2023
1. Question
2. Doctors (Pre-Diabetes)
3. Courage
4. Mannequin and Chips

Ashley Edge Book Launch Support Slot
19 March 2023 
1. Question 1
2. Doctors Appointment (Pre-Diabetes)
3.  Courage
4.  Father 

Oh Beehive
17 March 2023 
1. Hide and Seek 

Speak Easy 
02 March 2023
1. Reflections on how I would have dealt with Diabetes at an earlier age
2. Doctors Appointment/ 

The Ruth Show 
All Fm
26 February 2023
2 hour session including the following:
1. Reflections on how I would have dealt with Diabetes at an earlier age
2. Doctors Appointment. 

Randy Orton Night 
14 February 2023 
1. Ever Wondered?
2. The Violinist 
3. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire 
4. Crossing bridges
5. Percy
(A Means to an End Concert)

Write Out Loud Stockport 
08 February 2023 
1. Leaving their lands to science
2. Bad Friend. 

Mencap Reading (Denton) 
07 February 2023 
1. Mannquien and Chips
2. Alien Invasions 

Speak Easy
02 February 2023
1. Leaving their lands to science
2. Bad Friend. 

Nobody left behind Zoom launch
27 January 2023
Everything in the Middle. 

Nobody left behind live launch
24 January 2023
Everything in the Middle 

The Other
The Old Mokey, Manchester
13 January 2023

Dead Darlings Podcast
25 December 2022

Ruth O'Reilly Show
All FM
25 December 2022

Write Out Loud Wigan (Zoom)
22 December 2022
1. Longford Theatre
2. Remains of a Christmas Day Party
3. The Great Escape 

Hannah's Bookshelf
North Manchester FM
16 December 2022

Blot from the Blue
11 December 2022

Write Out Loud Stockport
08 December 2022
1. Everything in the middle
2. Satan Christmas (with Amanda Nicholson)
3. Martian Job Centre 

Youtube sessions for In the Midst of Winter

Like a Blot from the Blue
04 December 2022
1. Open Ground
2. Unexpected change of weather 
3. The curious incident of the strange Christmas presents in the hotel car park. 

Like a Blot from the Blue Productions
04 December 2022

Speak Easy
01 December 2022

Oh Beehive
25 November 2022
1. Remains of a Christmas Day Party
2. The Midst of Winter IV
3. The Curious incident of the Strange Christmas Presents in the Car Park 

Just Stories
23 November 2022

Worlds Collide
20 November 2022 
1. Everything in the Middle.
2. Last Day

Write Out Loud
10 November 2022
1. The Violinist
2. Left behind
3. Youth Training Scheme Placement 

Speak Easy
03 November 2022
1. Middle of Everything
2. Christmas Party
Can be heard here

Hannah's Bookshelf
29 October 2022
3 minute scares
Can be heard here

Don't talk write Podcast
28 October 2022
Can be heard here

Somebody Write this
27 October 2022
Can be heard here

Worlds Collide
23 October 2022
1. Last Story
2. Buried Treasure
3. The Violinist

Oh Beehive
1. 4 x Fruit Haikus
2. Alien Shoplifter. 

Glossop Open Mic 
20 October 2022
1. Mannequin and Chips
2. Drinking in Silence 
3. Day out to Blackpool
4. Alien Invasion 

PASTA
18 October 2022
1. Missing the Bus
2. Alien Invasion 

Thresholds of Reality Podcast
This can be streamed here

Write Out Loud Stockport 
13 October 2022
1. Drinking in Silence
2. Customer Service 
3. 199 Steps 

Speak Easy
06 October 2022 
1. Drinking in Silence
2. The Violinist

Decent Beings 
05 October 2022 
1. Mannequin and Chips
2. Day out to Blackpool
3. Writing Group
4. Drinking in Silence 
5. Customer Service
6. The Violinist

Worlds Collide
18 September 2022
1. Drinking in Silence.
2. Customer Service. 

Oh Beehive
16 September 2022.
1. Drinking in Silence.
2. Customer Service. 

Speak Easy
1 September 2022
1. 4 X Interviews
2. Alien Bus Driver. 

Write Out Loud Stockport
11 August 2022
1. Ex Bosses
2. Martian shoplifter at Asda

Dead Darlings Podcast
August 2022

Speak Easy 
04 August 2022

Word Central
26 July 2022
1. Reflections on getting Diabetes at a younger age.
2. Alien Invasion

Write Out Loud Stockport
14 July 2022
1. Reflections on getting Diabetes at a younger age.
2. Alien Invasion

Speak Easy
07 July 2022
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Reflections on getting Diabetes at a younger age
Audio off event can be found here

Just Stories
22 June 2022
1. Manniequin and Chips
2. Missing the 33 Bus
3. Alien Invasion
Audio of event can be found here

Manley Park Festival (celebrate festival)
11 June 2022
1. Mannequin and Chips
2. Missing the Bus
3.  Alien invasion
Pictures here

Speak Easy June 2022
9 June 2022
1. Missing the Bus
2.  Alien invasion
Audio here

Blot from the Blue
3 June 2022
1. Missing the Bus
2.  Alien invasion
Video footage here

Shepley Woods Live Session
End May 2022


NeurodiVERSE - online book launch
25 May 2022
1. Between then and now (On just over 1 Hour and 1 Minute)
Video can be seen here

Write Out Loud Stockport
12 May 2022
1. Decades 
2. Writing Group
3. Day Out to Blackpool 

Hannah's Bookshelf
07 May 2022
Mention about my appearance in NeurodiVERSE about 15 to 20 minutes into 1st hour.

Poetry for All FM Radio
07 May 2022
1. Between then and now
2. Haiku in Blooms (Extract)
3. Skating in others expectations
4. Playing Trumpton Cover versions at the edge of Stonehenge with Freddie Phillips
5. Mannequin and Chips
Can be heard here

BBC Upload (Manchester)
07 May 2022
1. Between then and now.
Can be heard here

Speak Easy
05 May 2022
1. Decades
2. Writing Group 
Can be heard here

Storytime with Andy and Amanda April 2022
18 April 2022
Can be heard here

All FM Radio Session (Sunday Chats 969 Podcast) 
17 April 2022
1. Between then and now
2. Haiku in Bloom extracts
3. Mannequin and chips
Can be heard here

Howl (Cover version by Like Blot from the Blue Productions)
09 April 2022

RMT Union's Disabled Members' Conference
08 April 2022
1. Between then and now (A life before and after the discovery of Dyspraxia)
Pictures can be seen here and here

Speak Easy
07 April 2022
1. Between then and now (A life before and after the discovery of Dyspraxia)
2. Day out to Blackpool 
Can be heard here

First Impressions Podcast
28 March 2022
1. Ghosts into Negatives
2. Between then and now (A life before and after the discovery of Dyspraxia)
3. Mannequin and Chips 
Can be heard at all of the usual places including here

Hannah's Bookshelf
25 March 2022
1. The Highwayman's Daughter
2. Between then and now (A life before and after the discovery of Dyspraxia)
3. Playing guitar with Freddie Phillips on the outskirts of Stonehenge
Can be heard here

18 March 2022
Oh Beehive
1. Day out to Blackpool
2. Mannequin and Chips 

12 March 2022
Storytime with Andy and Amanda Episode 5

10 March 2022
Write Out Loud Stockport 
1. Falling from View 
2. Alternative World 

06 March 2022
Like a blot from the blue
1. Falling from View
2. Things had changed for good 

03 March 2022
Speak Easy
1. Falling from View
2. Alternative World 

13 February 2022
Storytime with Andy & Amanda Episode 4

10 February 2022
Write Out Loud Stockport
1. Run away with me again in 8 words (With Amanda Nicholson)
2. 4 Memories at the edge of Darkness
3. 4 Science Fiction Nightmares at the edge of Madness

