latest news and views 9th May 2013

Dear all;

 

Sorry for the quietness but as always my life has been busy over the past month or two mostly sorting out my engagement do with Cathy.

 

However, have found time to squeeze in the following:

 

1)      My project with Amanda Silbernagel has been a little quiet as I know Amanda has been busy. However we are working on a remix which I hope to share next few weeks.

 

2)      Aside from a un-announced appearance at my engagement do, a means to an end have been quiet apart from doing 30 minutes at a night called words v music at the beginning of April. Next gig for me which will be another full set will happen at Open Mind at the end of June (More details to follow)

 

3)      Throughout April, as part of Napwimo (National Poetry writing month) I did a poem a day on this blog (http://30poemsin30days2013.blogspot.co.uk/) and printed them in a low key book (http://www.lulu.com/shop/andy-n/30-poems-in-30-days-2013/paperback/product-20998224.html) . Over this month I am hoping to get some time to sit down and start revising some of these.

 

4)      Guitar and Verse in May was a little quiet maybe, but it didn’t hide the quality of the acts on the open mike and also the excellent headline sets by my buddy in A Means to an End, Petrova Fairhust and a excellent new band Blue Zen. I did two poems on the night ‘Edge of the world with Billy McKenzie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvQ-ONu0gTo) and Final Poem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg9yvabhYxU). I am next performing at Write out Loud, Stockport next week and then at the end of the month (last Thursday) a charity reading for a gent called John Dawson as a fundraiser for Parkinson’s disease.

 

5)      Hopefully too, I will find time to return to my novel ‘the past’ among all this too.

 

videos from guitar and verse, manchester, april and may 2013

Here is video footage from the last two guitar and verse events in April and May 2013 featuring footage of most of the acts:

Guitar and Verse, Manchester, May 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvQ-ONu0gTo

(Andy N, Edge of the world with Billy Mackenzie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg9yvabhYxU

(Andy N – Final Poem)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1usFvQINpD8

(Blue Zen – Drifting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxti2O3mKB4

(Blue Zen – Broken Glass)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9nycABjlo

(Blue Zen – Sea Clearly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr3clJzT9Fo

(Joe the Ranter – the ballad of Joyce Carney aged 38)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDcU_xYGkvs

(Gordon Zola – autumn leaves)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-KJlc2R3g

(Deslexic – I await the day)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCYwaMI7Vag

(Arthur Chappell – bite)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7j0ac3YVsA

(Lauren Coulson – leaving home)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVj2y0U9bxk

(Lauren Coulson – festival)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFfevNtCBYU

(The nearly dead poets – unwelcome in the welcome inn)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXd5dP647L0

(Petrova Fairhurst / Andrew Blott – Forsooth!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNvVBypgHQI

(Petrova Fairhurst – the changling)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwdngeRLas

(Petrova Fairhurst – the legend of willow wight)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz8_V7L7SJs

(Petrova Fairhurst – regret)

Guitar and Verse, Manchester April 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdJvm2MTI0

(A Means to an end – forgotten her0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdJvm2MTI0

(Andy N – forgotten voices of the holocaust)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sGFohkemUs

(Lauren Coulson – untitled)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Q0xgk6lI4

(Lauren Coulson – from Manchester with love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zd3a9Fphs

(Antonioni – flying over Liverpool)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsMces5uH8

(Gordon Zola – labour’s in the shite)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vWEstK4F2I

(Baz – a boy named Kim)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-8stBT-DM

(Arthur Chappell – sheer naked terror)

http://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=KC6hMPwzsfo&ns=1

(Joe the ranter – I’m proud to be vegan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBqn4cxrUY

(Joe the ranter – Rochdale)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HkzDvefqJQ

(Tom George – dance with my shadow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W0UgEuW5UI

(Tom George – untitled)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GRxAov58I0

(the nearly dead poets and Tom George – Once I’ve been a woman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkE1c7fuK0w

(Nick armbister – Joan Jett)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pur23cgjHnA

(Nick armbister – only you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pY43dNhYbY

(Nick armbister – epica)

Hillsborough (tribute poem for the diaster in 1989)

 

Suspended in the
Silent, stubborn wind.

Rubber was split bent double
Across the pitch
Like an un-answered prayer.

Ghostly, dismantled
Across a sky of open wounds
Substituting noise for silence
Over lepping lane
With fear watching over
The scoreboards.

Memories dismantled across stands
And dissolved into a absence
Half rubbed out
With justice rattling
In the silence.

Justice.

