Okay, thanks very much to everone that attended our SOLD out first Wave If You’re Really There event… thanks also to… John O’Sheo and his brother for all the tech and emotional support, Gary Daly for his drawings in the kitchen,  Scott Spenser for decor, Delyn and my Tali, Kate and Beth for all their help, and to the clergy for showing up and loving every blasphemous minute of it!

NOW, onto business!

We’ve (nearly) confirmed these headline poetry acts for the next three WIYRT events. Tickets are not on sale until mid-August tho, so keep your knickers on and wait and see what we’ve got planned on the music and arts side until you wet all in them. 

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September 20th – theme: Marriage
Dress nice, but not so much you outshine the bride.

David J . . . “The Vocal Pugalist” our number 1 priority act finally got in touch and confirmed his attendence. This guy is THE SHIT. Check this video, and tell me people aren’t going to cry when he does this shizzle in the church.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/david-j-at-fiascotv-july-03/28267893

Luke Kennard . . . Was going to be our solo headline act for this night, until David J got in touch. Now he’s sharing the top spot. Luke was the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Forward Prize. That means he is a genius. And he’s a really charming performer too, there’ some sample poems, random big-ups from the nationals and an mp3 here…

http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713073.htm

Plus new work from Ross G. Sutherland and Nathan Jones
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October 18th – theme: Funeral
Blacks, shiny shoes, muted tones and glum faces

Byron Vincent . . . as recommended by just about everyone ‘on the scene’, Byron is a funny manc with a dire outlook. Aren’t they all tho! Check some of his rabid stand-up poetry here (I love ‘Bob’ on the music player):

http://www.myspace.com/byron_vincent

Salena Godden . . . our brilliant, filthy, sexy, boozy bitch from London. She brought the house down when she performed at Korova for us a few years ago, and since then she’s had a massive book deal for her autobiography off the biggest publisher in the country Harper Colins.

“Salena is a tour de force. Her reading was immaculate, witty, crafted punk and ignorant of the petty poses that are perfected by the style merchants of what is apparently a scene. Rather than perfecting a style Salena is style. Like most artists of note - there is noone like her” Lemn Sissay

There’s nothing really of her poetry on the internet that does her poetry justice, but you can listen to her band here, and you get a bit of an idea about the content:

http://www.myspace.com/wearesaltpeter

ALSO
Lizzie Nunnery’s play, Death in Upper Duke Street… Lizzie’s play Intemperance, was produced at the Liverpool Everyman in October 2007 and published by Faber. She was one of four writers on Unprotected (Liverpool Everyman, Traverse Edinburgh, BBC Radio 4, 2006) which won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. She is Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Liverpool Everyman for 2008. She is also a singer songwriter performing regularly around the UK, and her acclaimed second EP Hungry was released in March of this year. The title track of the EP is included in the compilation, Liverpool Music Today, released by Ultimate Fake Records on June 30th 2008.

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November 29th – theme: Future 8002
Neon platforms, Hyperlink blouses and Digital trousers

Infinte Lives . . . a collection of songs, stories and poetry inspired by video games, past and present. Half literary recital, half episode of Gamesmaster. Nuff said. Or perhaps not? How about this:

“November Infinite Lives will be ace cakes.” Ross Sutherland.

Watch other shit from Ross Sutherland, Chris Hicks, Joe Dunthorne and Tim Clare on myspace. Listen to The Girl from Donkey Kong on here “in donkey kong there is a level based in a pie factory / and I think you’ll agree it mirrors out relationship exactaly”…

http://www.myspace.com/homeworkldn

AND I will also be presenting a new bionic music collaboration with painist Sarah Nicolls

http://www.sarahnicolls.com/

basically she thinks she can piss all over Wave Machines….

AND Nina Jones will be showing a brand new choral music peice….
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CHECK OUR CRAZY FLAVOUR… flavour flavour flavour…
The music will be announced shortly… O my!

*TICKET ONLY EVENT, click here to buy

Sat 7th June | St Bride’s Church, Percy Street, Liverpool | 7-11pm | £5*

The ‘Anticlimax’ issue aside, we’ve been a bit quiet so far this year. That’s because all of Team Mercy have been locked away in a church every Friday night - with Wave Machines and the minds of some of Liverpool’s most respected directors, curators, musicians, digiticians, designers and artists - drinking warm cans of beer and getting all excited. And waiting for a letter from the Arts Council.

The good news, is that said letter arrived and we have the go-ahead to run a series of 4 events that utilise the singular atmosphere and spectacular surroundings of Liverpool’s only church-that-looks-like-a-temple (St Bride’s) to our own devious ends - Wave If You’re Really There is our mission to present the best live literature, music and performance art in an environment conducive to having a brilliant time and telling your cousins how mad Liverpool is … amen to that.