03 February 2022
Speak Easy
1. Mannequin and Chips
2. Run away with me again in 8 words (With Amanda Nicholson) 

15 January 2022
Storytime with Andy & Amanda Episode 3
Podcast can be downloaded at all the usual places including here

13 January 2022
Write Out Loud Stockport
1. Twenty Yards behind
2. Telling the truth 
3. (Improvised) 

09 January 2022
Like a blot from the blue

1. Twenty Yards behind
2. Telling the truth
3. Mannequin and chips

20 December 2021
Storytime with Andy & Amanda Episode 2

1. End of the Night
2. Gateposts in the snow 
3. Secret Santa 

14 December 2021
Word Central 

1. The curious incident of the strange christmas present in the hotel car park
2. Secret Santa 

07 December 2021
Reading in Bed Episode 47

1. Snowfight

05 December 2021
Blot from the Blue

1. Left behind
2. End of the Night 
3. Secret Santa
05 December 2021
Storytime with anda and Andy

1. Snowfight

04 December 2021
The Oooh Beehive UK online slam Championship Grand Final
(Guest Judge) 

02 December 2021
Speak Easy (Live)

1) The curious incident of the strange christma presents in the hotel car park
2) Secret Santa 

21 November 2021
Storytime with Andy and Amanda Episode 1

1. Winter and only Winter
2. Mannequin and Chips 
3. Percy

(Available from all of the usual places including
https://readinginbed.bandcamp.com/album/storytime-with-amanda-and-andy-episode-1-november-2021)


21 November 2021
Poems from 'The Snow was all we could see'

1. Snow Fight
2. End of the Night
3. Remains of a Christmas Day Beach Party
4. Winter and only Winter
5. The Curious incident of the strange Christmas Present
6. Secret Santa 

(Poem can be een athttps://www.facebook.com/andynpoet/videos/3013034822292276)

16 November 2021
Stockport Talking Newspapers

1. Change


11 November 2021
Write Out Loud Stockport

1. Stockport Market (Last goodbye)
2. Manniquen and Chips
3. Winter and only Winter


09 November 2021
Black Cat Poets

1. Stockport Market (Last goodbye)
2. Roman Lakes
3. End of the Night 


04 November 2021
Speak Easy (Live)

1. Stockport Market (Last goodbye)
2. Roman Lakes 
3. End of the Night 



31 October 2021
Hannah's bookshelf

17 October 2021
Stockport Together Exhibition
1. Change 

03 October 2021
Blot from the Blue
1. Gateposts in the snow
2. Winter Fair 
3. Secret Santa

01 October 2021
Ooh Beehive Online Slam
(No reading - I am guest judging)

27 Word Central 2021
Word Central
1. Winter Night
2. Your fathers records 

25 September 2021
Eat the Storms Podcast appearance
1. Kissing my every Scent 
2. Threads of a Jumper 
3. Winter and only Winter 
4. Your fathers records 
Stream here

17 September 2021
Friday LIVE With Phil Crowshaw
Stream here

13 September 2021
Speak Easy (Live - Chorlton Arts Festival)

02 September 2021
Speak Easy (Live)
Dulcmer, Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester

27 August 2021
From the Shadows Launch

17 August 2021
Speak Easy (Zoom)

16 August 2021

09 August 2021
Write Out Loud (Stockport)

1. Waiting
2.  Grief 

05 August 2021
Speak Easy Live
Dulicmer, Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester



01 August 2021
Like a blot from the blue

1. The Scottish curse of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre
2. Haiku of Life segments 
a) 1972
b) 1974
c) 1978
3. Winter and only Winter
4. Its snowing 

25 July 2021
Video Passions

14 July 2021
Speak Easy (Zoom)
1. No-one there
2. Between then and now
3. Winter and only Winter 

11 July 2021
Write Out Loud (Stockport)
1. Between then and now
2. Winter and only Winter

10 July 2021
Florida Writer Podcast
This can be streamed here

01 July 2021
Speak Easy 
1. Single ticket to Dyspraxia 
2. Unicorn Rescue 

27 June 2021
Shadowplay (UK) (Live on Facebook) 
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Hardrock Village
3. Ghosts into Negatives
4. Unplanned weekend in Blackpool
5. Your fathers records
6. Single ticket to Dyspraxia 
7. Notes on children playing in the snow
8. Open Ground
9. Unicorn Rescue 

Available here, here and here

14 June 2021
Write Out Loud Stockport (Zoom)
1. The Day of the Whit Parade 
2. Unicorn Rescue 

03 June 2021 
Write Out Loud, Bolton
1. The Day of the Whit Parade
2. Unicorn Rescue

02 June 2021
Speak Easy (Zoom) 
1. Homemade Chains and Preston Market 
2. The Scottish Curse of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre 

27 May 2021
Glossop Book Festival 
1. Migration
2. The End of Summer 
3. Threads of a Jumper
4. Your Fathers Records 
5. Homemade Chains and Preston Market
6. Unicorn Rescue 

23 May 2021
Rising in Love Charity Fair Fete 
1. Migration
2. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
3. Your Fathers Records
4. The Scottish Curse of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre
5. Homemade Chains and Preston Market 

20 May 2021
Away with Words (Zoom)
1. Homemade chains and Preston Market
2. The Scottish Curse of the Oldham Coliseum Theatre  

10 May 2021
Write Out Loud Stockport
1. Hiding in the Black Horse in Farnworth
2. Rain Storms on Tandle Hill 

05 May 2021
Speak Easy
1. Hiding in the Black Horse in Farnworth
2. Rain Storms on Tandle Hill 

25 April 2021
Spoken Passions

20 April 2021
Write Out Loud, Sale
1) Hiding in the black horse in Farnsworth
2) Homage to Bagpuss in Hove 
3) Your father's records

12 April 2021
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1) Homage to Bagpuss in Stockport
2) Wedding  Story
3) Improvised Story 

12 April 2021
Koll, Andy and Amanda show
1) 1974
2) 1976
3) 1978 
(From 'Haiku of Life') 

08 April 2021
Coalition Poetry
1) Homage to Bagpuss in Hove
2) 1978 (Haiku)
3) Honeymoon Affair 
4) 1981 (Haiku)
5) Bad Wedding 

07 April 2021
Speak Easy
1) Homage to Bagpuss in Hove
2) 1979 (Haiki)
3) Interview as a hired killer 

28 March 2021
Video Passions

28 March 2021
Underground Haiku chat and reading
1) Selection of pieces read. 

21 March 2021
World Poetry Day exclusive reading
with Amanda Steel 
Here and Here 

18 March 2021
Artscape
1. A letter to the future (Ocean in a Bottle with Amanda Steel)
2. The fire within my heart (Extract) (Ocean in a Bottle with Ayshen Irfan) 
3. Dawn Chorus (Ocean in a Bottle)

14 March 2021
Like a blot from the blue
1. Final Poem
2. War
3. Bad Wedding 

10 March 2021
Write Out Loud, Bolton
1. Notes on children playing in the snow
2. End of the night 

08 March 2021
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Notes on children playing in the snow
2. End of the Night

03 March 2021
Speak Easy
1. Post Office
2. End of the Night

28 February 2021
Video Passions
1. Post Office
2. Notes from children playing in the snow 

17 February 2021
Art Scape
1. Waiting to land on Venus Part 1 (Edit) (Ocean in a Bottle)

08 February 2021
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
1. Open Ground
2. Robot Invasion in Stalybridge Train Station

05 February 2021
Word Stafford (Headline Slot)
1. The End of Winter
2. Dreams into Negatives
3. Threads of a Jumper
4. Migration
5. Open Ground
6. Playing Freddie Phillips cover versions at Stonehenge

03 February 2021
Speak Easy
1. Migration
2. Open Ground

02 February 2021
Buxton Words
1. Migration
2. Open Ground
3. The End of Winter
4. Robot Revolution at Stalybridge Train Station

31 January 2021
Like a Blot from the Blue
(NB. I am around 33 minutes into this link) 

31 January 2021
Spoken Passions
1. Migration
2. Open Ground

21 January 2021
Away with words

11 January 2021
Write Out Loud Stockport 
1. Facing the Void
2. Three pieces of Snowmen at War 

10 January 2021
Like a blot from the blue
1. Apple Scrumpting near Arundel Castle
2. Playing Trumpton cover versions with Freddie Phillips near Stonehenge

08 January 2021
Brief chat about Europa IV and Games People Play

Pieces read from from Europa IV were:
1) Heroic Part 1 to 6 2) Victims Part 1 to 6 Pieces read from Games People play were:
1) Games People Play 2) Animals in their bags 3) Gone, Gone, Gone 4) Send in the Clowns 5) Rage 6) Chair Throwing 7) Strange breakfast 8) Haunted Kilt


