Okay, so thanks very much to everyone that attended our SOLD OUT first Wave If You’re Really There event. A box of Roses also to John O’Shea and his brother for all the tech and emotional support, Gary Daly for his drawings in the kitchen,  Scott Spencer for decor, Deellyn 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.

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.

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…

Plus new work from Ross G. Sutherland and Nathan Jones

October 18th – theme: Funeral

Black clothes, 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).

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.

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.

November 29th – theme: Future 8002

Neon platforms, Hyperlink blouses and Digital trousers

Infinite 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 exactly”…

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

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

AND Nina Jones will be showing a brand new choral music peice….

CHECK OUR CRAZY FLAVOUR… flavour flavour flavour…

The music will be announced shortly… O my!