I have been awared a residency at the Irish Cultural centre in Paris. I will be staying there Jan, Feb & Mar 2010. Obviously I am very excited and alongside drinking coffee and being arty I will be working on pieces for my big band gig at Cheltenham Jazz festival and performing Steve Troman’s [...]
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On The Road and African Music night! - Posted January 19, 2009
Two great events coming up on Saturday 24th January.
The first is Steve Troman’s Beat Series Part II: A musical setting of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.. The performance of selected excerpts from the full work will take place in Lecture Room 1 of the Arts Building at Birmingham University at 14:30 on Saturday 24th January [...]
Gregory Corso’s Bomb! - Posted January 7, 2009
Happy New Year folks,
A great start to the New Year too. Tomorrow night I will be reciting Beat Poet Gregory Corso’s Bomb at the Yardbird as part of Steve Troman’s Beat Series.
If you are interested in good music and/or Beat generation poetry get down to the Yardbird, Paradise Place in Birmingham. I [...]
On The Road - Posted January 3, 2008
My first artistic activity of 2008 was working with Steve Tromans on a musical setting of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel “On The Road”. This is part of Steve’s “Beat Series” project which you can learn a bit more about here.
I was fortunate to narrate Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” for Steve and we had [...]
Howl - Posted April 26, 2006
I am typing this blog in England now and will be getting up tomorrow to go to Belfast to perform Steve Tromans setting to music of Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem Howl. This event is being presented as part of the Between The Lines Literary Festival at Crescent Arts Centre.
For me this is a sort [...]