06 January 2021
Speak Easy
1. Facing the Void
2. Asleep on Flookborough Beach with Nick Drake 

05 January 2021
Buxton Words
1. Facing the Void
2. Playing Trumpton cover versions with Freddie Phillips at the edge of Stonehenge.
3. Selected scenes from Snowmen at War
4. Asleep on Flookborough Beach with Nick Drake 

29 December 2020
Blackdrop 
1. Piano burial at Morecombe
2. Playing Trumpton cover versions with Freddie Phillips at the edge of Stonehenge
3. Ghosts into Negatives

26 December 2020
Away with words Hull - Year Review
(I am on here around 1 hour ten minutes)

20  December 2020
Bard Company at Christmas Night
1. The Great Escape 

20 December 2020
Spoken Passions

19 December 2020
Hannah's Bookshelf

17 December 2020
Away with words
1. Playing Freddie Phillips cover versions at the edge of Stonehenge
2. Spectual Ghost Town
Available here and here (the full show)

14 December 2020
Write Out Loud Stockport 
1. The Great Escape
2. Unexpected Christmas Present 

06 December 2020
The Sunday Assembly
1. Closed Winter Wonderland by the Sea Front 
2. Playing Freddie Phillips by the edge of Stone Henge
3. Unexpected Christmas Present 

02 December 2020
Speak Easy

30 November 2020
Spoken Passions

17 November 2020
Write and release 
1. Playing Freddie Phillips covers at the edge of Stonehenge
2. The Ghost of Manchester Bootle Street Police Station

09 November 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
1. Playing Freddie Phillips covers at the edge of Stonehenge
2. Spectual Ghost Town

06 November 2020
Away with Words 
1. The Ghost of Manchester Bootle Street Police Station
2. Moving down South

04 November 2020
Speak Easy

25 October 2020
Spoken Passions, Ashton

15 October 2020
Away with Words
(Third Poet on)

13 October 2020
Write and Release
1. Piano burial in Morecombe
2. Moving down South

12 October 2020
Write Out Loud Stockport
1. Piano burial in Morecombe
2. Hidden III
3. (Improvised)

07 October 2020
Speak Easy

04 October 2020
Ruth and Nat Show, All FM
1. With you at Trafford general 

04 October 2020

03 October 2020
Friendswood Library 2020
Ekphrastic Poetry Reading 
1. On Horses minus their readers.

02 October 2020

01 October 2020
Away with Words

27 September 2020
Spoken Passions

27 September 2020
Nat and Ruth Show, All FM
1. With you at Trafford General

21 September 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Legs
2. Your fathers records
3. Moving down South

19 September 2020
Hannah's bookshelf 
(Last poet of the show - around 1 Hour 40 minutes)

16 September 2020
Sonnets for Shakespeare 
(About one hour and twenty minutes into the show)

15 September 2020
Write Out Loud, Sale 
1. Edge of the world with Billy McKenzie
2. Alone together 
3. With you at Trafford General 

14 September 2020
Words to Remember book launch
1. With you at Trafford General
Live here and here 

04 September 2020
Words to Remember video special

02 September 2020
Speak Easy 

31 August 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
Seven letters to my heart:

1) The Complete Marble
2) Looking backward / Looking forward
3) Ekuphrastic towers
4) Woven Transitions
5) 8 Weeks of Lockdown
6) 6 Weeks of Lockdown
7) Transient Magic 

8) In a Pickle 
9) (Improvised Poem)

30 August 2020
Video Passions

26 August 2020
Away with Words
1. Isolation in Spring
2. Facing the music at the River Tame
3. Abandoned Cricket Ground
Can be seen here (1 Hour and 26 minutes in)
or here (solo)

25 August 2020
Featured on the Podcast Word Bin
where I talk about binning the word faffing.
Can be heard here

22 August 2020
Hannah's bookcase
Can be heard here

13 August 2020
Write and Release
1. A different kind of love
2. Facing the music 

11 August 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. A different kind of love
2. Facing the music 

02 August 2020 
Facebook live for the lockdown was all we could see
1. Alone together
2. The flowers 
3. The trees in lockdown
4. The cure for broken dreams 

Can be seen here and here 

28 July 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Return to normality
2. Change in seasons
3. Hopeless Rescue
4. Invisible Love
5. Lost in a forest in pitch darkness at midnight
6. (Improvised Poem)

26 July 2020
Video Passions
1. The cure for broken dreams (with Amanda Steel)
2. Alone together (with Amanda Steel)
3. The trees in Lockdown

20 July 2020
Carol's Pod
1. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil 1995)
2. Waiting for the ice to melt
3. Feelings much closer to home
4. The trees in Lockdown

Can be heard at:
here  here here here here here here here

16 July 2020
Away with Words (Hull)
1. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
2. Hitching a Ride III
3. The trees in Lockdown

Can be seen here

15 July 2020
Speak Easy 
1. A study of Silence
2. A Poem of Nothing.

Can be seen here and here

11/12 July 2020
Modwords Festival
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Migration
3. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
4. Waiting for the ice to melt
5. Feelings much closer to home
6. The trees in Lockdown

Can be seen here (I'm first act on) and here

08 July 2020
Write and Release
1. Nothing
2. The day after yesterday and the day before

Can be seen here

05 July 2020
Facebook live feed
Reading out extracts from both 'Extracts at the end of the world'
and 'Buried alive on the Wall'.

Can be seen here and here

01 July 2020
Speak Easy 
1. Abandoned Cricket Ground
2. The day after yesterday and the day before

Can be seen here and here

28 June 2020
Video Passions
1. Abandoned Cricket Ground
2. The flowers

28 June 2020
Zoom Feed reading onto facebook
1. The flowers
2. Hitching a Ride III
3. Leaving Lockdown

Can be seen here and here

26 June 2020
Hannah's Bookshelf Lockdown tales
Forgotten Hero

23 June 2020
Natasha's group
1. Neptune
2. Migration
3. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
4. Bicycle Poem 1
5. Bicycle Poem 2
6. After the hailstorm
7. Short Horror Story I
8. Percy
9. With you at Trafford General

22 June 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
1. With you and your family in Broadway Shopping Food Court
2. Return to Shipley Woods
3. (Improvised)

18 June 2020
Away with Words
1. Different kind of Protest
2. Faces
3. Faces (II)
4. Migration

My set can be seen here
The full show is here

16 June 2020
Speak Easy 
1.With you at Trafford General
2. Leaving Lockdown

12 June 2020
It's not easy being great (Guest on Caroline Burrows Versecycle Project)
Verse 42

10 June 2020
Write and Release
1. Different kind of protest
2. With you at Trafford General

08 June 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Different kind of Protest
2. With you at Trafford General
3. Last Junction at Denton

03 June 2020
Speak Easy
1. Isolation in Spring
2. Tandle Hill

01 June 2020
Tahira Rehman Poet Podcast
1. Skating in others expectaions
2. Under the Bridge (Dreams of Brazil, 19 95)
Can be streamed from:
here here here here here here here

01 June 2020
Write Out Loud Stockport
1. Isolation in Spring
2. Life minus the subtitles

31 May 2020
Countryside Poems Volume 2 

30 May 2020
Spoken Passions
1. Tandle Hill
2. Isolation in Spring 

28 May 2020
Away with Words
1. Tandle Hill
2. Waiting for the ice to melt
3. Feelings much closer to home
4. Percy

My set can be seen here
The full show can be seen here
The full show can also be seen here

27 May 2020
Write Out Loud Bolton
1. Isolation in Spring
2. Gone, gone, gone (the social underbelly of Hulme)

25 May 2020
DrayZera Uncensored Podcast (I'm around 20 minutes in)

23 May 2020
Poets Unplugged Podcast
1. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria
2. The Killing Joke / Regret
3. Forgotten Hero
4. The trees in Lockdown
5. Faces / Faces 2
6. Percy
7. Alone together
8. Run away with me in 7 words (with Amanda Steel)

Can be streamed here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here)

