Spring has sprung!
Paul joins Animal Antiks once more, this time bottle feeding this season’s abandoned lambs. Meet Freckles, Roxy, Twinkle, Bugs and Fifty!
50 and Fifty!
Paul at 50!
Paul Eccentric turns 50 this year so fully intends to celebrate accordingly with a mini tour!
1) PERCH POETRY at Perch and Co, Watford Road, Croxley Green. WD3 3BZ
Wed 22nd of March ’17 from 8pm. Free entry!
An open mic’ poetry event featuring guest headliners:* SPOZ* Fay Roberts* SP and * Shadwell Smith
with your hosts: Paul Eccentric & Poeterry.
Sign up to perform from 7.30pm or text 07921764712 to reserve your spot.
2) THE ODDS return for a special one-off performance at The Horns, Watford on the 30th of March 2017. Featuring special guest drummer Spike Webb, back behind the kit for the first time 1985!
3) Paul Eccentric and Russell Brand at The Watford Colosseum on 6th April from 7.15pm.
4) POLKABILLY CIRCUS at The Horns, Watford from 9pm on 10th of April. Free Entry.
5) THE ANTIPOET cd Launch, the 6th collection, ‘We Play For Food’. The album will be performed in its entirety plus the best of the rest. 12th April. From 8pm at The Cock, Stony Stratford. Free entry and cake!
6) TEA SHOP TALES Special, ‘The Simons and Me’. Comedic short stories with Mezza! Perch and Co 13th April from 8pm. £5 on entry.
7) Rounding off his 50th Birthday tour (and then on to the festival season) The Antipoet open for ADAM ANT at Watford Colosseum on 24th May.
Have yourself a Merry……………….
And a Christmas message from Paul. Have a good one people!
DOES IT COME IN PUCE?
Adverts, adverts, adverts,
but for nothing I want to buy:
all arthouse wank and cryptic;
fuckin’ Christmas must be nigh…
‘We’ve spent the equivalent of a high scoring Scrabble-named country that you couldn’t point to on a map’s annual GDP on a television ad’ campaign designed to ensure that you know exactly which high performance car to stuff into your loved one’s stocking this Christmas and which minuscule application of coloured water in a collectible bottle/box combo (that cost more to manufacture than the pissy liquid inside it did) to douse him/her with in order to ensure that they smell like the toxic runoff from a reservoir polluting multinational chemical plant and not like a human being.’
Adverts, fuckin’ adverts:
yes please, I’ll have four. Does it come in puce and smell of piss?
Merry fuckin’ Christmas x
Bards of Bugger All
After a 50 date national tour promoting The Antipoet’s ‘Bards of Bugger All’ album throughout the summer, Paul (together with Ian) is now putting the finishing touches to album number 6, ‘We Play For Food’ with an expected release date of March 2017.
‘The jewel in Larmer’s crown, The Antipoet, this festival’s heroes the beatrapping duo. It’s unexpectedly delightful things like this that make Larmer Tree what it is.’
– Bournemouth Echo July 2016
‘We want Antipoet next year, otherwise I’m sure there’ll be a riot from the audience.’
– Anna Harriot, Arts Programmer Larmer Tree Festival July 2016
The Lyrical Cabaret will re emerge on 30th October and 18th December at Coco (Perch & Co), Watford Road, Croxley Green, Herts WD3 3BZ, both with excellent line ups to make up for us buggering off for the summer.
Tea Shop Tales kicked off a new season with a new venue; the rather lovely ‘Queens Wood Cafe,’ Muswell Hill Road, N103JP on 8th September, and continues on the Second Thursday of every month from here on.
So far so good!
A great festival season thus far: Fronting The Odds at Rickmansworth Festival, taking The Antipoet to Glastonbury’s muddiest festival for many a year, the deliciousness of playing alongside peacocks at Larmer Tree Festival, performing spoken work together with fronting Polkabilly Circus at Wisley Arts Festival and there’s still another eleven dates before the end of the festival season!
Larmer Tree Festival Photo by Sebastian Scholfield. Rickmansworth Festival by Elliott O’Brart.
Summer Festival Dates
Some gorgeous festivals lined up for 2016. In addition to, ‘The Antipoet’ listings above, Paul will also be reading at Wisley Festival on 17th July as well as being joined there by Polkabilly Circus for a musical interlude to a summer of spoken word. More music sees Paul fronting, ‘The Odds’ at The Aston Clinton Beer Festival on 30th July. For details see events diary and have a fantastic summer!
THANK YOU!
After a couple of weeks of running around the country, as the gobby half of The Antipoet, Paul would like to thank Hammer and Tongue for having them at all of their wonderful events as part of, ‘The Bards of Bugger All’ tour 2016. Watch this space for some exciting festival news, should be an excellent summer!
The Bards of Bugger All! – Listen and Download
The Antipoet have been busy and their latest album ‘Bards of Bugger All!’ is now available for your listening and downloading pleasure.
Visit the album shop here and grab your very own physical copy or digital download (or even send it as a gift)
Bardaid
The first Bardaid Book drop of 2016 was delivered by Paul today to the Hunton Bridge Community Library, Kings Lodge, Hunton Bridge, Herts. For more information about our free poetry book donations please go to: http://rrrants.org/bardaid This cache contained the latest books by Paul Eccentric, Rob Auton, Danni Antagonist, Paul Lyalls, Tina Sederholm, Dan Simpson, Julie Mullen, Mel Jones, Mark Niel, Alan Wolfson along with anthologies from Rrrants and Bang Said The Gun.