Short notice and all.

I'm the featured artist at this month's Howltearoa.  So for all you Wellingtonians, it's on Monday night starting at 7:30PM at the Southern Cross on Abel Smith St.  It's open mic for the first half, so anyone who wants a go can sign up.  Then it's me on for the second half doing my spoken word thing.  I might even bust out an ( Read more... )

I just got back from an open air spoken word gathering in Basin Reserve that I only just heard about this afternoon at the Poetry Studio. It was quite enjoyable. I ate chocolate, had a few wines with some bloke from Dunedin, listened to Graeme lecture me on cricket and the history of Basin Reserve right from the year dot, and performed my rant ( Read more... )

Here's some footage from the second Jonathan Edward Scape School Of Spoken Word show.  I lost my slam title to an English lass called Leah this time 'round.  She was a very worthy opponent and thoroughly deserved to win.  Come the second round and her rapid fire impro styles I knew I didn't stand much of a chance with my typically stumbling booze ( Read more... )