22 May 2020
Facebook live (with Amanda Steel)
1. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria
2. The Killing Joke / Regret
3. Forgotten Hero
4. The trees in Lockdown
5. Faces / Faces 2
6. Percy
7. Alone together
8. Run away with me in 7 words (with Amanda Steel)

Can be streamed here and here

20 May 2020
Speak Easy 
1. The trees in Lockdown
2. Life minus the subtitles

19 May 2020
Write Out Loud, Sale 
1. The Last Joke
2. Regret
3. Tandle Hill

15 May 2020
Private Concert for Church
1. Edge of the world with Billy McKenzie
2. Waiting for the ice to melt
3. The Great Escape
4. Percy

14 May 2020
Big Poetry goes viral
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Waiting for the Ice to Melt
3. Under the Bridge
4. Percy

(The full show can be seen here - I'm about half a hour in)

13 May 2020
Write and Release 
1. Hitching a Ride III
2. The Flowers
3. Up on the Roof

Write Out Loud, Stockport
11 May 2020
1. Hitching a Ride II
2. Temporary Freedom
3. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria

Speak Easy, Stretford
06 May 2020
1. The Flowers
2. Hitching a Ride
3. Temporary Freedom

Write Out Loud, Stockport 
30 April 2020
1. Padlocks in Nothing
2. After Isolation

29 April 2020
Write Out Loud Bolton
1. Padlocks in Nothing.
2. Tandle Hill

26 April 2020
Spoken Passions
1. End of Summer I
2. End of Summer II
3. Breathless Postcard
4. Early Morning Affair

21 April 2020
April / May 2020
Homeless Charity Fundraiser (recorded with Amanda Steel)

Pieces recorded by me:
1. Longford Theatre
2. Hotel to Hotel
3. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
4. Edge of the Flames Part 1
5. Edge of the Flames Part 2
6. Edge of the Flames Part 3
7. Up on the Roof (Memories of Strangeway Riots)
8. Divorced Memories
9. The Streets were all we could see (Extracts)
10. Change in careers in your dreams
11. Conversation on the train
12. Early Autumn Affair
13. Percy
Can be streamed here and here

20 April 2020
Word on the Street with Jenny Berry
1. Hard Rock Village
2. Extracts from the Streets were all we could see
3. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire

16 April 2020
Countryside Poems Volume 1 (Andy N reading favouite countryside poems)
1. Vegetation (Kathleen Raine) 
2. The way through the woods (Rudyard Kipling)
3  Deer (John Drinkwater)
4. Lovelist of trees (A.E.Houseman)
5. Backyard Spring (Thomas Hardy)
6. Thaw (Edward Thomas)
7. An Answer (Alfred Austin)
8. The Rainy Summer (Alice Meynell)

14 April 2020
Speak Easy
1. When the poems begins to change
2. After the poem has changed

13 April 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. When the poem begins to change
2. After the poem has changed.
3. Rage
4. Hospital visit

12 April 2020
Printed Words Virtual Show
1. Longford Theatre

08 April 2020
Write and Release (on Zoom)
1. Neptune
2. Hotel to Hotel

07 April 2020
Poets Unlimited Podcast
1. The Highwayman's Daughter
2. The Streets were all we could see (Extracts)

Living Room Sessions Season 1 (March into April 2020)
1. Ghost of Liverpool Empire
2. Migration
3. Dripping in Sweat in Llandudno
4. The Streets were all we could see (Extracts 1)
5. The Streets were all we could see (Extracts 2)
6. Sister in a Box
7. Edge of the world with Billy Mckenzie

04 April 2020
NHS fundraiser
1. Edge of the World with Billy McKenzie
2. Bad Neil Young covers in Nanas attic
3. The Streets were all we could see (Extracts)
4. Kissing my every scent
5. Angel of the Meadow
6. Percy
Can be streamed here 

04 April 2020
Write and Release Mid afternoon readout (Zoom)
1. Change in career direction in dreams
2. Percy
3. Longford Theatre

02 April 2020
Write Out Loud Stockport (Zoom)
1. The Seventh Seal
2. Before the world went crazy
3. Edge of the world with Billy Mckenzie
4. The Streets were all we could see (Extracts)

01 April 2020
Speak Easy (Zoom)
1. Edge of the world with Billy McKenzie
2. The Streets were all we could see (Extract)

29 March 2020
Spoken Passions (Video)
1. Ghost of Liverpool Empire
2. Migration.
3. Unexpected change of weather.

28 March 2020
Write & Release -Mid afternoon poetry break 
1. Breathless Postcard
2. Dripping in sweat in Llandudno
3. The Highwayman's Daughter
4. Forgotten Exhibition

17 March 2020
Write Out Loud, Sale (Joint Headline Slot Online)
1. Under the soil
2. Dripping in sweat in Llandhudno
3. Longford Theatre
4. Run away with me in 7 words.
5. Inheritance Part 10

12 March 2020
Black Cat Poets, Denton
1. Breathless Postcard (Dreams of Brazil 1995 II)
2. Angel of the Meadow

08 March 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. No longer in the shadows
2. Neptune

04 March 2020
SpeakEasy, Stretford
1. No longer in the shadows
2. Angel in the Meadow

26 February 2020
Bad Language, Manchester
1. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil 1995)
2. In a lonely place

13 February 2020
Black Cat Poets, Denton
1. Inheritance VII
2. In a lonely place

10 February 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. In a lonely place (1)
2. In a lonely place (2)
3. Inheritance VII
4. Short Bicycle Poem 2
5. (Improvised Poem)

06 February 2020
WordCentral, Manchester
1. Run away with me in seven words (With Amanda Steel)

05 February 2020
Speak Easy, Stretford
1. Inheritance IV
2. Inheritance VII

01 February 2020
Winter Competition Event (Orton Manchester)
1. The Curious incident of the strange presents in the hotel car park

19 All FM Radio Session
1. Short Bike Poem 2
2. Skating in others expectations

13 January 2020
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Inheritance
2. Inheritance III

11 January 2020
Peterloo Poems by Manchester Book Launch
Peterloo

09 December 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
1. The night that Krampus died.
2. Ice ring at V Hotel
3. (Improvised Poem)

05 December 2019
Word Central, Manchester
1. The night that Krampus died
2. Inheritance

04 December 2019
Speak Easy, Stretford
1. The night that Krampus died
2. Inheritance

30th November 2019
The Making of Christmas
1. The night that Krampus died
2. Riding home with Father Christmas

27 November 2019
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. The night that Krampus died
2. Skating in others expectations
3. The way through Bluebell Woods

17 November 2019
Radio Show with Paul Jenkins (Whaffle)
1. Skating in others expecations
2. Run away with me in seven words

16 November 2019
Hannah's bookshelf with sarra culleno
(NB. Neither me or Amanda were actually on this show
but I texted Hannah to wish her good luck on air
and our name then came up on air quite a bit then
and is worth hearing)

11 November 2019
Write Out Loud Stockport
1. Run away with me in seven words (with Amanda Steel)
2. Percy
3. The way through Bluebell Woods
4.  (Improvised Poem)

10 November 2019
Sunday Assembly
1. Percy

06 November 2019
Speak Easy, Stretford
1. Run away with me in seven words (with Amanda Steel)
2. The Ghost of Stretford Cemetery

30 October 2019
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. Run away with me in seven words (with Amanda Steel)
2. The Ghost of Stretford Cemetery

14 October 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Dead Weight
2. Holding hands in the mist at Seaford waiting for the bus.
3. (Improvised Poem)

03 October 2019
Word Central, Manchester
1. Dead Weight
2. Above the weight of everything in Hebden bridge

02 October 2019
Speak Easy. Stretford
1. Billy's Rain (Hugo Williams)
2. Above the weight of everything in Hebden bridge

25 September 2019
Cuckoo calling
1. Dead Weight
2. Above the weight of everything in Hebden bridge


09 September 2019
A Nature's Way (Podcast)
1. Over the hillside
2. Unexpected change of weather

09 September 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Robot Hitchiker
2. Over the hillside

05 September 2019
Wordcentral, Manchester Central Library
1. Robot Hitchiker
2. Over the hillside

04 September 2019
Speakeasy, Stretford
1. Robot Hitchiker
2. Longfield Theatre

31 August 2019
Festival of Manchester
Platt Fields, Manchester
1. There is a light
2. Longfield Theatre

28 August 2019
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. Longford Theatre
2. The day Nicolae Ceausceu died

16 August 2019
Peterloo Soapbox,
Home Manchester
1. Peterloo
2. The day Nicolae Ceausecu died

12 August 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Peterloo
2. Unexpected change in weather
3. (Improvised)

07 August 2019
Singing and talking in tongues
Brick Box Room, Bradford
1. Ghosts into Negatives
2. Skating in others expections
3. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street

