Saturday, 28 September 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Toki Ward (Onion Mash)

 












Latest up from Spoken Label features Toki Ward from the band Onion Mash.

Onion Mash are a 4 piece female-fronted melodic (mainly) hard-rock band formed in 2021, but as the name suggests, their music is a mash up- a little bit hard-rock, heavy metal elements off melodic, even a little punk with raw emotional vocals, big personalities and plenty of hooky riffs.

More details:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081500374600

(Toki's guitar page)

https://www.facebook.com/OnionMashofficial

(Onion Mash facebook)

https://www.instagram.com/onionmashband/

(Onion Mash Instagram)


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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/toki-ward-onion-mash-spoken-label-september-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/toki-ward-onion-mash-spoken-label-september-2024/id1501847969?i=1000670487598

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Toki-Ward-Onion-Mash-Spoken-Label--September-2024-e2m260m

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/daa46cdd-562e-4605-85f9-bff4ddf5cc91/spoken-label-toki-ward-onion-mash-spoken-label-september-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Toki-Ward-Onion-Mash-Spoken-Label-September-2024/B0DHV1DP9G?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=6M8ZKX0CZ4S2R70EMK1E&pageLoadId=0E8lyIIPxoIwnaVh&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CElSpeYhEtWlv5yu3bHeJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stnkd6D4tK0 (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRa430fBFzE (Part 2)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAdKOcZta6_PRL-UbxmOE-L7se_j6NVn8KmZ_M0/ (Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAdKUrIMmO5f9FUIAj2rocXQ9QdBQk_qTYmMGo0/ (Part 2)


Sunday, 22 September 2024

Speak Easy Readers - Thursday 03 October 2024

 









After a month's break for September, Speak Easy (our spoken word
open mic night) will be back at Dulicmer, Chorlton on Thursday 03
October 2024 where we will have the following readers all performing 4 minute segments of their work.

Andy N
Kevin Bamford
Phillip Fowler
Andy Cash
Michael Burton
Gordon Zola
Sean Stapleton
Chris Platt
David Bond
Joe Tetley
Nathan Russell Williams
Norman Dearlove
Martin Elder
Amanda Nicholson
Becky May
Noemi Scotellaro Massimi
Polly Anna Rose
Lucy Power
Jo Somerset
Steph Cater
Wendy Stephens
Anne Delargy
Heather Skowood
Lydia J Williams
Lindy Newns
Sharon McCarthy

If you wish to go on the cancellation list in the event of slots
becoming possibly available, email Andy N at aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk.

The event starts around 7.30pm. Free Admission.

All Welcome.
It is advised seating can fill up, so if you wish for a seat get there
promptly.


Saturday, 21 September 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Unspoken


 










Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features Unspoken.

Unspoken is a Tampa poet, actor, host, workshop facilitator and member of the Growhouse Collective who has performed throughout the US both professionally and competitively. A 2nd Generation American, much of Unspoken's writing deals with being Latino in the U.S. and the nature of identity. Unspoken also writes about mental health through the lens of his own experiences in the hopes that people with both internal and external struggles can relate to what he went through and feel someone can understand whatever they're going through. When he isn’t writing, Unspoken likes to plan vacations he can't afford, rewatch Scrubs a concerning number of times, and agonize about not writing.

Unspoken is also working on his debut poetry collection, Unspoken Perspectives, out soon.

More on Unspoken can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/anunspokenpoet/

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/unspoken-spoken-label-september-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/unspoken-spoken-label-september-2024/id1501847969?i=1000669621387

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Unspoken-Spoken-Label--September-2024-e2mi3l7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6d2owgFiFY&t=191s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXRYxVHY88&t=27s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/53cbdaed-065d-4d9c-ba8c-2956762f6517/spoken-label-unspoken-spoken-label-september-2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAL3AXxOvaN8GQDt2N1DeejexyjOhfTgLBuHbU0/ (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAL3RbYMGqG77X0vr4EFk75TdkG4w2DIS2y8Jc0/ (Chat)

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Unspoken-Spoken-Label-September-2024/B0DFYX19KK?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=RZP807XD3XDVQR3WRTNM&pageLoadId=jYWfGK2BUq0akHZh&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pITk8gQx0Ntz8lXdLAtJR


Monday, 16 September 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Hayley Lynn Gordon


 










Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features making her debut, the amazing Hayley Lynn Gordon.

Hayley is a mother of 2 and a spoken word artist, known as, Twisted Tales and was born and raised in Anfield, Liverpool. She writes about motherhood, love, heartache, co-parenting, grief, addiction, mental health and random stuff e.g. about her cat eating ham!

She started a project in 2023 that involves incorporating music with spoken word and is on the look out for musicians to collaborate with in the future.

Her poetry journey began in July 2021, when she saw a post from "A Lovely Word" advertising an open mic night. She finally found the courage to stand up in St James' Gardens and read "Lemonade Grenade" for the first time, to far more people than she expected. Since then, Hayley's life has been a rollercoaster and she's found writing helps her navigate through lifes ups and downs. Music is a big passion and she has been inspired by many artists, such as Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, Paramore, The Cure, Prince, Marilyn Monroe many more.

Hayley is also one of the many women platformed by Claire Berry's popular "Fem De La Femme Comedy and Spoken Word" events at The Everyman, Liverpool. This amazing comedy night also raises money for various women's organisations within the Merseyside area every 3 months and is so proud to be apart of an organisation that empowers women and also gives back to the comminity.

