Chill Pill Poet 'Adam Kammerling' Don't Flop battle / Chill Pill updates

Speaking of Chill Pill, we're piloting a live radio show, showcasing Spoken Word at The Roundhouse on 13th February. Be part of our audience!

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http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/chill-pill-connects

We also have a mega line up for our next Albany show on 28th February which includes David J, Chicago poet Kristiana Rae Colón and Ross Sutherland, as well as six open mic slots.

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http://www.thealbany.org.uk/event_detail/916/Spoken-Word/Chill-Pill

Chill Pill's biggest show yet! Soweto Kinch, Jive Poetic & Sabrina Mahfouz plus Open Mic!

Our next Chill Pill (27th Sep at The Albany) is set to be the biggest show yet! Here are the names gracing our stage.

Soweto Kinch

Soweto Kinch is a British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper. He has won numerous accolades including the Rising Star Award at the 2002 BBC Jazz Awards and the prestigious White Saxophone prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2003 and 2007 he won the MOBO prize for Best Jazz Act. In the same year his debut album Conversations With The Unseen was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, but Kinch lost to grime MC Dizzee Rascal. The year 2004 saw Kinch win two BBC Radio Jazz Awards: Best Instrumentalist and Best Band, along with the Peter Whittingham Award for Jazz Innovation.

Sabrina Mahfouz

Sabrina Mahfouz is a poet, playwright, performer and person. Her debut solo show Dry Icewas nominated for The Stage Award for Best Solo Performance at Edinburgh 2011 and called ‘in a different league…astonishing’ by The Times. Her new play One Hour Only won the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Award and will be presented by Made From Scratch at Underbelly in Edinburgh 2012. 

Jive Poetic

Host of one of the biggest spoken word venues in the world, (The Nuyorican Poets Cafe' in New York), Jive Poetic is featuring at Chill Pill! 

Jive Poetic is a poet, teacher and DJ, he has toured Australia, Canada & Europe. His CD Perpedenctive and poetry music videos and have received rave reviews and he is published and translated in several anthologies.
 




Chill Pill poets Simon Mole, Raymond Antrobus (Feat: Alex Patten) & Mista Gee will also be performing on the night.

There are also 6 Open Mic slots on a first come first served basis.

PRE-BOOK NOW! http://www.thealbany.org.uk/event_detail/845/Spoken-Word/Chill-Pill

Box Office Number - 0208 692 4446

Monday - Friday 9am-9pm, Saturday 10am-5pm or until show time on performance days, Sunday times vary.

CHILL PILL GOES IN... With UK Hip-Hop legend Mystro & UK's Young Storyteller Of The Year, Rachel Rose Reid!

If you haven't seen this video you MUST! Mystro's 2011 wrap up.



In short, Mystro is a UK Hip-Hop Legend. He blew up in 1999 alongside Skinnyman,Rodney P & Blak Twang, and during the 'Golden Era' of UK Hip-Hop that followed he had a quality album released on Low Life Records. He has been on the grind, working and touring around the world since. I remember my early teens was all about DJ Skully on Kiss 100, it was my UK Hip-Hop fix and Mystro was a regular on his playlist. On March 29th he's one of our featured acts at Chill Pill at The Albany Theatre... Alongside the amazing...



Rachel Rose Reid is an award winning storyteller and as you can see in the video, she is widely acknowledge as a tour de force on the Spoken Word/Theatre & Storytelling World. She will be performing with the amazing REC Choir.

Hopefully you'll agree we're breaking new ground with the mix of styles on the bill - we're excited to see how it all comes together!

There are also six Open Mic slots available, arrive early to bag yours...

TICKET'S ON SALE NOW

http://www.thealbany.org.uk/event_detail/744/Spoken-Word/Chill-Pill

The Art Of Hosting.

Tonight will be my second ever shot at hosting a Spoken Word show. I've come to realize that hosting is an art within itself, within that is the art to stand in front of people and be... well, yourself.

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This gig I'm doing tonight is rather hastily put together as I've only had 2 days to prepare it without ANY budget.

I think the first thing I'll say when I open the show will be "honestily, I have no idea what to expect tonight... It might be like a really bad, low budget B movie that's so shit its good"

:-)

This is the audience I stood (and unprofessionally sat) before last time I hosted. It was a show put together for Freshers students at Westminister University, it was a total success.





Will let you know how the show tonight goes.x