06 August 2019
Peterloo Poems by Manchester People
Manchester Central Library
1. Peterloo

31 July 2019
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. Remembering your father in Leeds
2. Peterloo

13 July 2019
Village Greens 5th Birthday bash
Prestwich
1. Percy
2. Dripping in sweat in Llandhuno

12 July 2019
Support slot to Isabelle Kenyon's Book launch
1. Ghosts into Negatives.
2. Threads of a Jumper
3. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street
4. Unplanned weekend in Blackpool
5. Reading the news with Ericia
6. Hidden 

08 July 2019
Write Out Loud,
Stockport
1. Hidden
2. Regret 

03 July 2019
Speakeasy,
Stretford
Manchester
1. Regret
2. Hidden

26 June 2019
Cuckoo Calling
Prestwich
1. Hidden
2. Stalked across Southport 

17 June 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Stalked across Southport
2. Extra Protection
3. (Improvised Poem) 

15 June 2019
Joy Division fundraiser
Bolton Socilist Club
1. Day of the Lords
2. Biographical note about Ian Curtis 

15 June 2019
Celebrate
Manley Park, Whalley Park
1. Migration 
2. Longford Theatre
3. Dripping in sweat in Llandhudno
4. Nebraska instead of born in the USA 

05 June 2019
Speakeasy, Stretford, Manchester
1. Michael
2. Nebraska instead of born in the USA
3. Stalked across Southport 

03 June 2019
Word Central, Manchester
1. Nebraska instead of born in the USA
2. Michael 

29 May 2019
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. Nebraska instead of born in the USA
2. Roots in the undertow of Clifton (Nottingham)

26 May 2019
Benjamin Gilfoyle Support
Prestwich Library
1. Migration
2. Roots in the undertow of Clifton (Nottingham)
3. Nebraska instead of born in the USA 

13 May 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Nebraska instead of born in the USA
2. Roots in the undertow of Clifton (Nottingham)

01 May 2019
Speakeasy, Stretford
1. Works Experience (1986)
2. Roots in the undertow of Clifton (Nottingham)

24 April 2019
Cuckoo Calling, Prestwich
1. Works Experience (1986)
2. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street 

13 April 2019
Exphastic Towers Concert
Stockport Art Gallery
1. The Great Escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters
2. On Horses minus their riders

07 April 2019
Write Out Loud Stockport
Stockport Art Gallery
1. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street
2. Mechnical misfire 

04 April 2019
Word Central, Manchester
1. Mechnical misfire
2. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street

03 April 2019
Speak Easy, Stretford
1. Nobody knew why
2. Crime of Fashion
3. Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street

27 March 2019
Cuckoo Calling, Prestwich
1. Witnessing the Colour of Spring with Mark Hollis
2. Nobody knew why
3. Crime of Fashion

11 March 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Witnessing the Colour of Spring with Mark Hollis
2. Dissolved Horses
3. First Kiss
4. (Improvised Poem)

07 March 2019
Word Central
Manchester Central Library
1.Witnessing the Colour of Spring with Mark Hollis
2. Dissolved Horses
3. First Kiss

06 March 2019
Speak Easy, Stretford 
1. Witnessing the Colour of Spring with Mark Hollis
2. Dissolved Horses
3. First Kiss 

27 February 2019
Cuckoo calling 
Prestwich, Manchester
1. Edge of the world with Billy Mackenzie 
2. The Great Escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters 

24 February 2019
Spoken Passions
The Station, Ashton Under Lyne
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil 1995)
3. The Great Escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters

23 February 2019
Hannah's Bookshelf
North Manchester FM
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil 1995)
3. The Great Escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters

11 February 2019
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. The Great Escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters
2. Longford Theatre
3. Horses minus their riders
4. (Improvised Poem)

7 February 2019
Word Central, Stretford
1. The great escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters
2. Longford Theatre

6 February 2019
Speak easy, Stretford
1. The great escape of the Irish Fairy Sisters
2. Longford Theatre
3. Forgotten Hero

30 January 2019
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. Study of successive New Years Eves
2. Forgotten Hero 

03 January 2019
Word Central, Manchester
1. Study of successive New Years Eves

17 December 2018
Verbose, Manchester 

1. The Curious incident of the strange Christmas Presents in the car park
2. Fireplace Elf
3. Santa Claus and the lack of affordable housing
 
12 December 2018
Marple Poetry reading, Marple
1. The Curious incident of the strange Christmas Presents in the car park
2. Study of a relationship through successive Christmas
3. Riding home with Father Christmas
4. The true meaning of Christmas


10 December 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. The Curious incident of the strange Christmas Presents in the car park
2. Study of a relationship through successive Christmas
3. Riding home with Father Christmas
4. (Improvised Poem)




06 December 2018
Word Central, Manchester
1. Riding home with Father Christmas
2. The Curious incident of the strange Christmas Presents in the car park




05 December 2018
Speakeasy, Stretford
1. The Curious incident of the strange Christmas Presents in the car Park
2. Riding home with Father Christmas
3. Fireplace Elf (with Amanda)

28 November 2018
Cuckoo Calling, Prestwich
1. Ever Wondered?
2. Percy

12 November 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Secret Affair
2. To die for one's country
3. (Improvised)

10 November 2018
St Matthews Church 
Remembrance Reading
Edegley, Stockport 
1. Dulce Et Decorum Est
2. To die for one's country
3. Percy

07 November 2018
Speakeasy, Stretford
Manchester
1. Secret Affair
2. To die for one's country
3. Percy

29 October 2018
Verbose
Manchester
1. The Highwayman's Daughter
2. Secret Affair

05 October 2018
Speakeasy
Manchester
1. A.I. Graveyard
2. First Home

04 October 2018
Word Central
Manchester
1. A.I. Graveyard
2. First Home

27 September 2018
Cuckoo Calling 
Prestwich
1. A.I. Graveyard
2. First Home

22 September 2018
Mark Sheeky Art Exhibition
Stockport Art Gallery
1. Wood on Water

14 September 2018
New Mills Art trail
1. Boarding a Rail Carriage at New Mills
2. Re-creating the Railway Children

10 September 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport
Stockport
1. A.I. Graveyard
2. Reading the news
3. First Home
4. (Improvised Poem)

06 September 2018
Time for Tea
Prestwich
1. Threads of a Jumper
2. Dripping in sweat in Llandudho
3. Hard Rock Village
4. Boarding a New Mills Carriage

05 September 2018
Speakeasy
Stretford
1. A.I. Graveyard
2. First Home
3. The Highwayman's Daughter

01 September 2018
Support slot to Julia Davenport
1. Dripping in sweat in Llandudho
2. Ghosts in Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
3. Hard Rock Village
4. Threads of a Jumper
5. Skating in others expectations
6. A.I. Graveyard

29 August 2018
Cuckoo Calling, Prestwich
1. The Missing Poet
2. Wood on Water

13 August 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Accidential weekend in Blackpool
2. Wood on Water

03 August 2018
ArtSwarm (S1 Ep.10: Dyslexia)  
1. Held Back

02 August 2018
Word Central
1. September in Brighton
2. Early Autumn Day out

28 July 2018
Bolton Diggers Festival
1. Threads of a Jumper
2. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
3. Skating in others expectations
4.  Dripping in sweat in Llandudno

26 July 2018
Interview with Welcome to Bolton Live

25 July 2018
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. The Swan
2. Under the Soil (with Amanda)

17 July 2018
Out Loud, Town Hall Tavern, Manchester
1. Threads of a Jumper
2. Ghosts into Negatives
3. Dripping in sweat in Llandudno