Featuring

WAVE MACHINES (Chess Club)

‘The cleanest and purest of sublime art-pop’ - Art Rocker

www.myspace.com/mywavemachine

SLOW CLUB (Moshi Moshi)

‘Gut-wrenchingly beautiful’ - The Guardian

www.myspace.com/slowclub

UNIVOCALISM Tim Clare / Joe Dunthorne / Ross Sutherland

Three of the UK’s most acclaimed writers perform their lecture and series of poems written in only one vowel.

www.joedunthorne.com

www.myspace.com/timclarepoet

www.aisle16.co.uk

THE BELL Nathan Jones / Wave Machines

Brand new collaborative poetry, music and digital art piece from your hosts.  The freshest perspective in spoken word since the invention of the soapbox.

www.myspace.com/fictionpoetics

Plus: THE INVESTIGATION TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THERE AND ISN’T THERE

Performance art project by Kathryn Cooper. 

www.kathryncooper.com

www.coopersmarket.com

Plus: Visuals by Phil Communication and Emily Voelker

Music from Igor Hax (binary jam)

and Art Direction by Scott Spencer

We’re so massively excited about these shows, and we hope you will be too. Entry will only be open to ticket holders, which you can buy online from this site (we will deliver them to you within a week of the show) or in person from one of our shady operatives - just give us a call in the office on 0151-708-9781 or bug Nathan on 07877-660-150 and we’ll come and hunt you down.

Please note: due to the nature of these shows, there will be no late entry - doors close at 8pm, so make sure you arrive by then.

Future WIYRT dates - a Biennial triple-header, 6th September / 18th october / 29th November

The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool / Saturday 15 March / 3-3:30pm

Nathan and Wave Machines shizzle, with extra juice

After our sell-out performance at Tate Liverpool a couple of weeks ago, Mercy’s band of the moment are back with their awe-inspiring interpretations of Nathan Jones’ poetry.

Synth-stanza, vibra-verse, shouty-shouty, ballarinadry, lyrithmical sonnicts, cymbolic villanellectro…? you got it. Ha! Villanellectro.

PLUS live digital visuals from Phil Communication & Emily Voelker

Anyway, it’s right in the middle of the day at Bluecoat’s openning, in the small performance room… get there a little bit early to hear us pissing about with the speakers and reserve your seat with a leaflet.

O, and there will be copies of the latest Mercy around too.

Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock / Thursday 28 Feb / 6-9pm / FREE

Just to remind you that the shit is going down in Tate this evening. IT’S ON.

Ross G has arrived safely in town with his bag of paranoias, Wave Machines have been packing away their equipment since early yesterday morning, DJ Marcus Soukup AKA Igor Hax is practising his swirling eye-brow trick, Mercy’s AntiClimax Issue arrived last night, damp with disgusting ink, Phil and Emily have figured out how to get the NO INPUT screen showing on the projector, and Carl Rohumaa is speeding up the M5 making explosion noises with his cheeks as I type.

We’re very excited. And so, it seems, is everyone else. There’s a whole plethora of filmcrews and journalists, artizans, friends, countrybumpkins, fatcats and gossipmongers coming down for the free drink and to catch a glimpse of Joe’s gigglesack, and we already have confirmation that my mother and father will be on the scene. Be on your best behavior everyone.

Here’s the line-up one more time:

In the Lecture Theatre:

6:00 Virgin Shroud 1993, Dorothy Cross

7:00-8:00 Camelia e le Dragon, Niki de Saint Phalle

In the Café:

7:00 Kaya

7:30-9:00 Mercy Launch, w/Binary Jam DJs

In the Foyer:

7:50 & 8:50 Guitar and Pyro, Carl Rohumaa

In the Hospitality Suite:

8:00 It Looks Like You’re Writing a Letter, Ross Sutherland
8:30-9:00 Live to Learn the Lanaguage, Nathan Jones w/ Wave Machines, Phil Communication and Emily Voelker

plus The Alternative Turner Prize exhibition and announcements

Don’t be late.

Be at ‘Late at TATE’.

sorry.

xx

Fri 7 December | St Bride’s Church, Percy St, Liverpool | 8pm-LATE | £5

St Bride’s Church is well the best surviving Neoclassical church in Liverpool. It looks like it belongs in an Ancient Grecian souvenir snow dome – fronted as it is by 6 huge iconic columns. You can’t miss it.  Inside, there is an amazing renaissance-style stained glass window and below that, on Friday 7th December, you will find some of the best entertainment this side of the shepherds watching their flocks.

Liverpool’s most exciting super-group, THE GRAND ARCHITECTS, will be returning with their unique brand of stomping country-rock, after a shutter-rattling debut at our last outing at Mello Mello in October exploded our attendance figures past all expectations.  Plus, in the tradition of Mercy’s groundbreaking series of shows, THE KAMBOURINES will be previewing material from their eagerly awaited new EP. RADIOPLASTIC will also be returning to cement the reputation they earned as the late highlight of our Halloween show, this time hunkered over the wheels of steel, passing out unwrapped gifts and possibly talking in deep sexy voices like Santa Claus’s.

Of course, there will be the usual preachy nonsense and bleeding-heart mantras from the Fiction poetry crew, and all that disco rave rhumba shizzle from the Mercy DJ Squad, along with cake and an amazing selection of surprises which we don’t even know about ourselves!  Get your knees out from between those pews and do the good lord boogie.

Lineup:

The Grand Architects

The Kambourines

John Smith

DJ’s Radioplastic & the Mercy DJ Squad

Hosted by the Fiction Clergy

www.myspace.com/thegrandarchitects

www.myspace.com/thekambourines

www.myspace.com/johnacousticsmith

www.myspace.com/elasticaudio