Speak Easy Readers - September 2023

 

Enclosed below is the list of readers for the next Speak Easy
(Our spoken word open mic) returning after our summer break
on Thursday 07 September 2023 at Dulcimer, Chorlton.

The night should start around 7.30pm and we have the following
readers booked in (This is not the running order) -
all of which will entertain with 4-minute slots.

To go on the subs list / check I've not missed you off
- please email Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

Andy Npoet

Steve Smythe

Danny McLoughlin

Italo Ferrante

David Bond

Andy Cash

Joe Tetley

Gordon Zola

Drew Garty

Joseph Marsh

Martin Elder

Thomas Butterworth

James Jackson

Michael Burton

Roy Page

Tony Rogers

Ryan Sherlock

Amanda Nicholson

Amy Langley

Eve Nortley

Sara Jayne Haq

Marigold Lately

Siobhan Hoy

Penny Sharman

Cordelia Birkbeck

Arvo Dabiri

Leon Johnson

Trystan Lewis 

New Spoken Label Session - Michelle Steiner

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Michelle Steiner, Michelle Steiner is a disability, writer, advocate, and paraeducator. She published articles on The Mighty, Non-Verbal Learning Project, Dyscalculia Blog, The Reluctant Spoonie, Imagine the World as One Magazine, and Word Gathering. Recently she began a blog called Michelle’s Mission. Her photographs were featured in Word Gathering and Independent and Work Ready. She works as a paraeducator in a school with students with disabilities. She lives in The United States with her husband and two cats.

Her website is: https://www.michellesmission.net/

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/michelle-steiner-spoken-label-august-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/michelle-steiner-spoken-label-august-2023/id1501847969?i=1000625233595

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Michelle-Steiner-Spoken-Label--August-2023-e26haoc

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/MDY3NzMyMDMtMmMwZS00YWEwLWE5YWYtMGUzYmJmZTNhMDg2?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQ_7CX5_qAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdPMug2aB2U (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd-ZWeNu0Sg&t=1s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/a2a4cf4b-a238-4d26-b03e-9e96894146b8/spoken-label-michelle-steiner-spoken-label-august-2023

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Michelle-Steiner-Spoken-Label-August-2023-Podcast/B0CFGB92BQ?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_1&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=9WEATC0CPD9X464ZCH4B&pageLoadId=GemwAdo5MdT0Bbzn&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwak5jvgno1iebQPuKmQh6ZXzlCl-WFZMwEzZU0/ (Reading Segment)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwak_aVsGxlZBJfQ0KBDjoJxxxYI6Ofg-W_9YM0/

(Chat Segment)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DKlI3oqHGFebfv4DjXcGq

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/michelle-steiner-spoken-label-august-2023

D.I.H. and friends @ Christmas 2023 submissions open

 

Back again for its 21st anniversary (Barring a few gaps of course) and its 18^th album somehow, DIH and Friends at Christmas are now opening their doors on a submission call out for ambient, drone, metal, singer-songwriter, experimental and poetry to name but a few genres (all welcome really) on the theme of Christmas.

The history of the project from Digital Vomit states ‘The origin behind the infamous series of DIH with friends at Christmas began back in 2002 when for a one-off joke as a side project from his more official work in DIH, Andy N one year decided with the help of one or two friends decided to do in his words ‘ A Christmas album for those people who don’t really like Christmas’ where in the space of half an hour (as was the original plan) – Andy and a few friends would murder, cripple and take the piss out of as many songs as they could.

However, as is the nature of the beast with this sort of thing things snowballed and by the time the second album came along, It had become officially a DIH project where they would between the three of them alongside an ever-increasing cast-off friends playing around with the myth of the Christmas, which will often be funny and sad sometimes within the same breath.

The music contained within this series of albums is varied and can vary from spoken word (sometimes with musical backing or experimental backing), acoustic singer-songwriter stuff to music that could appeal to fans of Aphex Twin, hardcore, breakbeats, dubstep, fans of the spoken word, re-imagining of carols and classic songs, faithful versions of Christmas carols and songs and generally people who like their music to challenge and make them think.

For reasons too long-winded and just plain boring to go into here, DIH took a break from the Christmas albums in 2012 before starting up again in 2015. Following on from their 2015 comeback, we are now expecting submissions for our 2023 album, our fifth album since starting up again with anything and everything encouraged from experimental, drones, ambient, Christmas Carols, Poems, songs... whatever takes your fancy really.

Please send submissions to Andy N at aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk if you are using Wetransfer etc, please include a cover note. Please submit in a WAV format if possible.

Me and Keith can also be contacted via Facebook for further questions 

https://www.facebook.com/andynpoet/ (Andy)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=627682972 (Keith)

The complete archive can be sampled here - http://www.digitalvomit.com/dih-and-friends. 

The album will be released on Hicc Records on https://hicc.bandcamp.com/

The closing date is 09 December 2023 

New Spoken Label Podcast - Krystal Gypsy Orellano

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poet / Author Podcast) features our returning friend, Krystal Gypsy Orellano.

A Tampa, Florida native, Krystal “Gypsy” Orellano Weldon is a spoken word poet, writer, and educator. She is known around the Tampa Bay community as an open mic artist, has been in features such as Pinot & Poetry: A Toast to Herstory and got her start at the USF Poets. Krystal is slowly transpiring as a creative nonfiction writer, being published in St. Petersburg College’s newspaper The Sandbox, Saint Leo University’s book the Sandhill Review and University of Westminster runner-up winner for the 2017 Mental Health Poetry competition. She has currently published three collections of poetry "The Evolution of Poetry", "Quench" and "Looking into the Reflection of a Biracial Afro-Latina".