05 July 2018
Speakeasy, Stretford, Manchester
1. Three legged Race
2. Unplanned weekend in Blackpool

03 July 2018
Word Central, Manchester
1. Three legged Race
2. Unplanned weekend in Blackpool

27 June 2018
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1.Three legged Race
2. Unplanned weekend in Blackpool

21 June 2018
Langley Writers Workshop
(Co run by myself and Amanda Steel)

19 June 2018
Chapter One Podcast
1. Migration
2. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire
3. Out of Reach (I)
4. Out of Reach (II)
5. Enemy of the Wall (Extract)
Podcast be streamed / downloaded here

11 June 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
1. Dripping in sweat in Llandudno
2. Bad Neil Young covers in Nana's attic
3. (Improvised Poem)

07 June 2018
Speakeasy, Stretford
1. Dripping in sweat in Llandudno
2. Hardrock Village
3. Bad Neil Young covers in Nana's attic
4. Skating in others expectations

06 June 2018
Word Central, Manchester
1. Dipping in sweat in Llandudno
2. Threads of a jumper

30 May 2018
Cuckoo calling, Prestwich
1. Dripping in sweat in Llandudno
2. Bad Neil Young covers in Nana's attic

28 May 2018
Verbose, Fallowfield
1. Risking Bone
2. Photographing Fairies

14 May 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. The Moon from the Sun (For Passolini)
2. Ghosts into Negatives
3. (Improvised Poem)

13 May 2018
(Interview with Authors Interviews)

03 May 2018
Speakeasy, Stretford
1. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
2. Dockyard Ghosts
3. Interlude
4. Three short poems about Mark E Smith

02 May 2018
Word Central, Manchester
1. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
2. Photographing Fairies

25 April 2018
Cuckoo, Prestwich
1. Photographing Fairies
2. Interlude
3. Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)

12 April 2018
Speakeasy, Stretford
1. Photographing Fairies
2. Last scene of a Western split into two
3. Space graveyard
4. Museum of missed opportunities
5. Scrumping Arundel

09 April 2018
Write Out Loud, Stockport
1. Photographing Fairies
2. Space graveyard
3. (Improvised Poem)

05 April 2018
Word Central, Manchester Central Library
1. Space graveyard
2. Museum of missed opportunities
3. Recreating the Railway Children

21 March 2018
Cuckoo Calling, 
Prestwich
1. Recreating the Railway Children
2. When hell freezes over (with Amanda Steel)
3. Nightmare (with Amanda Steel)

17 March 2018
Hannah Kate Bookscase Radio Poetry Special
1.  Sister in a box
2.  The Highwayman's Daughter
3.  Skating in others expectactions

12 March 2018
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport
1. Premature Birth
2. Recreating the  Railway Chidren
3. (Improvised Poem)

28 February 2018
Cuckoo calling, 
Prestwich 
1. Premature Birth
2. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire

12 February 2018
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport
1. Three poems about Mark E Smith
2. My hometown
3. (Improvised Poem)

07 February 2018
Word Central
Manchester Central Library
1. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire
2. Three poems about Mark E Smith 

01 February 2018
Stretford Sip Centre
Stretford 
1. Three poems about Mark E Smith
2.  The Labourer of Q Bar

31 January 2018
Cuckoo Calling, Prestwich
1. Three poems about Mark E Smith
2. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria
3. The Ghost of Mayfield Station 

08 January 2018
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport
1. 1AM Car Mystery at Guide Bridge Train Station
2. Standing in your shadow
3. (Improvised Poem)

04 January 2018
Word Central 
Manchester Central Libary
Manchester
1. Edge of the world with Billy Mckenzive
2. Differences in years

13 December 2017
Cuckoo Calling 
Prestwich
1. Shortened Autumn Holiday
2. Skating in others expectations.

11 December 2017
Write Out Loud
Stockport 
1. Shortened Autumn Holiday
2. Kidnaping Father Christmas
3. Christmas Poem for Amanda
 
07 December 2017
Speakeasy
Stretford
1. Muhammad Ali and the Ghost girl of Stretford Mall
2. Pre Christmas Adventures

13 November 2017
Write Out Loud
Stockport
1. Muhammad Ali and the Ghost girl of Stretford Mall
2. Pre Christmas Adventures
3. (Improvised Poem)

03 November 2017
Word Central
Manchester 
1. The Highwayman's Daughter
2. Late Autumn Affair

09 October 2017
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport
1. From Friendship to Love (V)
2. Muhammad Ali and the Ghost girl of Stretford Mall

08 October 2017
Marsden Jazz Festival
Marsden
1, From Friendship to Love (V)
2. Threads of a jumper

27 September 2017
Cuckoo Calling
Prestwich
1. From Friendship to Love (V)
2. Muhammad Ali and the Ghost girl of Stretford Mall

11 September 2017
Write Out Loud, Stockport
Stockport Art Gallery 
Stockport 
1. Cousin in a box
2. Upon reflection
3. (Improvised Poem)

07 September 2017
Word Central
Manchester Central Library
1. Cousin in a Box
2. Brief Lives

30 August 2017
Cuckoo Calling
Prestwich
1. Cousin in a box
2. Scrumping Ardunel

16 August 2017
Marple Book Festival
Marple, 
Stockport 
1. Cousin in a box
2. Scrumping Ardunel
3. Skating across others expectations
4. Migration

14 August 2017
Write Out Loud Stockport
Stockport 
1. Scrumping Ardunel
2. Skating across others expectations

03 August 2017
Word Central 
Manchester Central Library 
1. Skating across others expectations
2. Scrumping Ardunel

31 July 2017
Hard Rain
Levenshulme
1. Child-less field
2. Schooltrip
3. Upon Reflection
4. Scrumping Ardunel

18 July 2017
Write Out Loud, Sale
Sale 
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Migration
3. Divorced Memories
4. Threads of a Jumper
5. Cousin in a box
6. Almost from the beginning
7. The End of Summer

15 July 2017
Bolton Diggers Festival
Bolton
1. Forgotten Hero
2. Cousin in a Box
3. Threads of a Jumper
4.  Divorced Memories

10 July 2017
Write Out Loud, Stockport
Stockport 
1. Sister in a box
2. Spears in your dreams
3. Skating inside out

05 July 2017
Word Central
Manchester Central Library
Manchester
1. Migration
2. Forgotten Hero
3. Sister in a Box

04 July 2017
Speaking in Tongues 
Oldham Library (Part of Oldham Festival)
Oldham
1. Migration
2. Forgotten Hero
3. Sister in a Box

26 June 2017
Hard Rain
Levenshulme 
Manchester
1. Spears over your dreams
2. Skating inside out
3. Sister in a box
4. Percy

25 June 2017
Spoken Passions
Ashton Under Lyne
1. From 1996 to 2017 (A brief history of tragedies
in Manchester)
2. Early Morning (For Hugo Williams)
3. Sister in a box

12 June 2017
Write Out Loud, Stockport
Stockport 
1. From 1996 to 2017 (A brief history of tragedies
in Manchester)
2. My Invisible Cat
3. (Improvised Poem)

03 June 2017
Ashton Library Reading
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. My Invisible Cat
2. Animals in their bags
3. A lesson in interesting reading
(Special Children's Poems reading)

08 May 2017
Write Out Loud, Stockport
Stockport 
1. The Swan
2. Underneath Secrets
3. (Improvised Poem)

13 April 2017
Speakeasy, Stretford
Stretford 
1. After the Storm
2. Early Morning

10 April 2017
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport
1. Late
2. Early Morning
3. Improvised Poem
4. After the Storm

26 March 2017
Spoken Passions, The Station, 
Ashton Under Lyne
1. Ode to John Lever
2. After the Storm
3. Surivors of the Wall (Extract)
4. Dear Teresa (with regard to David)

26 March 2017
Poets Corner, Witchwood, 
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. Ode to John Lever
2. The Highwayman's Daughter
3. From Friendship to Love
4. Longford Theatre
5. Travelling with Diabetes

22 March 2017
Tame Valley Acoustic, 
Dukinfield 
1. Ode to John Lever
2. Longford Theatre

20 March 2017
Write Out Loud 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Duty
2. From Winter to Spring
3. From Spring to Summer
4. (Improvised Poem)

