21st March, Chill Pill perform at Hit The Ode (Birmingham)
22nd March, Chill Pill & Anthony Anaxagorou perform at Waxing Lyrical in Brighton
Very much looking forward to performing at these nights across the UK this March. Other news is my book of poems, 'Shape & Disfigurement' is now being stocked at Southbank's Poetry Library, you can order a copy for your own library here -
Book and quote 'EARLY BIRD' for your discounted tickets to 'The Big One' on May 23rd with poets from some of the best regular poetry nights in London. Featuring:
Mike Skinner from The Streets has just released a free mixtape and on that he has included a spoken word accapella track. Could this be an indication that Mike is finally standing up as a poet in his own right?
not that he's never been one... I just remember when I fell in love with The Streets all those years ago and I'd hear people say "he's only chatting... pay me to talk over bloody beats, I sound better than that!"
A lot of people didn't get it but I really connected with it... well, a lot of people did.. he's a top selling artist.
I saw The Streets live and to the crowd Mike said rather apologetically "I'm not the best Rapper in the world but I love what I do!"
which kind of disheartened me because it was almost like he was apologising for being an artist who puts substance over style.
Here you can download The Streets Mixtape and I've included other Spoken Word artists who you need on your radar.
also check out one of my favorite bands headed by a poet - Benin City. They'll be doing big things this year. Also, check out an album that should go down in Spoken Word history - The Short Story Long by Shane Koyczan.
Fianlly, Kate Tempest has a new album coming out and this video by the brilliant poet 'John Berkavitch' is testimony of things to come.