Hayley mainly performs her poetry with "A Lovely Word" at "The Everyman" and "Word Vomit" at "Round The Corner". She performed during the poetry festival hosted by "A Lovely Word" and "Unusual Art Sourcing Company" in Liverpool for the launch of their poetry zine during June and July 2024, whilst also competing at "A Lovely Word Slam Competition" at the Shakespeare North Playhouse (2023) and The Everyman (2024).

Hayley also recently hosted an intimate poetry reading with the local community in Dovecot MAC and had a ball whilst being interviewed by Andy NPoet for his podcast "Spoken Label".


All links for other sources and credits below:


@alovelyword - www.alovelypoetryfestival.uk

@femdelafemme_comedy - www.femdelafemme.com

@unusualartsourcing

@andynpoet - Spoken Label Podcast

@liveveryplay - www.everymanplayhouse.com  


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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/hayley-lyn-gordon-spoken-label-september-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spoken-label/id1501847969

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Hayley-Lyn-Gordon-Spoken-Label--September-2024-e2mau9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLBmO7Dh23Y&t=117s (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4kxVpeC3HU (Part 2)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/a4286a3b-e831-40ff-b340-c92caeccbba2/spoken-label-hayley-lyn-gordon-spoken-label-september-2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C__DOCPu46nop6CxMbdyQsaf_Q9RvqDn-OexaI0/ (Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C__DUblOegvTeMII6G2-XEGp7jAmzJqAzNWRPY0/ (Part 2)

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Hayley-Lyn-Gordon-Spoken-Label-September-2024/B0DGL66BJ3?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=W18WN30AB43QCNN03RWE&pageLoadId=VN0UtoMfRiv9h9y9&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_1

https://open.spotify.com/episode/38qZr8DBXmnKQOqZo3dhFL


Sunday, 8 September 2024

New Spoken Label Session - Lynne Thompson

 










Latest Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut, Lynne Thompson.

Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 2021-22 Poet Laureate and received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

She is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Beg NoPardon, Start With A Small Guitar, and Fretwork, winner of the 2019 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Thompson is the recipient of multiple awards including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles, the Tucson Literary Festival Poetry Prize, the Steven Dunn Poetry Prize, the George Drury Prize, as well as fellowships from the Summer Literary Series, Kenya, and the Vermont Studio Center. An attorney by training with a J.D. from Southwestern Law School.

Thompson sits on the Boards of Cave Canem, The Poetry Foundation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. In June 2022, she completed her four-year service as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Scripps College, her alma mater. Thompson’s recent work can be found or is forthcoming in the literary journals Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, The Common, Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, and Copper Nickel, among others.

Her Website is the following: - www.lynnethompson.us

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Can be streamed / downloaded from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/lynne-thompson-spoken-label-august-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spoken-label/id1501847969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AGwLicA6bE

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/channel/ (Link to follow)

https://podcasters.spotify.com/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Lynne-Thompson-Spoken-Label--September-2024-e2lpm6o

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Lynne-Thompson-Spoken-Label-September-2024/B0DG38Z52C?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=8MV5GFCX9F8P2FRTWX7Y&pageLoadId=FZMIAbnqDfFrOIFp&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ogyRGtShE3AFHyOpGOH4s

Sunday, 1 September 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Christine Stoddard

 












The latest up from Spoken Label (Artist / Writer / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend, Christine Stoddard.

Christine is a writer, filmmaker, and artist named one of MSN's Top 10 Inspirational Women to Look Out for In 2024, one of Brooklyn Magazine's Top 50 Most Fascinating People, and a Ms. Magazine "Ms. Muse." Her critically-acclaimed work includes the stage play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares," the feature films "Sirena's Gallery" and “Her Garden,” the TV show "Badass Lady-Folk," the books Desert Fox by the Sea and Belladonna Magic, the documentary “The Persistence of Poe,” short films such as "Uncontested," "Bottled," and "De Colores (Chorus of Melancholy)," and the publication Quail Bell Magazine. 

She is also the co-host of “Don’t Mind If I Don’t,” a comedy TV show with Aaron Gold. Her painting, photography, and performance/video art have appeared at the Queens Botanical Garden, Irondale Theatre, The Elisabet Ney Museum, The Old Stone House, Howard County Art Center, and elsewhere. She was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, as well as part of landmark AIR cohorts at the Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch and Woodlawn Estate. She has studied documentary film and oral history at Columbia University, interdisciplinary art at The City College of New York, and libretto writing at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Born to a Salvadoran mother and Anglo-American father, she grew up in Virginia as the eldest of three.

More details about Christine can be found at: http://www.worldofchristinestoddard.com/

Can be streamed / downloaded from: 

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/christine-stoddard-spoken-label-august-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/christine-stoddard-spoken-label-august-2024/id1501847969?i=1000666883664

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Christine-Stoddard-Spoken-Label--August-2024-e2lo7i6

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-I9nXQsSbo (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/ffc6ef4a-efa7-4c4c-b07b-5a48637f4ba3/spoken-label-christine-stoddard-spoken-label-august-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Christine-Stoddard-Spoken-Label-August-2024/B0DFH838JG?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=6PXVWG39G8RT664KXRTV&pageLoadId=6KSDdL0Of9Dz0WCA&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_Xhf2-NCTXNjMNKJPJPxe3Dd5Cgz-WxaBAK200/ (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_XikzoRxmTZ8lfhQVBktSbT8r40r7vdXTY3NY0/ (Chat)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jAgETVGDM2D5T7QWEZ1Ho