(A short tribute to the terrible events which happened at Hillsborough)

The Echeleon Effect Remix

done some mastering for a remix by pal of the echeleon effect..

here it is

https://soundcloud.com/andynpoet/the-echelon-effect-tracking

poetry / music uploaded from recent nights

some poetry / music videos some featuring me took recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOeukw13gLU&feature=youtu.be
(A Means to an End - Leaving Belfast - March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bIMBx0ECE&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=8
(A Means to an End - Return to Kemptown - March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECKYgWOHtY&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=6
(Andy N - Revenge is a dish best served cold, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUByXC5Tcnc&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=5
(Andy N - Longford theatre, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQL_iS036s&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=4
(Andy N - Before the Curtains open, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmhLko0aNMI&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=3
(Andy N - Open Door closed, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqlsC-Zn8Zg&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=2
(A Means to an End - the ghost of liverpool empire, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EOnUcXK9bs&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=1
( A Means to an End - tracing places, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyzhndE0q8k&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=19
(Arthur Chapell, Guitar and Verse, February 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plFKx-wyIws&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=18
(Gordon Zola, Guitar and Verse, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbLC6UcqiHo&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=17
(Gordon Zola, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aBuSocBko&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=16
(Ushiku Crisafulli, Guitar and Verse March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rJUtSykYk&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=15

(Ushiku Crisafulli, Guitar and Verse March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOQ_d64Rnw&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=14

(A Means to an End - tracing Planes - Guitar and Verse, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFEb6YRHjA&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=13

(Andy N - open door closed, Guitar and Verse, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97SnyreYQq8&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=11

(Tony Sheridan, Performance, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p6xEJermog&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=10

(Nick Armbister, Guitar and Verse, March 2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Qz2tGNDNE&list=UUSnVliEClzutG1pg9S1Bgwg&index=9

(Rob Goodier, Performance, March 2013)

latest news and views - 2nd march 2013

Hi all;

Hope you are good and enjoying the what I hope is the beginning of Spring as

Certainly after the constant little bits of snow and frozen I have had enough of winter totally for this time.

Creative wise, it has been quite a active month in several ways.

First of all, probably in March viva bandcamp a series of old recordings (I think around the 2010 mark) with one brand new recording will be released as a free download of me with a ambient band called Poortosh. Hopefully over Easter – I will start work on some other tracks with it as I have a better studio set up now.

Also, my work with Amanda Silbernagel although currently quiet (Amanda is

Busy with her studies). When she finishes for half time probably next month, am hopeful we will be able to crack on further with this and get a EP on the way fairly soon (ish).

My main band ‘A Means to an End’ finally made it back to the stage at the beginning of the month when we did a 15 minute set at Guitar and Verse in Manchester which can be seen here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4z7d28xTXQ

(Next stop for the band will be doing a set in April for a night called Words V Music)

I haven’t done anything performance wise by myself this year now (solo poetry).

Didn’t end up going to Write out Loud, Stockport last month but I will be back there on 11/03/2013 with at least three new poems with me (one of which I am currently still working on).

After that, I will be performing in Tyldesley at a night called ‘Performance’ on Friday 22 March 2013 where I’ll be doing probably 15 minutes or so of poetry and I am hoping my band will also be there to sneak in a few songs. (Not decided on the setlist yet).

Writing wise, I have managed to write a few poems this year including ‘tracing planes’ which will be debuted shortly with A Means to an End and a major rewrite of a old Words and Music (my first band) called ‘The one that got away’ is with the guys and I am hoping will be finished with the guys over the next month / three whenever. Hopefully both of these will be in A Means to an End book two (Out next year I think).

I am still progressing work slowly on my next poetry book ‘the end of summer’. I did a test print of the book at the end of last year which had 28 poems listed for it and since then, I’ve now added another two, maybe three for it and have a few ideas for a few others in my head besides wanting to do a bit of re-editing to it (in particular one called ‘Open Door Closed’ which looks almost completely different and has been submitted to Best of Bolton 2013).

I’ve also just had a pretty successful writing workshop for the workshop I co run with Manda Lee, Writers of the third kind last week which produced drafts of 4 poems, 3 of which are likely to appear in either Love Songs for Cathy V or maybe The End of Summer with a nice comical one which I will hold back for a comedy book maybe in the future. Next workshop is 27/03/2013 @ the Sweet Green tavern near Bolton train station from 7pm.

All welcome as normal and as normal there will be no admission!

Publishing wise, two poems have been accepted for publication. One in a publication called ‘County of last things’ who at the end of March will be publishing ‘The End of Summer IV’ and in April I think, Puppywolf Press will also be publishing a new poem called ‘Bodies in open tombs’ for their annual Best of Manchester Poets Volume 3 (Will hopefully be at their launch).

As soon as I get more news with confirmed dates etc, I will of course be attending but don’t forgot in the meantime, Guitar and Verse a week tomorrow (7^th March 2013) headlined by the excellent Shaun Hunter's Quiet Rebellion with a poetry slot from Indigo at Gulliver’s, Manchester. 

Almost from the beginning (New Poem)

The first few times we met

Was under a crossing of invisible bridgesWatching the boats setting outFor distant isles,Plunging our loveInto a monochromeOf steered moonlight.

The first few times
Was buried in half baked clues
Pressed tight in your eyes
And whispered words
Sometimes lost
Under droning boats
But never your intent,

Or the way you said

you loved me almost

from the beginning. 

(Poem from personal ebook of love poetry for my partner

This can be seen here - http://www.lulu.com/shop/andy-n/love-songs-for-cathy-iv/paperback/product-20646811.html)">http://www.lulu.com/shop/andy-n/love-songs-for-cathy-iv/paperback/product-20646811.html)