18 March 2017
Ashton Library, 
Ashton Under Lyne
1. Duty
2. From Friendship to Love IV

14 March 2017
Out Loud, 
Ape, Mugger and Thief 
Manchester
1. Breathe
2. Travelling with Diabetes

09 March 2017
Speakeasy, 
Stretford
1. From Friendship to Love IV
2. Travelling with Diabetes

26 February  2017
Spoken Passions, 
Ashton Under Lyne
1. Duty
2. Travelling with Diabetes

13 February 2017
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport 
1. From Friendship to Love III
2. Surivors of the Wall

07 February 2017
Outloud, 
Ape, Mugger and Thief 
Manchester
1. From Friendship to Love III
2. Embracing Evil

03 February 2017
Speakeasy, 
Stretford
1. From Friendship to Love II
2. The Call Centre II

22 January 2017
Spoken Passions, 
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. From Friendship to Love II
2. Jazz record slightly off key II

10 January 2017
Out Loud, 
Ape, Mugger and Thief, Manchester
1. From Friendship to Love
2. The Call Centre II

09 January 2017
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
1. The Call Centre I
2. From Friendship to Love

04 January 2017
Speakeasy
Stretford
1. The Call Centre II
2. From Friendship to love

18 December 2016
Spoken Passions,
The Station,
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. 12 Days after Christmas
2.  Christmas present thank you letter
3.  The Snowman came alive
4.  Changing Stories. 

12 December 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Christmas present thank you letter
2. The Snowman came alive
3. Birth of Evil (aka The Origin of Billy the Kid)
4. Europa II (Part VIII)

01 December 2016
Speak Easy, 
Stretford 
1. Birth of Evil (aka The Origin of Billy the Kid)
2. Collaborating in Memory
3. 12 days after Christmas 

28 November 2016
Spoken Passions, 
The Station, 
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. Moonlight
2. Birth of Evil (aka The Origin of Billy the Kid)
3. Collaborating in Memory

16 November 2016
Write Out Loud
Stockport
Network Meeting
1. If the Art Galleries Shut

14 November 2016
Write Out Loud
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. The Ghost of Dukinfield Cemetery
2. The Highwayman's Daughter
3. Revenge of the Rancherer's Widow
4. If the Art galleries shut
5. (Improvised Poem)

11 November 2016
Write Out Loud
Stockport
D Day Reading
1. Percy

04 November 2016
Speakeasy
Stretford 
1. Magic (Part III)
2. The Ghost of Dukinfield Cemetery
3. In the Past

31 October 2016
Spoken Passions
The Station
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria
2. The Labourer of Q Bar
3. The Ghost of Dukinfield Cemetery

29 October 2016
Denton Library,
Denton, Manchester 
1. Enemy of the Wall (Extract)
2. The Ghost of Dukinfield Cemetery 


16 October 2016
Andy N reads the poetry of Eve S
1. Eve's tree
2. When I fall
3. When I fall (alternative - dark mix)

15 October 2016
North Manchester FM Interview
Monsall, Manchester 
1. Divorced Memories
2. Longford Theatre
3. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire
4. Extracts from Paul Auster, M R Carey and Hugo Williams
Interview and pieces can be heard here

10 October 2016
Write Out Loud, Stockport 
Stockport Art Gallery
1. Unopened Invitations 
2. Boat Story I
3. Boat Story II
4. Summer will rise again I
5. Summer will rise again II
6. (Improvised Poem)

09 October 2016
Huddersfield Jazz Festival 
Huddersfield
1. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire
2. Migration 

07 October 2016
Andy N reading Jean Sheridan Ellison
1. Raiding the Larder
2. Return to Burn
3. Untitled  

06 October 2016
Speakeasy, 
Stretford Sip Centre, Manchester
1. Siren Song (Hugo Williams cover)
2. Kissing my every Scent
3. The End of Summer

05 October 2016
Word Central
Manchester Central Library 
1. Migration
2. Divorced Memories
3. The End of Summer

26 September 2016
Spoken Passions
The Station, Ashton Under Lynne
1. Edge of the Flames III
2. Memories of the Moss Side Riots (1981)
3. Extract from I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
4. Past Lives

25 September 2016
Poets Corner, 
Witchwood, Manchester
1. Extract from I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
2. Past Lives
3. Siren Song (Hugo Williams Poem)
4. Un-opened Invitations
5. Edge of the Flames III

20 September 2016
Write Out Loud, Bolton
Bolton Socialist Club
Bolton
1. Past Lives
2. John
3. Threads of a Jumper

19 September 2016
Andy N reading Hugo Williams
1. Billy's Rain
2. Collarbone
3. Last time 
4. Lost Weekend
5. Rainy Night
6. Siren Song 

13 September 2016
Out Loud
Bandit, Mugger and Thief, 
Manchester
1. Up on the Roof (Memories of Manchester Strangeways Riots)
2. Past Lives

12 September 2016
Write Out Loud 
Stockport Art Gallery.
Stockport 
1. Past Lives
2. Birth of Autumn (I)
3. Birth of Autumn (II)
4. (Improvised Poem)

11 September 2016
Tony Andrews alldayer, 
TheStation, Ashton Under Lyne
1. Past Lives
2. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire

01 September 2016
Speakeasy, 
Stretford, Manchester
1. Conversation on the train
2. Threads of a Jumper

29 August 2016
Spoken Passions, 
The Station, Ashton Under Lyne
1. Flying South for Winter
2. Prologue (Part 0 - From Europa II)
3. John
4. Holidays to Wales II

21 August 2016
Poets Corner, 
Witchwood, 
Ashton Under Lyne
Manchester
1. Holidays to Wales II
2. Prologue (Part 0 - From Europa II)
3. Love
4. Conversation on the train
5. Revenge is a dish best served cold

20 August 2016
Denton Library, 
Denton
Manchester
1. Holidays to Wales II
2. Holidays to Wales
3. Threads of a Jumper
4. Summer will rise again (I)
5. Summer will rise again (II)

09 August 2016 
Out Loud, 
Manchester 
1. Divorced Memories
2. Threads of a Jumper

08 August 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport 
1. Swallowed Coastlines
2. Threads of a Jumper
3. Breathing in telescoped fears

31 July 2016
Darker Passions, 
The Station
Ashton Under Lyne
1. Divorced Memories
2. She walks in Beauty (expanded Bryon Poem with additional verses by Andy N)
3. Breathing in telescoped fears

30 July 2016
Diggers Festival, 
Bolton
1. Migration
2. Strangers in the night
3. For Stefan Kisko
4. Things had changed for good
5. Rescue the Stars

23 July 2016
Hannahs Bookcase (All FM) Poetry Radio Session
1. Migration
2. Things had changed for good
3. Rescue the Stars

17 July 2016
Poets Corner, Ashton Under Lyne
(Witchwood)
1. Rescue the Stars
2. Change
3. She walks in beauty
4. For Stefan Kiszko
5. Megabus to London
6. Edge of the Flames III

14 July 2016
Black Cat Poets, 
Thackerleys Books,  Denton
1. Migration
2. Rescue the Stars
3. Strangers in the Night

7 July 2016
Speakeasy
Stretford Sip Centre, 
Stretford 
1. Part 1 (from Europa II)
2. Mistaking Keats upon reflection
3. Strangers in the Night

26 June 2016
Darker Passions, 
The Station
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria
2. Strangers in the Night
3. Europa II - Part 2
4. Bringing flower built Jigsaws together

26 June 2016
Poets Corner, 
The Witchwood
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. Strangers in the Night
2. Europa II - Part 1
3. Dreaming of a different kind of realism
4. Mistaking Keats in reflection

13 June 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Strangers in the Night
2. Count the Stars
3. Sculping Ghosts
4. (Improvised Poem)

02 June 2016
Speak Easy, 
Sip Centre, 
Stretford
1. The Night before Whit Parade
2. The Day after Whit Parade
3. Count the Stars