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/krystal-gypsy-orellano-spoken-label-august-2023

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast?fbclid=IwAR2JXGZo8k4cY9wLaU9x5R-N_6MclwYbae_4C9m3MSW5BqjndCOOyrza5Z8

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Krystal-Gypsy-Orellano-Spoken-Label--August-2023-e26e9da

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI0_CE4AJBg&t=48s (Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m05ZlHuFWA (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwHpINBt0BLXk7HFirx805pW5KBbjtd7DdGa400/ (Spoken Word)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwHo96UsYwYSgoajXbx-J65VMFbMuTbBfTduOE0/ (Interview)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Spoken-Label-Podcast/B08K5Z65R1?qid=1638096875&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=S1Y5JH4EPW490EZKWFH8&fbclid=IwAR1FWGPFjGnXYklW9sCdLcchpikC965bwtYYLH0WJ788uylh_rS6LViddWM

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Y1sLdOERXyx7DxGFe9BhW

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/krystal-gypsy-orellano-spoken-label-august-2023

and all of the usual places  

Unplanned weekend in Blackpool (From Changing carriages in Birmingham New Street)

 

The latest piece on my substack account is a second piece from my new10th and final full-length poetry book ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’.

As discussed before, Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’ was began in 2017 during the creation of my third book “The Birth of Autumn” which then took a life on its own afterwards.

The story itself talks through a series of memories told by an unnamed narrator of firstly of a friendship he had growing up with a girl called Sarah who came back into his life after over a twenty-year gap with the pair of them in deeply unhappy marriages changing everything forever.

Inspired by the clarify in Hugo Williams's book dock leaves and the expressive nature of Paul Auster’s poetry, this book will take the reader on a series of journeys up and down the northwest of England and beyond using their adventures in towns and cities to show how everything changes often without realising.

The second piece ‘Unplanned Weekend at Blackpool’ is one of the earliest poems written for this book and one of the starkest also talking of a weekend away early in the relationship for the couple when a night out in Blackpool went out in a very unexpected way.

The piece can be read here: https://andyn.substack.com/p/unplanned-weekend-in-blackpool

Hopefully the book will be out shortly.

Artwork is by Amanda Nicholson

New Spoken Label Session - Phoenix Andrews

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) and featuring Amanda Nicholson as special guest co-host features the debut of a longstanding friend of ours, Phoenix Andrews. Phoenix advises he is a "writer living in West Sussex, UK. I started out as a musician, playing piano, writing and recording songs, but soon fell in love with writing poetry and short stories. This has since progressed into novels. I am passionate about writing in the genres of crime fiction and horror and my first published book, Blood Cells is pure testimony to this. Based around a small group of central characters, I have included as a dark element of conspiracy which, I have to confess, is another guilty pleasure of mine, however farfetched! Don't worry, I don't believe everything I read. Blood Cells is the first in a series of novels centered around these characters, with a dark, supernatural theme running through them which goes high up to the top levels of government. I hope you enjoy the thrilling ride!" He can be emailed at ppapublishing@gmail.com Facebook - www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091862503703 Tiktok @phoenixandrews His book can be purchased on Amazon etc. *

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-andrews-spoken-label-august-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/phoenix-andrews-spoken-label-august-2023/id1501847969?i=1000623876838

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Phoenix-Andrews-Spoken-Label--August-2023-e26f27d

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/NTNiMmMyMWUtNmU1MC00M2Y5LWFkMzQtNGY5YWE3MDQxMmY4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiIgeygldeAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjs3o-C2dqQ&t=3s

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/fb494bbc-c685-4302-8802-2651d63b08b5/spoken-label-phoenix-andrews-spoken-label-august-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv2GieROIwHnggWCLLrKaIQj_pM_6An015vCQs0/

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Phoenix-Andrews-Spoken-Label-August-2023-Podcast/B0CBTQQN54?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=026CMAZ65VWGSBEF3WJ9&pageLoadId=dub4zlEW59cTPdUT&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1coFo1Bhv6sT8Ww3jlyVKM

New Spoken Label Session - Stephen G. Eoannou

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poet chat) Podcast features from Buffalo, New York the amazing Stephen G. Eoannou.

He is the author off Yesteryear (SFWP 2023), Rook (Unsolicited Press 2022), and the short story collection Muscle Cars (SFWP 2015). He has been awarded an Honor Certificate from The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Best Short Screenplay Award at the 36th Starz Denver Film Festival, and the 2021 Eyelands International Book Award for Historical Fiction. Eoannou holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and an MA from Miami University. He lives and writes in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, the setting and inspiration for much of his work.

His website is: www.sgeoannou.com

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Can be streamed/downloaded from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/stephen-g-eoannou-spoken-label-august-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/stephen-g-eoannou-spoken-label-august-2023/id1501847969?i=1000623222404

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Stephen-G--Eoannou-Spoken-Label--August-2023-e25stss

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/MmRmMWU2NDYtMTE4MS00OTYyLTg1ZWMtMGZlNzBjZWM4MThh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjgspTausaAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQz4Yutoo-U&t=1s (Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6IpwzzGWr4 (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/7050f5a3-b16e-49cc-a715-e0b18ae29374/spoken-label-stephen-g-eoannou-spoken-label-august-2023 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvk3eQYLx_z4N0e7OtvU0qXqbDQGxZDeA3rLDg0/ (Interview)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvk8KuLuzfh7CsiLczWHiCMg0-_d5mXtmcnMek0/ (Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Stephen-G-Eoannou-Spoken-Label-August-2023-Podcast/B0CDBQKB2K?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=J53AAGBVJ9Y48NMRWRV4&pageLoadId=88qN5slWhrWREWcG&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Gq0hKIFBq4wAuGLFGrXQN

and all the usual places