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 […]
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 will […]
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 many memorable […]
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 […]