28 May 2016
Denton Library
Denton   
1. The Night before Whit Parade
2. The Day after Whit Parade
3. Count the Stars
 
22 May 2016
Scott Cullen Steele Tour (Support slot)
The Station, Ashton Under Lyne

1. Migration
2. Forgotten Hero
3. Longford Theatre
4. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire

15 May 2016
Poets Corner
Witchwood, 
Ashton Under Lyne
1. The night of Whit Parade
2. Scan
3. The day after Whit Parade
4. Father

13 May 2016
Write Out Loud, Oldham
Oldham Library  
1. Forgotten Hero
2. The Tempest according to AN  

09 May 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Father
2. Scans
3. The Tempest according to Andy N
4. Dancing across Black Holes
5. (Improvised Poem)

06 May 2016
Speakeasy
Stretford Sip Centre
Stretford 
1. Almost from the Beginning
2. Dockyard Prayer

27 April 2016
Cuckoo Calling, 
Prestwich 
1. Dockyard Prayer
2. Notions in my head

24 April 2016
Poets Corner, 
the Witchwood
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. In a lonely room (Ian Curtis)
2, Shakespeare
3. The Tempest (Andy N version) Epilogue
4. The Tempest Epliogue (Shakespeare version)
5. Cindy
6. Cathy

16 April 2016
Denton Library Poetry Reading
Denton
1. The Tempest (Andy N version) Epliogue
2. Shakespeare Sonnet
3. Cindy

11 April 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Epliogue
2, Ghost Story III Part 1
3. A Fall of moondust
4. (Improvised Poem)

09 April  2016
Write Out Loud presents..
In the 60's Exhibition Open-mike
Stockport Art Gallery
1. The Other side of the 1960s
2. Diabetes in the 1960s

07 April 2016
Speakeasy, 
Stretford
1. Ghost Story III Part 1
2, Diabetes in the 1960s

26 March 2016
Write Out Loud presents..
In the 60's Exhibition Open-mike
Stockport Art Gallery  
1. Heroes of the Past
2. Gone, gone, gone (the lost history of Hulme)

14 March 2016
Write Out Loud,
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Ghost Story III – Prologue I
2. Make it easy on yourself (Scott in the 1960s)
3, For Neil Armstrong
4, Improvised Poem

06 March 2016
Poets Corner
Witchwood
Ashton Under Lyne
1. Ghost Story III – Prologue
2. Make it easy on yourself (Scott in the 1960s
3, For Neil Armstrong
4, Another Filling (Sophie Hannah)

03 March 2016
Speak Easy
Stretford 
1. Things had changed for good.
2. Inbetween stations with David Bowie

08 February 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport 
1. Inbetween Stations with David Bowie
2. The Pusher
3. Return to Gigging
4. Improvised Poem 1

06 February 2016
Drolysden Library, 
Droylsden
1. After the Storm
2. Dancing outside Stand M
3. Magic Story
4. Dreaming of somewhere else

04 February 2016
Speak Easy, 
Stretford. 
1. Things had changed for good
2. The Pusher

31 January 2016
Poets Corner, Witchwood, 
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. No Hard Feelings (Gary Morris cover)
2. The Pusher
3. Dancing at Stand M
4. Inbetween Stations with David Bowie
5. Winters Night (Gary Morris cover)


14 January 2016
Speak Easy, 
Stretford
1. Forgotten Hero
2. The Heaton Park Train Mystery 

11 January 2016
Write Out Loud, 
Stockport Art Gallery
Stockport 
1. Forgotten Hero
2. The Heaton Park Train Mystery 

03 January 2016
Poets Corner, 
Witchwood, 
Ashton Under Lyne 
1. Billy's Rain (Hugo Williams)
2. 12 days after Christmas
3. The Heaton Park Train Mystery
4. Dock Leaves (Hugo Williams) 
    14 December 2015
    Write Out Loud, 
    Stockport Art Gallery
    Stockport 
    1. 12 days after Christmas
    2. Copycats
    3. Remains of a Christmas day Beach Party
    4. (Improvised Poem)

    12 December 2015
    Guitar and Verse, 
    Tyldesley 
    1. Return to Kemptown
    2. Tandle Hill
    3. Leaving Belfast

    29 November 2015
    Poets Corner, 
    Witchwood
    Ashton Under Lyne
    1. The return of Sir Richard Grenville (Robert E Howard cover)
    2. Inventory found at the suicide of a poet
    3. First Christmas
    4. Boat Story I and II

    24 November 2015
    The East Manchester Stanza
    Stalybridge Train Station
    (Workshop which produced the 
    following poems for performance:)
    1. The last place on Earth (I)
    2. The last place on Earth (II)
    3. Eating the wrong food
    4. Ghosts of dead pirates

    14 November 2015
    Exhibition Launch
    Stalybridge Station
    Stalybridge
    1. Long way to Manchester
    2, Dreaming of somewhere else

    12 November 2015
    Speak Easy  
    Stretford Sip Centre
    Stretford
    1. Exile
    2. The Ghost of Q Bar

    9 November 2015
    Write Out Loud 
    Stockport Art Gallery
    Stockport 
    1. Dispersing Psoriais
    2. Love at Mayfield Station
    3. Dreaming of somewhere else
    4. (Improvised Poem)

    3 November 2015
    Manchester Psoriais Shout Out
    Video gig
    1. Dispersing Psoriasis
    2. Subtitling Psorasis

    25 October 2015
    Poets Corner, Witchwood, 
    Ashton Under Lyne
    1. Dispersing Psoriasiss
    2. Exile
    3. Mayfield Station Ghosts
    4. The ghost of the old labourer.

    12 October 2015
    Write Out Loud, 
    Stockport Art Gallery
    Stockport 
    1. Brighton in September
    2. Tangled in Movements
    3. (Improvised Poem)

    11 October 2015
    Marsden Jazz Festival Poetry Reading 
    Marsden
    1. Longford Theatre
    2. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria

    10 October 2015
    Droylsden Library, 
    Droyslden
    Manchester
    1. Brighton in September
    2. Dipped in Movements
    3. Ghosts of Manchester Victoria

    08 October 2015
    Speak Easy  
    Stretford Sip Centre
    Stretford
    1. Longford Theatre
    2. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire

    02 October 2015
    Love music - hate racism (refugees in calais), 
    Manchester
    1. New Cross Fire, Brixton, London 1981
    2. International Exiles
    3. The Day NC Died

    27 September 2015
    Poets Corner, 
    Witchwood, 
    Ashton Under Lyne 
    1. Longford Theatre
    2. Up on a Roof
    3. Nothern Melosoul
    4. Click of the Pen
    5. Chips

    26 September 2015
    Write Out Loud
    Stockport
    Stockport Art Gallery
    1. Lighthouses in the Mist
    2. Chained in Saffron

    19 September 2015
    Ashton Upon Lyne Library
    Ashton Under Lyne
    Manchester
    1. The Ghost of Liverpool Empire
    2. Click of the Pen
    3. Stonehenge Rescue
    4. Kissing my every scent
    5. Missing Summer

    14 September 2015
    Write Out Loud, 
    Stockport 
    1. Nothern Melosoul
    2. Jazz Record Cut Off Half Note
    3. Collaboration with Memory

    8 September 2015
    Speak Easy, 
    The Sip Centre, 
    Stretford 
    1. Migration
    2, Hard Rock Village
    3, Next Summer

    23 August 2015
    Poets Corner, 
    Witchwood, 
    Ashton Under Lyne
    1. Migration
    2. Hard Rock Village
    3. If I was a proper poet
    4. Boatman
    5. Autobiography

    22 August 2015
    Bolton Diggers Festival, 
    Bolton
    1. Migration
    2. For Manchester Council
    3. Hard Rock Village
    4. Tandle Hill

    11 August 2015
    Quiet Loud, 
    Quiet Loud, 
    Chorlton
    Manchester
    1. Migration
    2. The 7.39
    3, Kissing my every Scent
    4. Autobiography

    10 August 2015
    Write Out Loud, 
    Stockport Art Gallery
    Stockport 
    1. Autobiography
    2. Enchantment Poem 1
    3. Enchantment Poem 2
    4. (Improvised Poem)

    7 August 2015
    Mic Bytes, 
    Whalley Range, 
    Manchester
    1. Autobiography
    2. For Manchester Council
    3. Next Summer
    4. The Day NC Died

    (Some earlier performances can be heard / seen on my music page)


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